TY - JFULL AU - Panagiotis Kyratsis and Konstantinos Kakoulis PY - 2015/7/ TI - Simulating Drilling Using a CAD System T2 - International Journal of Computer and Systems Engineering SP - 1034 EP - 1039 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001702 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 102, 2015 N2 - Nowadays, the rapid development of CAD systems’ programming environments results in the creation of multiple downstream applications, which are developed and becoming increasingly available. CAD based manufacturing simulations is gradually following the same trend. Drilling is the most popular holemaking process used in a variety of industries. A specially built piece of software that deals with the drilling kinematics is presented. The cutting forces are calculated based on the tool geometry, the cutting conditions and the tool/work-piece materials. The results are verified by experimental work. Finally, the response surface methodology (RSM) is applied and mathematical models of the total thrust force and the thrust force developed because of the main cutting edges are proposed. ER -