In this tutorial, we will go over some of the top tips and tricks on how you can improve your designs and decrease cost while optimizing for manufacturing on a CNC milling process. We’ll cover everything from fillets, tapping, chamfers, setups, drilling, undercuts, and even text.     A CNC milling machine is used to transform blocks of raw stock into finished parts by cutting away material in a subtractive manufacturing process. They are generally three axes to a milling machine. The x-axis, which is le......

Besides CNC turning and milling, there are many other operations that can be done on CNC machines for different purposes. Here we are going to talk about facing operation, what is facing in lathe machine? How to perform facing on a lathe and which type of feed is needed? Follow us to go through all these questions and find the answers, understand more about the facing process. ......

There are hundreds of metal alloys available for CNC milling and turning, one of the best for your next project depends on a variety of factors, including price, weight, workability, strength, corrosion resistance, and cosmetic appearance. Here’s a closer look at the ones we use every day to help you pick, and what advantages they might have for your next project.   #1 Aluminum This has been the most general-purpose grade of aluminum. Magnesium, silicon, and iron are the primary alloy components. For......

Manufacturing is evolving to satisfy the needs of consumers and high-standard products. Often this means that machine workshops need to adjust their approach to standard measures or procedures, and how they set up to handle parts that they could have manufactured on a daily basis. The emergence of very hard specialist alloys and composites has been extremely important for machine shops: Dies and molds or energy machine parts.   Machining hard materials take precise attention to the nature of procedures and equi......

Whether it is machine tools or some instruments and equipment for CNC machining, they should be assembled and set up before use. The installation and set up of CNC machine tools refers to the things that should be completed when the CNC machine tools arrive at the user’s destination from the manufacturer and are installed in the customer’s workplace until the machine tools can work normally. This process is generally completed by the machine tool manufacturer with the cooperation of the user. Whether ......

https://www.cnclathing.com/wp-content/themes/sumi Tolerance is critical in the design and manufacturing of CNC parts, to determine the tolerance value for a specific workpiece, we need the help of some international standards. Here we introduce ISO 2768 standard and ISO 2768 tolerance chart, also provide a free PDF file of General Tolerances for Linear and Angular Dimensions for download. What is ISO 2768? ......

When you need to fabricate a batch of products with the brand name or artwork with prints, the use of engraving is an efficient solution. Combing with the development of manufacturing machinery and equipment, here we are going to outline is CNC engraving. What is CNC engraving and what machines are used? Check out the engraving machine types and techniques applied. ......

How to identify your lock key and which type you should buy? Check out the lock keyway types and designs, as well as what is a keyway. If you still have questions about your key type, please feel free to contact us.  What is A Keyway (Lock Keyway)? The keyway refers to a hole or slot in a lock for receiving and guiding the ......