Cutting Tools and Tooling

Start with hand cutting tools

Hand Cutting Tools is a flashcard deck with questions about hacksaw blades. It asks you to compare flexible and solid, or all-hard, blades and consider blade pitch for tool steel and thin-wall tubing. Work through the questions first, then return to any that you want to think about again.

The deck offers a focused starting point before you move on to the broader tooling maps.

Explore the tooling maps

The mind maps bring together tool names under headings such as milling, lathe, press, punch and EDM. Several maps include end mills, drills, taps and reamers. Others also list items such as boring bars, threading tools, chamfer tools and knurling tools.

Start with a map that includes terms you recognize. Look at how it groups the names, then open another map to compare its headings and entries. The maps offer different collections of terms, so you can use them alongside each other.

Connect the resources

After working through the hand tool flashcards, use a tooling map to practice recognizing a wider range of tool names. You could note a heading from a map and recall the tools listed beneath it, then check the map. Return to the flashcards for another look at their blade comparison and selection questions.

There is also a map on modified cutters for knurling cylindrical shaft sections. It offers another place to explore after you have looked at the broader tooling maps.

Use this section in context

Cutting Tools and Tooling is a section of Machining, Machine Tools and CNC in Mechanical engineering. The flashcards and maps let you work from a focused set of hand-tool questions toward the range of tooling terms listed in this section. Choose a map and see which terms you can recognize.