Fabrication of the Sheet-Metal Part with Non-Horizontal End Face Based on the CNC Incremental Forming

Abstract

Aiming at the problem that current CNC incremental forming technology can’t directly manufacture the sheet-metal part with non-horizontal end face, the method that can manufacture this kind of sheet-metal part by using the equidistant tool path parallel to the sheet metal was proposed in this paper, in which the support and sheet metal was made together and sheet metal was directly fixed on the support. In addition, the equidistant tool path parallel to the sheet metal was generated using UG software and the sheet-metal part was fabricated by using vertical CNC machining center.