METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING THE CUTTING EDGE GEOMETRY OF A ROTARY-DRIVEN TOOL

摘要

The invention relates to a method and to a device for testing the cutting edge geometry of a rotary-driven tool (20). The cutting edge geometry of a tool is tested during time intervals that comprise points in time at which a zone of the tool to be tested (32) is expected to dip into a measuring beam (14). At points in time when the tool does not dip into the measuring beam no measurements are made, thereby increasing the reliability of the measurements and preventing measuring errors. To this end, a measuring system (10-18) is used that preferably comprises programmable units to use the invention flexibly in different machine tools and tools without having to change the set-up of the measuring system.