What is the difference brtween vertical milling machine and horizontal milling machine?

Answer 1

A "horizontal maching center" has a horizontal spindle. With a horizontal spindle, tools stick out the side of the tool holder and cut across the side of a part (workpiece). Horizontal machining centers are far more expensive than equivalent capacity vertical machines, but have several advantages. Usually the tool holder of a horizontal machine is more ridgid. Also,when machining the side of a part, metal chips fall out of the area being cut, leaving an uncluttered cutting area.

A "vertical machining center" has a vertical spindle. With a vertical spindle, tools stick straight down from the tool holder, and often cut across the top of a part. One disadvantage of vertical machining is that when tools cut across the top of a part, the metal shavings, called "chips," often pile up around the tool and interfere with the cutting action. However, vertical machining centers are more common, primarily because they are less expensive than equivalent capacity horizontal machines.

Answer 2

Main defferences between machining centers and turning centers are their machining methods.

Machining centers(miller) can be applied to machine every surface of the workpieces.Usually rotation of the milling cutter is the main motion and part shift is the feed motion.They are designed for not only cutting various plane,groove but also complex curve surface and gears.Machining centers adopt milling processes with milling cutter on the workpiece surface.This kind of machining centers hasthe advantages of high production rate.They can be applied to machine quite complex profile parts so that they are widely used in machinery manufacturing industry and repair department.

Turning centers(lathe) are mainly used for cutting rotated workpieces with turning tool.Many other tools can also be used in the lathe corresponding to different machining processes.Their applications include :machining shaft,disk and other workpieces with rovolved surface.They are the most widely used machine tools all over the world.

The common place of the two kinds of machine tools are thecontrol of cutting tool motion.They are both controlled by numeric data sent from numerical systems.

Answer 3

Axis is perpendicular to the vertical milling machine with rotary cutting blade on the workpiece.

Axis is parallel to the horizontal milling machine rotary cutting blade on the workpiece.

The horizontal milling machine is used to make gears.

1.Vertical milling machine and horizontal milling machine are different in spindles arrangement.The spindle of vertical milling machine are upright vertical arrangement,but the spindle of horizontal milling machine are parallel arrangement.

2.Vertical and horizontal milling machine are different in working range.The work table of vertical milling machine can be elevated up and down ,and its milling cutter are relatively flexible and e it used in a wide range.You can use vertical milling cutter,machining cutter and drilling head and so on.It can used on slot milling,milling plane and boring and so on.Horizontal milling machine can used that cutting tool too,but it isn't so convenience,it mainly enhance the cutting tool by rack.(It concluds:side milling cutter,flake cutter),I t can also be slot milling,milling plane and flake cutter and so on.

Vertical and horizontal milling machine are different in usage.They both have vertical milling head.Although its function and rigid isn't so strong than vertical milling machine,but it can be enough to cope with milling machine processing.It makes the overall function of horizontal milling machine stronger than vertical milling machine.Vertical milling machine have no this feature,so it can't process artifacts which suit to horizontal milling.The production rate of vertical milling machine is higher than horizontal milling machine.