High speed machining for : -
LARGE PLUGS PATTERNS MOULDS OR PROTOTYPES
aerospace - marine - automotive - industrial development

3D-e-Motion MACHINE PACKAGE

CNC from computer to motors (computer numerical control) for custom built machines for in house use.

We Supply:

• a package completely wired and assembled of
• computer with network capabilities
• black box with electronics and plugin for up to 5 controllable axes with a standard range of three powers of servo motors
• drawings of styles of machine carcasses that will accept the above system
• ballscrews and linear guides at cost effective prices.

You Supply:

• A machine carcass to take linear guides and ballscrews
• usually fabricated from steel plate or standard sections
• to suit a suggested minimum envelope of 4x4x2 ft (1.2x1.2x.6 meters)

WHY ??

There is a growing trend for companies to do development in house - no longer is - "take it to the experts" considered by all to be the best solution for development. The cost of passing information, and making it understood to a subcontractor is often very high. And often costs much more than doing the job in house.

It's Never Too Late To Take Control

WHAT THIS MEANS :

You can build a machine (or have it built by engineering workshop) to meet your exact needs for size and accuracy.

Machine carcass - No electronics computer or motors just needs 3D-e-Motion system to get into the world of 3D machining.

Once the 3D-e-Motion system is fitted the machine can be operated successfully with an absolute minimum of learning time.

The reason for this is that the e-motion system was built up by people with the need to achieve high speed machining in house for large plugs patterns moulds or prototypes. A highly trained CNC machinist is not needed to run this system.

Any person with windows interface knowledge and comprehension of xyz co-ordinates can learn and run this system in less than half a day. The biggest leaning curve is in choice of material and machining strategy.

CONTROL THE DESTINY OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT

• no subcontractor delays
• no communication errors
• everything right on hand

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

• no decision delays

YOUR CLIENTS WILL APPRECIATE THE RESULT

• professional performance for all to see

COST EFFECTIVE

• fewer delays good equipment
• means better bottom line

LONG LIFE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM

• for serious professional use

DELIVERY OF SYSTEM

• to your needs less than 3 months

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY OF THIS SYSTEM

About 7 years ago, when we felt we wanted a 3D machine for making large patterns, the cost of a large machine was astronomical - millions of dollars.

• We decided to build our own machine
• We didn't need something that would machine steel and that would weigh hundreds of tons.
• We didn't need something that would do automatic tool changing and automatic axis changing, and we didn't want to go to a technical school and learn all this stuff !
• We did need something that would machine soft materials - say wood, foam and maybe lead and aluminium - and machine it fast.

Machines that are built to machine steel do not need high speed contouring, because steel cannot be machined at more than 1 meter per minute (40 inches per minute). We wanted 10 times this speed !

This is difficult as the user interface, which is what you see on your computer screen, is usually developed by CNC machine manufacturers and is not available as a stand alone product. And the user interface is important to the way in which the machine achieves high speed contouring.

Note - a machine does two main moves:

• jogging (or traversing) where the tool head is moving in space in straight lines. High speed is easy to achieve because the data transmitted to the motors is minimal.
• contouring - where the tool head is actually cutting the material and where, if the path is curved, the amount of data to be transmitted is huge. Arc curves are not too slow because a circular arc can be defined with little data but as soon as the path becomes curved but not arc then the data required is humungus!

THE ACHIEVEMENT:

• easy to learn user interface
• high speed contouring - up to 10 times faster than other machines

A practical solution for in house machining of large items.

THIS POWERFUL TOOL CAN BE YOURS

Have a look at the gallery of some of the developments we have completed with our 3D-e-Motion MACHINE PACKAGE

This is a z-level or "waterline" Toolpath created in a toolpath package setup as a Rhino plugin

planar toolpath displayed in Rhino as above the red lines represent the centre of the ball end tool.