The invention relates to the technical field of
tool path planning, and discloses a combined curved surface constant residual height fixed-axis
machining tool path generation method and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, discretizing a combined curved surface into a triangular mesh, and calculating the height of a collision-free tool location point above a
machining part through adaptive
quadtree sampling; forming a net-shaped structure of a discrete three-dimensional
configuration space; projecting the
processing area to the space for
cutting, and determining an effective
processing area; taking the boundary of the area as an
initial seed polygon, outwards expanding line segments of the boundary into a cylindrical surface in a limited range, intersecting the cylindrical surface with the
configuration space to generate a next circle of
equidistant cutter location points, connecting the
equidistant cutter location points to form a new cutter path, and iterating the process until the
processing area is filled. According to the method,
tool path selfing is fundamentally eradicated, the method is completely independent of the normal direction of the curved surface, the method is not sensitive to the
model quality, the interference-free and equal-residue-height high-quality tool path can be generated in a full-automatic and high-robustness mode, and the reliability, efficiency and quality of complex curved surface
numerical control programming are greatly improved.