The invention relates to the technical field of
machining of mechanical parts, in particular to a
cycloid machining method for a large-allowance
casting blank. A datum plane of a
casting is determined, the blank allowance thickness of the surface of the
casting is determined, a cutter is fed in a spiral
cycloid manner according to the blank allowance, and the blank is milled by the cutter in a down-milling manner. When the
milling cutter cuts into the workpiece blank, the cutter point cuts into the casting blank, the shearing force generated when the cutter point cuts into the casting blank is obviously smaller than the force generated in the mode that the middle section of a
cutting edge cuts into the casting blank, and the
impact load in the
cutting process is also relatively small. According to the method, the cutter path can be determined, the cutter moves circularly and swings in the direction of a straight line or a circle or the edge of a part, materials of the to-be-
cut part in a blank workpiece are divided into
cutting layers with the uniform thicknesses in the direction of being perpendicular to the swing direction of the cutter, the cutting
layers are
cut off layer by layer in the swing process of the cutter, and the phenomena that due to the fact that the blank is uneven, large fluctuation of the
cutting force is generated, and vibration in the
machining process and the loss of the cutter are generated are avoided.