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there are industry specific requirements and specialties which make the “one
fits all” impossible. The custom setup will surprise many engineers which have
been reluctant in the past to look at cutter consolidations because of the ex-
pected sacrifice of the required peak performance.

Figure 7: Flow chart with consolidation logic

The consolidation begins with choosing the different job names which are to be
the subject of the consolidation and entering them into the user interface
screen “1” of the consolidation program. Further input is the specification of the
consolidation task “2”. The following options are available:

• Use one of the given jobs as master, but allow the program to select this
master, program will select different jobs for the pinion and gear master if
required for better results

• Force program to use one particular job as master

• Allow program to create the optimal virtual master job

• Pressure angles from master or average pressure angle is calculated

• Cutting edge curvature from master or average curvature radius is
calculated

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