简介：Inthiswork,anovelmethodforsculpturedsurfacesubdivisiontoimprovethemachinery'sabilityandefficiencyin5-axisCNCmachiningcomplexsurfaceisintroduced.Themethodsubdividesautomaticallyamonolithicconvexorconcaveorsimultaneouslycomplexsculpturedsurfaceintoanumberofsurfacepatchesandachievesthegoalofsimilarnormaldirectionsandsmalldifferencebetweenthecurvaturesineverypatchbyusingweightfuzzyclusteralgorithmwhichtakesthecurvaturesandnormalvectorsofthesculpturedsurfaceintoaccountsimultaneously.TheinclinationanglevariationbetweeneverytwoCutterContactPoints(CCPoints)isdecreasedineverypatchtoavoidlarge-anglerotationoftooltosavemachiningtimewhenaflat-endmillisused.Thisworkcontributestoautomating5-axisCNCtoolpathgenerationforsculpturedpartmachiningandformingafoundationforfurtherresearch.