Top 8 Milling Tools for CNC Cutting

Marti Deans June 7, 2018

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CNC cutting tools are nothing new. Humans have been creating and refining tools from the first stone axes to the most cutting-edge end mills since the beginning of time. In this article, we’ll be covering the top 8 milling tools that form the backbone of every professional machining job. Before you even start thinking about feeds and speeds, you need to get a handle on these fundamentals. Of course, we can’t cover everything in one short blog, so take this as some foundational knowledge to build upon when you encounter different or specialty tools.

CNC Milling Tool Materials

Before jumping into each tool, let’s focus on what they have in common – tool material and fundamental operation. The most common materials you’ll encounter in CNC milling tools include:

Carbon Steel

This is the most inexpensive material of the bunch and includes a total of 0.6-1.5% of carbon with small amounts of manganese and silicon. You’ll typically find this material used for low-speed operations in twist drills, forming tools, milling cutters, and turning.

High-Speed Steel (HSS)

This material combines chromium, tungsten, and molybdenum to give HSS improved hardness, toughness, and wear resistance over carbon steel. HSS tools are generally more expensive than others, but they’re built to last and provide a high material removal rate for both ferrous and nonferrous materials.

Solid Carbide

This material is more resistant to wear than HSS and prone to chipping instead of wearing out evenly over time. Because of this you’ll find solid carbide used mainly in finishing applications in newer milling machines or those with less spindle wear. Typically carbide tools are made by sintering carbide with another metal, like tungsten, titanium, or tantalum, giving these tools high heat resistance and making them ideal for high-quality surface finishes.

Ceramics

Ceramics are corrosion-resistant and made from aluminum oxide and silicon nitride. Their heat and wear resistance means they can function in high heat cutting environments where other tools would not. These tools are typically ideal for cast iron, hard steels, and superalloys.

CNC Milling and Cutting Tool Fundamentals

Whether you have an HSS or carbon steel end mill, all of your tools will work the same. The principles of rotation direction, chip formation, chip load, and milling orientation will travel with you throughout your machinist career.

Rotation Direction

Every tool – except those designated as left-hand, like a left-handed tap – will rotate in a clockwise direction when viewed looking down at the part from the machine’s spindle.

End mill shown with rotation direction and machine WCS displayed.

Chip Formation

Cutting tools will remove metal from a block of material via a process call shearing. This will eject metal up through a tool’s flutes as it moves through a material.

Tool cutting edge shown shearing material such that a chip forms and shears away from the workpiece.

Chip Load

The thickness of the material ejected from a tool is called the chip load. Many CAM applications show the calculated chip load based on the selected tool parameters, spindle speed, and linear feed rate. They can also program feeds and speeds based on the desired chip load as an input. Observing the size, shape, and color of chips can help an experienced machinist adjust cutting speeds on the fly.

Diagram hsowing the chip load as athe thickness of the piece of material that engages with the cutting flute of the tool.

Climb & Conventional Milling

Conventional milling is traditionally used on manual machines, where keeping backlash to a minimum is important. In this cutting direction, the tool cuts from a small amount of material up to a larger thickness, rubbing against the material through the cut.

CNC machines, which have higher rigidity and are significantly less prone to the backlash, will use a Climb Milling process where the tool advances through material from maximum to minimum thickness. This cutting process allows the heat to leave the cut with the chip, reducing heat generation and tool wear while producing a better surface finish than conventional milling.

Two diagrams showing the difference in tool and material interaction between climb milling and conventional milling.

The Top 8 CNC Tools

#1 – End Mills

Need to start shearing away loads of material? End mills are your answer. While endmills can take many forms, they typically have sharp cutting flutes on the ends and sides and can be used in various cutting applications:

Side Milling

 

Used for machining an edge surface on a part.

Diagram showing end mill engaging in side and bottom milling.
Image courtesy of Trulife Engineered Solutions.

Face Milling

Use for machining the top face on a part.

Diagram showing face mill engaging in face milling on a block of stock
Image courtesy of Mechanical Engineering Blog.

Slot Milling

Used for machining between two edge surfaces.

Diagram of flat end mill engaging in full width slot milling.
Image courtesy of Custom Part Net.

Plunge Milling

Used for machining along the Z-axis, requires a center cutting end mill.

Image courtesy of Journal of Materials Processing Technology.

Ramping

Use for simultaneously machining in the radial and axial direction, resulting in an angular toolpath. Ramping toolpaths can be circular or linear.

Image courtesy of Harvey Performance Company.

Every end mill shares the same basic anatomy. The overall length of the tool can be cut into two sections, the shank and cut length. The shank is gripped in the tool holder, and the cut length includes features like flutes and cutting-edge teeth.

Flat end mill with sections labeled at shank and cutting length.
Image courtesy of Makezine.

Coatings on end mills increase hardness, enhance tool longevity, and allow for faster cutting speeds. The most popular coatings include:

Flat 2 flute end mills with TiN coating.
TiN-coated HSS flat end mills. Image courtesy of Champion Cutting Tool.

Center vs. Non-Center Cutting

End mills are either center cutting or non-center cutting. This is basically the tool’s ability to cut straight down into a material without requiring a pre-drilled hole. A center-cutting end mill has cutting edges that extend into the center of the tool, which allows it to plunge into a material. A non-center cutting end mill only has cutting edges on the side and requires either a pilot hole, ramping, or helical motion to plunge straight down.

Bottom view of center cutting and non-center cutting end mills.

Flutes

Every end mill includes several cutting edges that are machined into the side of the tool. These provide an easy path for ejected chips to travel along as your tool shears away at a block of material.

There are flute configurations from a single flute up to 8 or more flutes. Which one is the best? That depends on the material you want to cut and what your machine can handle. For example, cutting something like aluminum will produce large chips. Using a cutter with too many flutes will likely keep the chips from clearing effectively, causing the tool to clog and heat to build in the tool.

End mills from 2 to 8 flutes shown, with arrows denoting that fewer flutes increase chip space while more flutes are better for harder materials.
Image courtesy of Shapeoko.

Here’s a good rule of thumb – the harder the material, the more flutes you’ll want to use. This will reduce chip load and improve surface finish. Keep these considerations in mind when choosing between the most common flutes – two, three, and four:

Types of End Mills

Ball Nose

 

The end of this endmill is ball-shaped, making it ideal for 3D contour work. Their rounded ends make high quality curved surfaces.

Ball end mill in two lengths.
Image courtesy of Kennametal.

Bull Nose

This tool has a rounded corner but a flat bottom and can create a fillet on the bottom of a wall. The corner radius is less prone to breakage than the sharp corners on flat end mills, so bull nose end mills are often used for roughing.

Bull nose end mill
Image courtesy of Ingersoll.

V-bit (Chamfer)

These end mills come to a sharp point and are typically used to chamfer or break sharp edges on parts. They typically come in 90 and 60 degrees, and the tip can be sharp or ground flat. Flat

These are general-purpose end mills typically used for milling prismatic 2D features.

Flat end mill with Wheldon flat.
Image courtesy of Kennametal.

Roughing

The serrations in a roughing tip can quickly remove large amounts of material while leaving a rough finish.

Flat end mill with serrations to break chips and remove material more aggressively.
Image courtesy of Kennametal.

#2 – Face Mills

You’ll use this tool to make a flat area on a block of material. This is typically done on the top of the stock to flatten it before other milling tools are used. A face mill contains one solid body with multiple cutter inserts that can be swapped as needed. The more cutters, the faster metal can be removed.

Insert face mill with 6 teeth.
Image courtesy of MSC Direct.

#3 – Fly Cutters

Need to produce an amazing surface finish? Fly cutters can make it happen. These cutting tools move along the surface of a material in a clockwise rotation, producing an ultra-clean shine.

Fly cutter showing solid tool in holder,
Image courtesy of Sherline.

#4 – Twist Drills

Drill bits have a conical cutting point with a shaft with one or more flutes, similar to an end mill. The most common twist drills are made out of High Speed Steel (HSS) or solid carbide. Gold-colored coatings such as TiN are typically used to increase the drill’s hardness, reduce wear, and increase tool life.

Twist drill
Image courtesy of RS Components.

#5 – Center Spotting Drills

These stubby tools are used to create an accurate conic hole before drilling, which helps prevent drill bits from “walking” during operation or drilling the hole at an inaccurate location. There are also combined spotting-countersink drills that can create a screw clearance hole and countersink in one operation.

Image courtesy of Unicorn Tool.
Drill bit entering conical shaped hole left from center drill.
A drawing of the drill bit entering the cone-shaped guide hole made with a center drill—image courtesy of American Machine Tools.

#6 – Taps and Thread Mills

Taps are used to cut internal threads in a material. However, not all threads are made with a cutting process. Roll Form taps are forced into a hole, and the material is then formed around the tap. This works great for softer materials like aluminum, copper, brass, and plastics. Thread mills are similar, but can cut either internal or external threads.

Image courtesy of Pixabay.

#7 – Reamers

Reamers can expand existing holes to a specific tolerance while also adding a nice surface finish. You’ll use these to ensure a hole has an accurate roundness and diameter. Reamers require a pre-drilled hole that’s close enough in size, so it only has to remove a small amount of material.

Several reamers shown side by side.
Image courtesy of Carbide and Diamond Tooling.

#8 – Tool Holders

Solid End Mill Holders

 

End mills with a Weldon flat are secured by a set screw, which provides a strong grip and minimal concentricity loss.

Image courtesy of Glacern.

ER Collet Holder

ER collets can hold many different sizes and types of tools. While they are known for their versatility, they are less secure than hydraulic, shrink fit, and end mill holders.

Image courtesy of Micro Machine Shop.

Collet Chucks

These have better gripping power than collet chucks and are more rigid and accurate. You’ll find them used in high-speed applications with larger tools.

Image courtesy of Glacern.

Drill Chucks

Drill chucks provide a convenient holder for general hole drilling jobs that makes switching between drill bits simple. You can also use a collet chuck as a replacement for drill chucks.

Image courtesy of Amazon.

Hydraulic & Shrink Fit Holders

These specialty holders use either fluid or thermal expansion to center and compress a tool. Both provide excellent tool concentricity.

Image courtesy of Machinery Market.

Pick the Right Tool for the Job

Choosing the right CNC tool for the job will set you up for machining success. While there are many other tools that you’ll encounter during your machining career, this list will serve as a foundation to build upon. Familiarize yourself with how each one works, make sure to find out which tools are important to your specific shop’s applications, and in time you’ll know how to handle any job that comes your way.

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We use Bing to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bing. Ads are based on both Bing data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bing has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bing to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bing Privacy Policy
G2Crowd
We use G2Crowd to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by G2Crowd. Ads are based on both G2Crowd data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that G2Crowd has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to G2Crowd to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. G2Crowd Privacy Policy
NMPI Display
We use NMPI Display to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by NMPI Display. Ads are based on both NMPI Display data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that NMPI Display has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to NMPI Display to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. NMPI Display Privacy Policy
VK
We use VK to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by VK. Ads are based on both VK data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that VK has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to VK to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. VK Privacy Policy
Adobe Target
We use Adobe Target to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Adobe Target Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Advertising)
We use Google Analytics (Advertising) to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Google Analytics (Advertising). Ads are based on both Google Analytics (Advertising) data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Google Analytics (Advertising) has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Google Analytics (Advertising) to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Google Analytics (Advertising) Privacy Policy
Trendkite
We use Trendkite to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Trendkite. Ads are based on both Trendkite data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Trendkite has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Trendkite to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Trendkite Privacy Policy
Hotjar
We use Hotjar to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Hotjar. Ads are based on both Hotjar data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Hotjar has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Hotjar to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Hotjar Privacy Policy
6 Sense
We use 6 Sense to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by 6 Sense. Ads are based on both 6 Sense data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that 6 Sense has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to 6 Sense to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. 6 Sense Privacy Policy
Terminus
We use Terminus to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Terminus. Ads are based on both Terminus data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Terminus has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Terminus to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Terminus Privacy Policy
StackAdapt
We use StackAdapt to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by StackAdapt. Ads are based on both StackAdapt data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that StackAdapt has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to StackAdapt to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. StackAdapt Privacy Policy
The Trade Desk
We use The Trade Desk to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by The Trade Desk. Ads are based on both The Trade Desk data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that The Trade Desk has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to The Trade Desk to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. The Trade Desk Privacy Policy
RollWorks
We use RollWorks to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by RollWorks. Ads are based on both RollWorks data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that RollWorks has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to RollWorks to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. RollWorks Privacy Policy

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