Made here in Castlemaine

CNC Routing Services

Are you looking at cutting some parts of your own design? We offer a professional CNC routing service in a range of materials for other designers, makers, manufacturers and domestic clients.

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Accurate

We'll work with you to determine the appropriate tolerance range for your parts. +-0.1 mm etc

Powerful

Our professional HSD spindles handle deep cuts at high feedrates.

Experience

We've been CNC machining timber parts for 15 years with a continuous improvement ethos.

Solar Powered

Our machines are powered by a 33kW rooftop solar array. Making our operation carbon neutral.

TECH SPECS

The Nerdy Stuff

Read on to be that person who supplies us with world-class CNC ready files.

Materials we work with

Machining

  • Timbers: Plywood, solid timber, chipboard etc. (Sorry, no MDF)
  • Plastics: Acrylic, acetyl, aluminium composite panel ACM
  • Soft metals: Aluminium and brass

Oscillating Tangential Knives

  • Acoustic products: AutexEchoPanel
  • Cardboard and paper
  • Cork

Specialist ('The Pencil Sharpener')

  • Dowel machining 12-43mm diameter

Maximum parts size

Typical machine setup:
2440 x 1220mm with vacuum hold down bed

Maximum machine travel:
2751 x 1590 x 90mm (XYZ)

Preferred file formats

  • Fusion 360 for models and profile cutting
  • Rhino 5 or 7 for models and profile cutting
  • .DXF and .DWG for profile cutting only
  • .STEP for models
  • .AI for profile cutting, please ensure geometry is a single outline vector.

If you're providing nested sheets, please supply them within a single file. Separate layers for each machine operation type is preferred but not essential. We can draw up and program files as per your specifications, a dimensioned sketch is often enough for simple jobs.

Tooling guide

  • For most panel work in 9-30mm stock we use a 9.5mm diameter compression cutter with 11mm part spacing and 3mm sheet margin.
  • The smallest cutter that can through-cut 18mm stock is 4mm diameter.
  • Most OpenDesk products are cut with an 8mm dia compression cutter on 12-24mm thick stock.
  • 6mm stock we commonly use 4-6mm diameter cutters.
  • Max stock thickness for engraving ~80mm.
  • Max stock thickness for through cutting 50-60mm.
  • Aluminium 1-25mm we commonly use a 6.35mm dia cutter.
  • Acrylic 3-12mm we use a 4.76mm dia cutter.

Request a quote

Please note that our minimum CNC machining quote is $1,200. We have limited capacity to machine other people’s parts, but we are happy to look at your files and give you a quote, bearing in mind our minimum for this sort of work.

Please submit a quote request with details and files via the form below.

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