End-Mill Cutting Tools

Precision cutting tools such as end mills represent especially difficult process control challenges for metrology systems because they require extremely precise features, dimensions, and cutting surfaces in order to deliver consistent results when deployed within demanding machining applications.

In addition to needing extremely high levels of three-dimensional accuracy, metrology systems often have to incorporate a rotary 4th axis for ensuring accuracy of the complex curves and contours that are critical features of many cutting tools. All rotary axis functions must be smoothly integrated within the overall metrology system and be fully programmable by the system-level software.