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Software draws and prices 2 1/2D parts
database. The Price window shows several delivery periods. Buttons in the upper right pull up tips for reducing costs. Job settings are a series of user selections for items such as sequence of machining operations, specifications, finishing, payment, and packing. Software draws and prices 2 1/2D parts
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Good News for Guitarists -- Automated Sander Finishes Frets Fast
A novel motion-control scheme on a custom woodworking sander has automated the precision finishing of fret boards for highquality guitars. C F Martin & Co. Dual sanding belts and a swinging workholder on the machine are controlled by a combination of linear and rotary servomotor axes. Formally
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"Liquid electrode" finishes alloy parts
A special electrochemicalmachining (ECM) technology uses an electrolyte solution with proprietary chemistry as a "tool" to perform finishing operations on alloy parts instead of the more-typical, conformal, metal electrode. Close-up samples of a medical implant show the part before (top) and after
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Midrange CAM assists advanced machining
solid-modeling market. In addition to knowledgebased machining where templates direct operations such as pocketing, thread milling, and corner finishing, the NC software supports advanced features such as three to five-axis milling, turning, grooving, and mill-turning, and toolpath simulation and machine-tool
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MICRO: Critical Materials?Wafers
and Veli-Matti Airaksinen, Maria Hokkanen, and A subsurface defect mapping technique using scattered laser light can measure damage to silicon wafers caused by polishing, slicing, lapping, and other surface-finishing processes. anufacturers of silicon wafers have been striving for years to produce
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Magnesium takes on aluminum and steel
alloys are too soft. is well known for producing near-net shapes that need little finishing molded parts have smoother surfaces than conventional castings, without flow marks. Surfaces also have lower porosity and fewer defects and, thus, better mechanical properties than die-cast magnesium
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"Productizing" Your IPm Apps
Adding your product's personality to the IPm platform is easy with the free Linux tools provided on the SIXNET CD. You can also give your product a professional OEM look with your own labeling. The finishing touch is to link your configuration tools into the SIXNET I/O Tool Kit. (Remember
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MICRO: Industry News: Lead Story (February 2001)
were putting the finishing touches on the 1999 in November. Amid great debate, the industry decided to stick with the original three-year intervals between technology advances in DRAM half-pitch chips in the 1999 document rather than move to an accelerated two-year cycle. Yet, lo and behold