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The following parts are a good fit for CNC turning:

Rotary parts with high precision requirements.

Rotary parts with complex surface shapes.

Rotary parts with lateral machining.

Ultra-precision and ultra-low surface roughness parts.

Parts with special threads.

The main costs related to CNC machining can be divided into machining time, start-up cost, material cost, and feature cost. To reduce costs, you need to understand the impact of these factors on costs.

– The best way to reduce machining time is to design features that can be processed quickly, such as by selecting the correct inner corner radius, reducing the cavity depth, increasing the wall thickness, limiting the thread length, and designing holes of standard size.

– The material cost can be reduced by considering the size of the required blank and the cost and machinability of bulk materials (softer alloys process faster).

– Start-up costs can be reduced by reducing the number of part rotations or repositioning required to complete the part, such as dividing the geometry into multiple parts that can be assembled later.

– Using tolerances only when strictly necessary, deleting all text and letters, and avoiding multiple surface treatments can reduce feature costs.

Read more detail in our complete guide on how to reduce the cost of CNC machining parts.

CNC turning is used for creating a variety of parts, including auto parts, knobs, tubes, gears, toy parts, flywheels, crankshafts, hubs & disc cams. It is most often used to manufacture CNC parts online for automotive, aerospace, medical, and other industries.

There are many types of CNC turning operations for CNC lathe services that can be performed on a live tooling lathe in CNC turning factory, including Hard turning, Parting, Facing, Boring, Reaming, Taper turning, Drilling, Knurling, Threading, Grooving, etc., comes in varying tools, cost and set-up time.

– Tapered turning: produce a cylindrical part of which diameter decrease from one end to another.

– Hard turning: suited for materials with a Rockwell C hardness greater than 45, typically performed after heat treated.

– Spherical generation: create a spherical finished surface, turning around a fixed rotary axis.

– Facing: a turning operation in which the workpiece is machined to its center.

– Parting: create deep grooves that remove a completed or part-complete component from its parent stock.

– Grooving: similar to parting, but only cut to a specific depth from outside or inside of the workpiece.

– Drilling: remove materials to drill holes from the inside of a workpiece with drill bits held stationary in the tailstock or tool turret of the lathe. Boring: enlarge or smooth an existing hole.

– Knurling: cut a serrated pattern onto the surface of the workpiece with a knurling tool, to change or enhance the visual effect or hand grip.

– Reaming: remove a small volume of materials from a drilled hole, for highly accurate diameters.

– Threading: turn standard and non-standard screw threads, which generally means single-point threading.

– Polygonal turning: non-circular forms machining operation without interrupting the rotation of the raw material.