Software for designing endmills: General Industry Coverage

Courtesy of TDM Systems

TDM’s 3D Designer for End Mills software uses four individual milling cutter parts—toolholder, trunk, front side and flute—to enable a user to create the desired endmill.

Users of TDM Systems Inc.’s software for tool data management often talk about the lack of data and graphic images for designing endmills. The multiplicity of existing tools, which typically differ in detail, makes it difficult to obtain high-quality data and images. Because of the variety and complexity of endmills, the tool drawing typically had to be done by hand, which takes a lot of time to complete.

To better support its software users, TDM Systems has tackled the problem by developing the TDM 3D Designer for End Mills data generation software. The principle is simple: a user creates the desired endmill with four individual milling cutter parts that can be flexibly assembled.

The software offers the ability to design endmills with the help of graphics parameters and sample data sets from 3-D models. Utilizing the graphic models within TDM, the user can choose four distinct characteristics of an endmill and then address the various parametrics involved with the tool to quickly create an accurate representation of the desired endmill.