Software Tool Used for Simulation of Metal Spinning Process for Complex Rotational Parts

Metal spinning on NC machine-tools is a very flexible and complex manufacturing method which has a high efficiency for small series of parts and prototype parts. The algorithms used for calculating the roller trajectory during the metal spinning process are usually complicated and hard to apply into production. This article presents an original application developed using Visual LISP that can be used for calculating and then simulating and testing the roller trajectory in the case of manufacturing rotational complex parts by metal spinning. The simulation prevents any errors that can occur during the process of manufacturing before the parts are actually put into production.