Abstract

In the course of diamond turning activities on Honeywell's two-axis lathe, it became desirable to attempt to calculate the shape of the surface produced by making a purely phenomenological model of the process. It was assumed that the slide ways are truly straight, that the lead screws are perfectly regular, that the tool feed rate is quasistatic, that the shape produced is the locus of the point of contact between the tool and work. The model retains only angular misalignment errors, which are errors of machine construction, and tool offset errors, which are errors of the tool set up procedure.

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