3D Modeling-Flat Pattern Drafting Best practices Some of the best practices for the 3D modeling are when a customer draws us the material, parts are in 3D, you need to make sure that if it is going to be a bent part they draw it as a sheet metal part, which is a formed part,… Continue reading 3D Modeling – Flat Pattern Drafting & Design + Sheet Metal Parts for Manufacturing and 3D Conversion
Pricing Strategy One of the current themes that we have here is a customer coming in with an over intolerance on their print. For a part that they want us to manufacture for them and that really comes back to good communication between the customer and ourselves. So we see something, we look at it,… Continue reading Pricing Strategy -Strategies and Pricing Your Work for Services in the Product Manufacturing Process
Laser Cutting – Line Cutter Projects One of the things I think sets laser cutting apart from some of the other alternative methods to cut metal is one the flexibility, with the laser cutter you can put a flat sheet of steel up there and cut any number of geometries. Where if you go to… Continue reading Laser Cutting – Line Cutter Projects to Cut Metal + Perforating Sheet Metal with Laser Beam + Steel
Order Processing Speed A couple of things they can do to make sure it’s processed quickly is, one, make sure if they have a print, everything is legible on it, the tolerances are laid out of what they are expected to have. Know what the materials are, if they have a CAD file that we… Continue reading Order Processing Speed – Manufacturing Order Process for Laser Cutting Sales + Overhead + Rate
Trumpf Laser Cutting Trumpf is a global company that makes hand tools as well big pieces of equipment like PCI has. There are OEM4 Lasers and for most of our press breaks, they also get into various other robotic welding type cells and things of that nature but all of which doesn’t really apply to… Continue reading Trumpf Laser Cutting -Trumpf 3030 -Trumpf 2530 -Trumpf 1030 Fiber laser
Press Brake – Machine Tool Programming Press Brake Press brake is a machine tool that will take your material, you clamp it between a punch and a die and it will form your material into which ever specific angle you need. The Trumpf press brakes we have range from model C120, also a Trumpf V130,… Continue reading Press Brake – Machine Tool Programming Operation Clamp for Bending + Tooling + Forming + Punch + Die
Laser Cutting Preferred File Formats The preferred formats that we like to have from customers would be anything of a CAD base, whether it be a DXF file, DWG file, IGES files, even 3D models in Solid Works or Inventor files. IPT files we can use, we can even do STEP files which is more… Continue reading Laser Cutting + Metal Bending and Welding File Preparation
Welding Basics – Welding Tips and Tricks Welding Basics Welding is a process that uses electric to bring a particular diameter electrode to its kindling point and join 2 metallic pieces of metal together. Each type of material from steel to stainless to aluminium all have different melting points. Typically on a GMAW Mig-welding Arc… Continue reading Welding Basics – Welding Tips and Tricks – MIG + WIG + Arc + Robotic Welding 101
Laser Cutting – Metal, Steel, Titanium Process of Cutting Metal The process of cutting metal at PCI goes pretty simply actually for somebody who has never seen it done before, but you end up just taking a standard material which for us it’s very stiff types of metal, put it onto a C&C controlled machine… Continue reading Laser Cutting – Metal, Steel, Titanium, Thicknesses and Tolerances With a Laser Cutter
How Laser Cutting Works Laser Cutting Just laser cutting is having gas, mixtures of gases excited enough electronically, that emits a light beam that basically just cuts the material, it evaporates the material. To the best of my abilities laser cutting is generated by a power supply that creates a laser beam which is, basically… Continue reading How Laser Cutting Works – Materials – Speed – CO2 and Fiber Optic Laser Cutters