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"Fishhead" Aerospace Part

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This is a sample five-axis test part provided by Airbus and manufactured via high-speed and conventional machining at the IMTS 2018 and other demonstrations.

The STEP-NC file includes geometry for starting piece, final piece, and tools, toolpaths for roughing, finishing, and inspections, tool parameters, tolerances, and datums.

  • Fishhead_DMG_with_hardness.stpnc [22mb]

    2019-10-07 - AP238 description of five axis machining process with tilted fixture used on DMG machine at IMTS 2018. Updated with material hardness data.

    RDF Index: Fishhead_DMG.ttl [2.6mb]

    RDF Schema: arm.rdfs [142k]

Older Versions

The following roughing and finishing plans use high speed machining [HSM] techniques. fishhead_bordeaux_opt_v3_20080201.238[872k]
fishhead_bordeaux_v2_finishing_20080206.238[700k]

The following was first machined in 2017. fishhead_dallas_sandvik.stpnc [6.4mb]