Difference Between CNC Lathe and CNC Milling Machine
The first thing to understand is the difference between a lathe and a milling machine, not the difference between CNC.
A lathe is a machine tool that mainly uses turning tools to turn rotating workpieces. Drills, reamers, counters, taps, dies and knurling tools can also be used on lathes for the corresponding processing. Lathes are mainly applied to the processing of shafts, disks, bushings and other parts with rotating surfaces, and are the most widely used type of machine tools in mechanical engineering and repair shops. Rotary machining machines such as milling machines and drilling machines are derived from lathes. In Hong Kong and other places in my country, some people also call it a rotary bed.
A milling machine is a machine tool that mainly uses cutters to process various surfaces of workpieces. Generally, the rotary motion of the cutter is the main motion, and the movement of the workpiece (s) is the feed motion. They can process flat surfaces, grooves, various curved surfaces, gears, etc. A milling machine is a machine that uses a cutter to sharpen workpieces. In addition to milling planes, grooves, gear teeth, threads and splined shafts, milling machines can also process more complex profiles, they are more efficient than cutting machines and are widely used in mechanical engineering and repair. A milling machine is a machine with a wide range of applications. A milling machine can process planes (horizontal planes, vertical planes), grooves (keyways, T-grooves, dovetail grooves, etc.), gear parts (gears, splined shafts, sprockets, etc.) spiral surfaces (threads, spiral grooves) and various curved surfaces. In addition, it can also be used to process the surface of a body of revolution, an internal hole and perform cutting work. milling machine is working, the workpiece is mounted on the workbench or accessories such as indexing head, the rotation of the cutter is the main movement, supplemented by the feed movement of the workbench or milling head, the workpiece can get the required surface treatment. Because it is a multi-tool interrupted cutting, the productivity of the milling machine is high. Use the milling cutter to process the workpiece. The machine that performs milling processing. In addition to milling planes, grooves, gear teeth, threads and splines. shafts, milling machines can also process more complex profiles, are more efficient than planing machines, and are widely used in mechanical engineering and repair shops.
Both types of machines use programs to determine the tool paths. This method is called the CNC method. Adding the word CNC before its name means exactly that, that is, automated processing.
