Sometimes tool-designers must design complicated profile milling cutters to complete a machining task (see above sketch, 5.) If a profile is no more 10 mm (0.3937 inches) deep, some designers make ...

The main mechanical tools in a hacker’s shop used to be a drill press and a lathe. Maybe a CNC mill, if you were lucky. Laser cutters are still a rare tool to find in a personal shop, but today’s ...

A team at Vrije University in Brussels, Belgium, has teamed up with commercial desktop laser cutter provider "Mr Beam" to develop a new freeform lens that improves performance while shrinking the size ...

Electronic line shafting boosts speed and flexibility of die-cutting machines. Designs and builds packaging equipment for the folded carton industry. Its platen die-cutting machines generate a variety ...