Machine tool modeling. Presentation
Machine tools - Main organs

Figure 3 is a schematic representation of a conventional machine (in this case, a milling machine) machining a workpiece. Cutting forces act at the workpiece-tool interface, and the lines of force generated are looped through the machine's various components:

• the tool ;

• the spindle ;

• spindle bearings ;

• the spindle body ;

• ARIES;

• the Y slide between ram and column ;

• column;

• the base ;

• the feed screw Z ;

• slide Z ;

• carriage Z ;

• slide X (perpendicular to plane YZ ) ;

• table ;

• workpiece holder assembly ;

• the part to be machined ;

each...