What is a turn-milling machine?

Composite processing is one of the most popular processing technologies in the field of mechanical processing in the world. It is an advanced manufacturing technology. Compound processing is to implement several different processing techniques on one machine tool. The most widely used and most difficult composite processing is turning and milling composite processing. The turning and milling compound machining center is equivalent to a combination of a CNC lathe and a machining center. Composite processing is one of the most popular processing technologies in the world in the field of mechanical processing. It is an advanced manufacturing technology. Compound processing is to implement several different processing techniques on one machine tool. The most widely used and most difficult composite processing is turning and milling composite processing. At present, most turning and milling combined processing is completed on turning centers, and ordinary turning centers only replace the ordinary turret tool holder of a CNC lathe with a turret tool holder with powered tools, and the spindle adds a C-axis function.

Due to the limitations of the turret tool holder structure and outer dimensions, the power head has small power, low rotational speed, and cannot install larger tools. This kind of turning center is mainly for turning, and the milling and drilling functions are only for some auxiliary processing. Powered tool holders are expensive, causing the cost of turning centers to remain high. Domestic ones generally sell for more than 100,000 yuan, while imported ones cost more than 200,000 yuan. Average users cannot afford them. Most of the economical turn-milling machines use the XZC axis, which adds a rotating C-axis to the chuck to achieve basic milling functions. Currently, there are many types of turn-milling composite machining center equipment on the market. WFL, DMG, Dalian Machine Tool, Taiwan Taiyu Precision Machinery, and DOOSAN (Doosan Machine Tools) all have such high-end equipment. Currently, the well-known turn-milling composite machining center software on the market includes edgecam. , UG NX and so on.