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A CNC machine tool interpolator for surfaces of cross-sectional design Sotiris L. Omiroua,_, Andreas C. Nearchou Abstract A machining strategy for milling a particular set of surfaces, obtained by the technique of cross-sectional design is proposed. The surfaces considered are formed by sliding a Bezier curve (profile curve) along another Bezier curve (trajectory curve). The curves are located in perpendicular planes. The method employs a three-axis CNC milling machine equipped with suitable ball-end cutter and is based on the locus-tracing concept. 1. Introduction In the automobile, aerospace and appliances industry, a variety of functional or even aesthetic free-form surfaces are engaged by engineers and designers to achieve the desired performance of a product. The machining of such complex geometries is a basic problem in computer-aided manufacturing since the available NC machines are constrained, by their software, to linear and circular motions. In this paper we deal with a set of surfaces obtained with this design technique. More particularly we use Bezier curves to define the shapes of both the profile and the trajectory. Bezier curves as free-form curves are a powerful designing tool. They need only a few points to define a large number of shapes, hence their wide use in CAD systems. The principle for generating the considered surfaces is shown in Fig. 1. The curves are located in perpendicular planes. The upper end of the profile curve lies on the trajectory curve which is a plane contour. Fig. 2 shows a sample surface obtained by the above-mentioned technique. This paper, following the present intention of research engineers to take advantage of the hardware capabilities of modern CNC systems, proposes a real-time surface interpolator for machining the specified surfaces on Fig. 1. Surface is generated by sliding the profile curve along the trajectory curve. Fig. 2. Sample surface obtained by cross-sectional design vertical three-axis CNC milling mach