3-axis CNC machining center F5

verticalHSK A-6330 tools

The F5 vertical machining center is designed to provide stiffness and rigidity for chatter-free cutting, agility expected from a hard milling machine and accuracies for tight-tolerance blends and matches typical of complex, 3-D contoured geometry associated with die/mold and medical production. The machine design begins with a unique axis configuration—featuring no overhangs—and incorporates large castings that provide a robust cutting platform. It then integrates 8mm-fine pitch ballscrews and 0.05-micron scale feedback, as standard equipment, enabling the F5 machine to provide superior precision. Together these features reduce variability for hours of continuous, tight-tolerance machining. The F5 offers positioning accuracies to within ±0.0015mm and repeatability of ±0.001mm Included in the standard configuration of the F5 machine is a highly productive 20,000-rpm, HSK-A63 spindle, which incorporates Makino’s patented core-cooling, under-race and jacket spindle temperature control system. The two-range spindle supplies unique, wide-range capability with the stiffness and rigidity at lower ranges for roughing operations, and vibration/chatter-free production of small details and fine features when utilizing small tools at high rpm. The F5 utilizes the Makino Professional 6 control, which affords the perfect blend of a Windows 7 operating system’s graphical user interface (GUI), touch-screen selection offering instant access to information literally at your fingertips, user-friendly, efficient PC-like capability for data management and editing, and the networking and storage capability of a data center.