“High Speed Micromilling of Acrylic”

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Hyderabad Campus
Introduction

400 μm tungsten carbide

end mill

Pocket Size: 2.5mm

Micro-heat exchanger [Filiz et al. (2007)]
Spiral channel for micro-fluidic
application
Wall height: 500micron
Thickness: 100 micron
Micro Fluidic channels Source: www.nist.gov
(Filiz et al 2007)

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Details of High Speed Micromilling Machine

Parameter Description/Value
Make MicroMach
XYZ table Stepper motor controlled
Granite frame with maximum 100
Worktable mm x 100 mm travel length in X & Y
respectively
Maximum
80,000 rpm
Speed
Lubrication Mixture of air and oil
(b)

(a) Fig. (a) HSMC, (b) Details of the Machining Centre

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Points to Remember Before Machining
• Check for power and compressor connections to ensure that there
is supply of compressed air to machine
• Ensure lubricant is flowing through spindle (explained in video)
• Run spindle at 2000-3000 rpm for one minute before machining to
make sure that sufficient lubricant is flowing at required pressure
of 4.5 bar
• Once the software is opened press “Reset” then “Referral Home”
button, so that machine gets its home position (explained in video)
• CNC code or G-codes can be manually written or extracted from
any commercial software, but before machining check for its
compatibility (explained in video)
• We can write entire program or manually machine using MDI
command (Manual Data input)
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 Code Generation
• Commercial softwares like CREO, CNC code generators, CNC
simulators etc. can be used to generate codes for required profile
• We can verify our manual codes using available online simulators
like https://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/

Write your Simulation

code here of tool path
and
generated
profile

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Lets take a look at Micro-tool……

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Some Machined Surface – Acrylic Plate

Profile-1 Profile-2

• All these profiles were produced

using cutting tool of 1mm
diameter at 35,000 rpm with
6mm/min feed rate.
• Depth of cut was 800 microns

Profile-3

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Lets watch machining of Acrylic……

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 Thank You
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Hyderabad Campus