Voiceover is an important part of the story told by these videos. Be sure your speakers are turned on. Adjust the volume and select full screen mode in the lower right corner of each player.
Five-axis simultaneous countouring is not just interesting and advanced capability; with today's powerful CAD/CAM systems, 5-axis is for everyone that needs to make 3-D contours with deep details. 5-axis can reduce or eliminate secondary operations, help keep your carbide tooling shorter and lower its cost. This video shows milling of an aerospace pump impeller.
This is a video overview of the IMTS-08 demonstration of Creative Evolution's model FMC-850 high performance CNC machining center.
The Creative Evolution CNC HSD-500 and HSD-820 are shown in a cell with a System 3R Workmast robot. Also shown is a bit of hard milling that is also performed on many of these same machines, even in a mixed environment with graphite milling.
Retrofitting can be a great option for your good, but outdated machine. The Creative Evolution CNC will generally improve performance by two to three times, though gains of 10x or more have been reported. Here's video from one specific case.
