A system and method for making made-to-order architectural millwork of custom dimensions; including the design of wood joints and a system for deploying them within the overall structural design of individual architectural millwork units, as well as methods for online design and ordering, automated writing of machine code, robotic part preparation, and simplified on-site installation. With the automation and generation of digital code for manufacturing custom architectural components, this method makes the formation of distributed manufacturing centers possible. Through this method and with minimum re-tooling and/or training, these centers are able to produce custom millwork more efficiently and effectively than traditional custom millwork woodshops.

The step for performing machine learning includes acquiring shape data; acquiring geometric information for each of a plurality of machining faces; acquiring a tool path pattern selected for the machining faces from among a plurality of tool path patterns; and performing machine learning by using the geometric data for known workpieces and the tool path patterns wherein the input is the geometric information for the machining faces and the output is the tool path pattern for the machining faces. The step for generating a new tool path includes: acquiring shape data for the workpiece; acquiring geometric information for each of the plurality of machining faces of the workpiece to be machined; and generating a tool path pattern for each of the plurality of machining faces on the workpiece on the basis of the results of the machine learning using the geometric information of the workpiece to be machined.

A method, an apparatus and a device for generating a ruled surface machining path, and a medium relate to the field of numerical control machining technologies. The method includes: acquiring each target ruled surface in a three-dimensional diagram of a target workpiece to be machined; generating a mathematical model of each target ruled surface according to each target ruled surface; determining a current machining speed according to the mathematical model and preset machining process parameters; and calculating machining path data corresponding to the target ruled surface according to the current machining speed. The technical problems of large errors and lack of control and compensation on natural defects of “soft knife” machining in the existing ruled surface machining method are solved. The beneficial effects of reducing errors of ruled surface machining and improving control and compensation on the natural defects of “soft knife” machining are obtained.

A knife assembly for cutting a substrate during relative motion between the knife and the substrate, the assembly including a knife having a distal knife blade and a proximal knife shaft attached to a holder rotatable about a first axis perpendicular to the substrate to define a cut direction angle. The holder is also configured to rotate the knife blade about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis to form a notch angle relative to the first axis. The notch angle is preferably automatically infinitely adjustable within a range of angles. The holder may also, optionally, be configured to rotate the knife blade about a third axis perpendicular to a plane defined by the knife blade to adjust an angle of attack of the knife blade relative to the substrate.

A system and method for making made-to-order architectural millwork of custom dimensions; including the design of wood joints and a system for deploying them within the overall structural design of individual architectural millwork units, as well as methods for online design and ordering, automated writing of machine code, robotic part preparation, and simplified on-site installation. With the automation and generation of digital code for manufacturing custom architectural components, this method makes the formation of distributed manufacturing centers possible. Through this method and with minimum re-tooling and/or training, these centers are able to produce custom millwork more efficiently and effectively than traditional custom millwork woodshops.

Systems, devices, and methods including: receiving, by an interpreter component having a processor with addressable memory, a first state of a tool of a computer numerical control (CNC) machine; determining, by the interpreter component, a reward and a value of the reward based on the received first state, where the reward is at least one of: positive and negative; transmitting, by the interpreter component, a set of information comprising the determined reward and the value of the reward to an agent component; performing, by the agent component, at least one action to generate a tool path and to proceed to a second state, where the second state is combined with the first state; and determining, by the agent component, the generated tool path based on the determined reward and value associated with the at least one action.

A method for generating a machining cutter path for a curved deep cavity surface is provided, which relates to the technical field of generation of machining cutter paths for curved deep cavity surface to solve the problems of low machining efficiency and high rejection rate of thin-walled parts with curved deep cavity surface due to complex cutter paths in the prior art. The method includes the following steps: extracting a boundary contour of a curved deep cavity surface and generating an initial cutter path; considering a machine tool limitation constraint; considering a non-interference constraint; considering a non-chattering constraint, and determining a feasible region of the cutter axis vector with the consideration of the non-chattering constraint; determining feasible region of the cutter axis vector for each cutter location point; and outputting an optimized cutter path.

A tool path generation method for a bidirectional cutting edge tool, comprising: first obtaining a driving line and an auxiliary driving line of a contour, and discretizing the driving line to obtain tool position driving points; obtaining a tool axis vector according to a rule plane of the driving points and the auxiliary driving line; and then, calculating a tool position point according to geometric dimensions of the tool so as to obtain a tool path of a machining contour of the bidirectional cutting edge tool. The problems of fiber delamination and fluffing, burr generation, and the like of the contour of a machined part can be avoided, and the machining quality of a contour surface is improved, and the low-cost machining of parts can be efficiently achieved.

An automated computer-implemented method for generating commands for controlling a computer numerically controlled milling machine to fabricate a machined object from a workpiece, the machined object being configured to facilitate subsequent finishing into a finished object, the method including defining a surface of the finished object, defining an offset surface defining an inner limiting surface of the machined object, defining a scallop surface defining an outer limiting surface of the machined object and calculating a tool path for the milling machine which produces multiple step-up cuts in the workpiece resulting in the machined object, wherein surfaces of the machined object all lie between the inner limiting surface and the outer limiting surface and the number of step-up cuts in the workpiece and the areas cut in each of the step-up cuts are selected to generally minimize the amount of workpiece material that is removed from the workpiece.

A method is provided for material-removing machining when moving a tool of a machine tool along a tool path, including providing a workpiece comprising a first workpiece portion and a second workpiece portion adjacent to the first workpiece portion, wherein the tool path comprises a first path section comprising path segments adapted to a geometry of the first workpiece portion, and a second path section comprising path segments adapted to a geometry of the second workpiece portion. The method comprises determining the first path section to cover the first workpiece portion except for a first edge section, determining the second path section to cover the second workpiece portion except for a second edge section, and determining a transition section of the tool path to cover the first edge section and the second edge section, such that the first and second path sections and the transition section cover the entire first and second workpiece portions.