Cover of Five-Axis Thinking by Li Wenhao

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Five-Axis Thinking

Illustrated silhouette portrait for Li Wenhao by Li Wenhao

What the tool can reach, what the fixture blocks, and what the machine will quietly do anyway.

Published
February 28, 2023
Publisher
Northgate Press
Pages
448
ISBN
978-1-946001-04-8

Five axes do not make a part easier; they make a different set of mistakes possible. Li Wenhao sets out the thinking that has to happen before a programmer touches the post-processor: what the tool can reach, what the fixture blocks, and what the machine will quietly do anyway.

Includes a chapter of parts that went wrong, with the drawings that caused it.

Illustrated silhouette portrait for Li Wenhao

About the author

Li Wenhao

Lathe hand turned five-axis programmer; writes about the geometry a shop actually uses.

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