Avoiding Mistakes During the Design Process is the fifth tip

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Because of the high speed of our CNC machines, you can have your parts milled or turned in as little as one day if you upload your CAD model to our automated quote and design analysis engine before shipping them

Because of the high speed of our CNC machines, you can have your parts milled or turned in as little as one day if you upload your CAD model to our automated quote and design analysis engine before shipping them. Despite technological advancements that have made this possible, the human element continues to be critical in the manufacturing process—and is frequently the source of recurrent problems in parts designed for CNC machines—and is frequently the source of recurrent problems in parts designed for CNC machines.

Generally speaking, features that necessitate the use of unnecessary machining operations should be avoided as much as possible.

As an example, a common mistake is to CNC machining factory a part with areas that do not need to be machine cut, which is a common mistake. Increase the overall run time of a part by making it take longer to machine than it should. The overall run time of a part is an important factor in determining the final manufacturing cost of the part. Consider the following illustration, in which the brass CNC machining specifies a critical circular geometry that is required for the part's intended application to function properly. Once the square hole/feature has been milled into the center of the part, it must be completely removed from the surrounding material in order to reveal the finished part. A significant increase in run time is required in order to machine away the remaining material using this method. The machine simply cuts the part out of the block with a sharp blade in a more straightforward CNC products to save time and money. As a result of this technique, there is no longer any need for any additional, wasteful machining of excess material after the initial cut. Machine time is reduced by nearly half in this example due to a CNC components change that was implemented as illustrated in the graph, which is a result of the change.

 

 

 

 
 

Avoid including unnecessary machining in your steel CNC machining in order to save both time and money in the long run.

Using text that is either too small or raised above the background in contrast to the background is not recommended. 2:

It is possible that a milled part number, detailed descriptions, or your company logo will be required for a component to function properly, depending on the component. A second possibility is that some text simply appears to be extremely attractive on a particular section when viewed in a certain light. Even though text has no monetary value, there is a monetary value associated with it. The cost of printing rises in direct proportion to the length of the text that is being printed as well as the number of pages printed. It is necessary to spend more time on the job and incur a higher overall cost because the very small endmills that were used to cut the text operate at a slower rate than the larger endmills. You do, however, have a couple of other options available to you as well. As a result of the reduced time spent on the job, if your part can accommodate larger text, the cutting process will be significantly faster, resulting in a cost savings.

3. Stay away from walls that are either too tall or too thin in terms of height or thickness, respectively.

A well-known fact is that designing wall features for part designs can be a difficult task. Cutting tools for CNC machines, which make use of hard, rigid materials such as tungsten carbide and high-speed steel, enable the production of the desired result by reducing cutting time and increasing productivity. This is true despite the fact that when under machining pressure, the tools deflect or bend slightly, just as the material through which they are cutting deflects or bends slightly. It is possible that this process will result in issues such as an unattractive rippled surface on the part and difficulty meeting the tolerance requirements for the part, among other things. A damaged wall may chip or bend, and it may even collapse completely depending on the extent of damage it has sustained. For walls higher than 2 inches (51mm), it is possible that the material thickness will need to be increased in order to improve the structural rigidity. Our walls can only be 2 inches (51mm) in height at their highest point. Walls with thicknesses of less than 0.020 in. (0.508mm) are particularly vulnerable to breaking during machining, and they may flex or warp as a result of this.

Four, be cautious not to include any small pocket features that you may not actually need.

To reduce overall weight and/or to provide space for other components of an assembly, several parts are designed with square corners or small internal corner pockets. However, because our larger cutting tools are too small in comparison to their larger counterparts, they are incapable of cutting through internal 90-degree corners or small pockets of any size or shape. In order to create those, you must pick away at the corner material with ever-smaller tools as the material becomes more and more delicate as you progress through the process. With this situation, it is possible that six to eight different cutting tools will be required to effectively deal with the situation. In addition to increasing the overall run time of your project, as a result of all of those tool modifications, the overall cost of your project increases, as you would anticipate. This should be avoided at all costs. To do so, you must first determine how significant the pockets are in terms of their overall significance.

Following these instructions will help you avoid making holes that will not be able to be threaded properly later.

Our team can easily add threaded holes to your machined parts, ensuring that they are perfectly aligned with the rest of your machined parts. Making threads in a way that our quotation software will recognize them and that will allow them to be machined into your part is a time-consuming and difficult process that takes a lot of effort. When it comes to threads, we have a limited number of threads that are always available, regardless of how many orders are placed. When our software analyzes your part, which is done automatically by our software, we look for a hole diameter that will correspond to one of the threads in question and record that information. The software would search for holes with diameters that fall within the range of the thread you're looking for, such as a UNC or UNF #5-40 thread, and then display the results. If the thread's diameter does not fall within that range, you will be unable to assign that thread to the threading of your component's threading. When customers call us, this is frequently the situation, and it is at this point that we direct them to our threaded hole guidelines page, which serves as a quick-reference guide for them.

Please see the following page for a list of the various thread types that we currently have available: Thread Typeslist of thread types a list of thread types is provided.

 

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