Milling, milling cutters
By VAIBHAV TAILOR

⦁ Milling is the machining process of using
rotary cutters to remove material from a work
piece by advancing in a direction at an angle
with the axis of the tool.
⦁ Milling cutters
◦ Milling cutters are cutting tools typically used in
milling machines or machining centres to perform
milling operations

⦁ Plain or slab milling
⦁ Face milling
⦁ End milling
⦁ Side milling
⦁ Angular milling
⦁ Form milling
⦁ Straddle milling
⦁ Gang milling
⦁ Gear Cutting

⦁ Plain Milling, also called
Surface Milling or Slab
Milling, is milling flat
surfaces with the milling
cutter axis parallel to
the surface being
milled.

⦁ Face milling is the
milling of surfaces that
are perpendicular to
the cutter axis. Face
milling produces flat
surfaces and machines
work to the required
length. In face milling,
the feed can be either
horizontal or vertical.

⦁ A rotating cutting
tool having a
cylindrical shank with
teeth at the end,
used for machining
the faces and sides of
metal pieces and
other objects.

⦁ the process of milling
surfaces that are at
right angles to the
axis of rotation of the
cutter with a side
milling cutter.

⦁ Machining of a flat
surface at an
angle, other than a
right angle, to the
axis of revolving
cutter.

⦁ Form milling is the
process
machining
of
special
contours composed
of curves and
straight lines, or
entirely of curves, at
a single cut. This is
done with
milling
formed
cutters,
shaped to the
contour to be cut.

⦁ When two or more
parallel vertical
surfaces are
machined at a single
cut, the operation is
called straddle
milling

⦁ Gang milling is the
term applied to an
operation in which
two or more milling
cutters are mounted
on the same arbor
and used when
cutting horizontal
surfaces.

⦁ Gear cutting is any
machining process
for creating a gear
on milling machine
using gear milling
cutter.