SmartCAM v17.0 for CNC milling includes improvements in solid pocketing and Z-axis roughing. Users define roughing regions by part feature and type of stock. The software knows when to switch roughing ...

CNC programming is expertise in the machine shop - and as AI technologies continue to mature, generative and agentic ...

Humans had to carry out all their machining processes by hand for centuries. Even precision tools had to be maneuvered very carefully, inch by inch, by people holding the devices personally. That all ...

Ency Academy adds 25 CNC courses, Learning Paths, multilingual access in 14 languages, and searchable video transcripts for faster training.

This compact machine could be valuable for education and training purposes as well as low-volume production work that shops might not want to run on their traditional Swiss-types.