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Rapid Rules: Efficient rapid prototyping on a CNC machine tool (cte magazine)

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Say the words “rapid prototyping” and most people think of 3D printing. But until recently, most prototyping was performed by skilled machinists who cranked the handles on knee mills and engine lathes to make parts far more quickly than was possible with camdriven and, subsequently, CNC production machines.

That decades-old paradigm has begun to shift. Machine tool builders, tool suppliers and software developers now deliver technology that makes it possible for CNC operators to set up jobs in minutes rather than hours, and deliver parts in days instead of weeks.

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