October 1997 Issue

October 1997

Keep Your Spindles Cutting
Cover Story

Keep Your Spindles Cutting

Machining centers are marvelously flexible tools for getting production efficiency. Moreover, arranging machining centers into affordable, flexible cells allows shops to push the efficiency envelope even further.

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Features

Featured articles from the October 1997 issue of Modern Machine Shop

Interpolating Curves
CAD/CAM

Interpolating Curves

The ability to import complex curves into CNCs promises to let shops finally get beyond old limitations imposed by contouring with linear interpolation. Faster and smoother cutting will be the result.

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Die/Mold

New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes

New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes.

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CAD/CAM

New CAM Technology Links Knowledge And Solid Modeling

Some CAM developers are beginning to integrate the power of solid modeling with intelligent manufacturing applications that "know" how shops want to machine their parts.

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New Software Helps Manage Entire Shop

This new venture combines the resources of existing waterjet machining companies across the United States, acting as a single agent through which their services are marketed.

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Low-Pressure Spraying Coolant System Keeps Prototype Shop Out Of The Fog

Imagine a machine, with parts your shop helped to manufacture, traveling on a one-way trip for millions of miles, to land and gather information on another planet. Now, imagine your coolant ruining all that.

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Hold The Tool On Target
Toolholders

Hold The Tool On Target

Toolholders deliver tight concentricity - no tramming required.

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