Computerized Simulation of Enveloping Process for Different Applications
Abstract Application domain of the enveloping method is very wide and includes numerous engineering applications. The method has been widely applied for the formation of various surfaces, including gear flanks. So called ‘nondiffferential’ method for enveloping process simulation has been developed; the method makes possible adequate description of the process. The method had laid the foundation for the development of a general-purpose software package which is used for the simulation of screw surface formation by different types of cutting tools, computation of tool profile needed to machine defined screw surface, determination of the profile of a gear tooth machined by a tool with defined geometry, computation of gear contact points coordinates, and other tasks. The computer program is modular in design, with a number of common units for the description of enveloped link geometry, enveloping process simulation, motion description, and units related to the solution of specific applied tasks.