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Cutting Tools
Tool materials, coatings, ISO designation decoders, geometry and a wear-diagnosis guide: the most searched part of the atlas.
- Live
- 3
- Pages planned
- 59
- Subsections
- 7
- Release phase
- Phase 1 first three months
Live pages
- 04 Tool materialsISO 513 — the P M K N S H classificationHow ISO 513 sorts carbide, ceramic, diamond and cBN cutting materials by application. The six main groups and their colours, what the numbers 01 to 50 mean, the letter symbols such as HW, HC and CA, and how to read a designation like HC-P10.
- 04 CoatingsCVD and PVD coatings on cutting toolsWhat the thin hard layer on a carbide insert does, and how the two processes differ: CVD, hot and thick, with tensile stress and a honed edge; PVD, cooler and thinner, with compressive stress and a sharp edge. The numbers the sources give, and where they differ.
- 04 Tool geometryRake, clearance and wedge anglesThe three angles of a cutting edge in the section square to it: how the rake angle γ, the clearance angle α and the wedge angle β are defined, why they add up to 90°, what a more positive or a negative rake does, what the clearance is for, the clearance letter in the insert code, and the honed edge.
Section map
The subsections of this section and the number of pages planned in each. Pages go live in section order, all on the same template.
- 4.1Tool materials1/11
- 4.2Coatings1/7
- 4.3ISO codes and decoders0/8
- 4.4Tool geometry1/8
- 4.5Tool types0/12
- 4.6Abrasives and grinding wheels0/7
- 4.7Wear diagnosis and tool management0/6
In production 3 of 59 planned pages are live. The figure on each subsection is pages live / pages planned.