Tools For Profile And 3D Milling | Modern Machine Shop
Dec 12, 2003· Another application for these tools is trochoidal machining. This is a milling process in which the tool path continually recrosses itself as the tool feeds through a pattern of constantradius arcs. (See illustration, below left) Squareend tools with sharp corners can only be used for trochoidal machining in cases in which the cut has no bottom.