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5 Tips to Remember When Setting Up Your First Prototyping Lab
When setting up your first prototyping lab, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed before you even get started. Don’t derail your progress before it begins. Instead, take a look at the 5 tips we’ve complied to help make your first prototyping lab a success. Tip #1:...
How to Choose the Best CNC for Rapid Prototyping
The road to insourcing your prototyping can be a long, yet knowledge-filled journey. Hopefully our previous discussions on rapid prototyping in-house have educated and inspired you to take the reins on manufacturing your own prototypes. Once you’ve decided...
Insta-connection – How a Local Robotics Team Partnered With a CNC Machine Company
Insta-Connection I first learned of DATRON Dynamics in January 2019 after they liked one of my photos on Instagram. Curious to know what this company was about, I did some research that lead me to online reviews of their company and products. I was impressed...
Generative Design, Prototyping, and CNC Milling: What You Need to Know
When tasked with bringing prototyping in-house or building your own prototyping lab, you might find there is an overwhelming wealth of information to evaluate. From capabilities to costs, space requirements, and concerns over noise, vibration, waste, and...
Benefits/Advantages of Rapid Prototyping In-house
If you’re on the fence about setting up your own prototyping lab, the following ten benefits of bringing rapid prototyping in-house should convince you of its advantages. As manufacturing evolves and the market demands more, with respect to faster and...
3D Printing vs CNC Milling: Which Do You Need When Setting Up a Prototyping Lab?
In order to accurately assess what you need when setting up a prototyping lab, the first order of business is deciding between 3D printing vs. CNC milling. Both options have proven critical to modern manufacturing processes, with each one featuring a roster...
What is Rapid Prototyping?
Without rapid prototyping, which allows CNC machinists and engineers to transform a scale model into physical, tangible product, Microsoft might not be so excited—or quick—to show off its latest gaming console. “Billed as the most powerful games console...
CNC Programming for Batch Machining
Today, we’re going to answer a question that we get a lot – how do I program for batch machining? What is Batch Machining? “I need to make identical parts in one fixture. Should I take first position as a program zero or do I need to find zero point for each...
Machining Engineered Plastics and PCB’s for Electronics
In the 1960’s and ‘70’s Bill Devine, did tours of duty both in Vietnam and working at Excellon selling equipment to printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers. In 1978, he set out on his own and founded QC Drilling, Inc. (now called QC Precision Machining) in...
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