About The Article End Mill Cutters - And Its Various Types

End Mill Cutters

An ‘End Mill Cutter’ is a ‘Cutting Tool’ commonly used in ‘Industrial Milling’ applications regularly used in machining centers to carry out milling operations and sometimes in other machine tools. An End Mill Cutters can be used to cut in all directions; however, some cannot cut axially.

In this cutting process, Metal removal is carried out by feeding a material piece into a rotating cutter, thus removing stock & gives the desired shape to a wide variety of material pieces. The End Mill Cutters has cutting teeth on both sides and end of the mill.

End Mill Cutters are commonly used in applications such as Shape milling, Face milling, Profile milling, plunging and Tracer milling. End mills come in different shapes. The most common is ‘Ball End Mills’ and ‘Flat End Mills.’ 

In ‘Ball End Mills’ the miller will leave smaller scallop remarks for the same step over value on flat areas or sloped areas. The ‘Flat End Mills’ will cut flat areas with no scallop remark. Though, they leave a terrace-like scallop remark on non-flat surfaces.

An End Mill Cutter is used for specific application needs; they are manufactured with different length, Flutes, materials, diameters, designs, coatings, etc. 

The commonly used End Mill Cutter designs include:

1. Corner Rounding End Mills

2. Square End Mills

3. Ball End Mills

4. Finishing End Mills

5. Roughing End Mills