Drawing review checklist
The questions to ask before opening CAM: revision, tolerances, stock, workholding, operations, inspection.
Open →CNC turning · method and tools
From drawing to the first good part.
Every time.
Sheets, tools and lessons to industrialize a turned part: workholding, tooling, inspection. Made by someone who has programmed and set up lathes for about 15 years.
- Free online
- No sign-up
- Works offline
- English · Italiano
Two paths
Where do you start?
New to turning
Learn
Four lessons in order, a guided case on a two-operation bushing and sheets to describe a machining problem.
Go to the lessons →
Running a shop floor
Work
Drawing checklist, process sheet and inspection sheet: so every job starts the same way, whoever is at the lathe.
Go to the tools →Tools
Tools that work right away.
They open in the browser, even on a phone. Your data stays on your device.
Process sheet
Spindle setup, operations with workholding, turret and tool, dimensions linked to the tool that produces them.
Open →Inspection sheet
Hourly grid, min–max dimensions, out-of-tolerance values in red, your shop’s logo.
In the kit →
The part turns
The tool cuts
The measurement decides
The method
Eleven steps, always the same.
Every part goes through the same sequence. Every step has its own sheet, so nothing lives only in one person’s head.
- 01Drawing, dimensions, tolerances
- 02Stock selection
- 03Workholding
- 04Operation sequence
- 05Setup and tooling
- 06Cutting data
- 07Programming and CAM
- 08Simulation
- 09Transfer and start-up
- 10First-part inspection
- 11Documentation and updates
Free and Kit
The online tools stay free.
The kit is a one-time purchase.
CNC PROCESS Free
€0
- Drawing review checklist
- Online process sheet
- Lessons and guided case
CNC PROCESS Kit
€39
- Process and inspection sheets, HTML and Excel
- Filled-in examples on a training part
- Your logo on the sheets
- Quick guide
CNC Process Management
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- Inspection sheet generated from the process sheet
- Measurement history per part number
- Locked, signed sheets
Learn
Practical Turning: one process at a time.
The free path for people starting out in a turning shop. Fundamentals, not recipes: every machine and every process has its own rules.
01
The machine is a system
Spindles, turret, axes and control: what they do and how they work together.
02Workholding and sub-spindle
Clamping, locating and transferring the part between operations.
03From drawing to work plan
Surfaces, workholding, operations and inspection before any code.
04Finding your way in the CNC control
Work offsets, tool offsets, units and simulation.
About
Made by someone who works at the lathe.
About 15 years of CNC programming on multi-spindle, multi-turret lathes, including hands-on work at the machine: setup, workholding, part inspection.
Every tool comes from a problem met on a real shop floor. No machine or tool maker behind it: nothing to sell you beyond the tools themselves.
— CNC PROCESS
Newsletter
Tell me when the kit is out.
One email when new tools, lessons or the kit come out. Nothing else.