Stiffness and strength are crucial properties when determining the application of materials, they would be often confused, but these two terms are not interchangeable. What’s the difference between strength and stiffness of a material? Let’s get into the distinguish between stiffness and strength. What is Strength? Streng......

A lathe machine can be used for CNC turning, drilling, reaming and more operations. The development of lathe design minimizes human labor and improves working efficiency. To fit various needs and simplify the procedure, such a metalworking lathe – turret lathe is created. In this article, we’ll learn about what is a turret lathe and its working principle, as well as the comparison between turret lathe and engine lathe, turret lathe and capstan lathe. ......

Milling is a versatile process for meeting various manufacturing needs, the machine tool designed for CNC milling is called a milling machine or mill. To produce different features and parts, multiple types of milling machines can be selected. In this article, we’ll introduce a common choice – column and knee type milling machine, and get into its definition, types, parts, diagram, and more. What is Column and......

There are two primary techniques used in 3D printing services: Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) and Stereolithography Apparatus (SLA), respectively utilizes filaments and resins to build the 3D models. Filament 3D printer vs resin, which one to choose? In this post, we are going to focus on the difference between FDM and SLA 3D Printing, so that you can determine it rightly. ......

The best way to understand 3D printing is to start from how it is done, which needs a 3D printer for the actual motion. In this article, we’ll learn about the basics of 3D printers, including the definition of a 3D printer, how it works and the main parts of a 3D printer. What is a 3D Printer? ......

Before machining the parts suitable for CNC milling, we should analyze the process of the drawing. When analyzing the part drawing, we should not only consider whether the dimension data is omitted or repeated, whether the dimension is ambiguous and whether the dimension is closed, but also analyze whether the dimension marking method of the part drawing is convenient for programming. Here’s everything you should know about process analysis of parts drawing for CNC milling. ......

After understanding what makes a tolerance in CNC machining in our last chapter, here first we will be going slightly more in-depth into the main issues that we generally encounter when dealing with CNC machining parts with our customers; then we will be diving into the several issues that engineers or designers may encounter when dealing with tolerances.   *assembly design One of the first issues we often encounter in our industry is design for assembly. You can simply put it like this: the targeted part......

  Tolerances in the context of CNC machining can be complicated, we won’t talk about what we mean by CNC machining? The different processes and what impacts tolerances, and the different parameters of a part that may impact the tolerances. CNC machining is not one process, it is an assemble of several sub-processes that all work in the context of CNC with CAD files or CAD designs. However, it is possible to make one design or to manufacture one design in several possible ways. The two main sub-processes......