User Friendly Enclosure
The SwissMak machine enclosure has 8 sides. Every side is a door-window, so you can watch your parts being machined from any angle. The coolant system recirculates and filters fluid, while keeping noise and chips inside the machine.
Work Envelope
The SwissMak is optimized for round and hex bar stock approximately the size of a 2 liter soda bottle or smaller. Larger diameter parts over 10 inches can be machined if they can be gripped safely. We recommend you be careful with any part that's bigger in diameter than the chuck, especially longer solid metal bars of this size.
Workholding
The SwissMak is built to machine parts that require both turning and milling. The headstocks have a large 2" (52mm) spindle bore for bar work. You can mount 4"(100mm), 5"(125mm), and 6"(160mm) chucks and collet noses to the spindle face plate. This covers the majority of workpiece and stock sizes, ranging from the tiniest needles to the largest tubes and bars that can fit in the chuck. Chucks and collets can be adjusted and indicated on the face plate to eliminate runout. As always, you can make your own fixtures for difficult parts.
Touchscreen Control System
Touchscreen Windows PC with 3d printer GUI interface. The control interface runs in a browser window (no internet connection required). You can drop and drop files, create and edit programs, and monitor the machine status at the same time.
Intuitive and easy to operate with no training required. If you know how to use a PC, you can run the SwissMak.
Compact Machine Design
The SwissMak allows you to create any part geometry, combining the functionality of CNC lathes and CNC mills. With 8 axes and 11 servos, you can make any part that fits in the work area.
Milling Capability
The SwissMak milling head can rotate +- 90 degrees. The spindle takes any standard BT30 or 30 taper tooling.
Face Machining
Operate the SwissMak like a horizontal machining center.
Back Side Machining
Transfer the workpiece to the tailstock spindle, then you can machine the back side of the workpiece.
Polygon Milling Macros
Parametric macros make it fast and easy to machine geometric shapes.
Excellent Surface Finishes
Chips fall away from the part when you’re cutting.
Rigid Tapping
Tap up to M12x1.75 in aluminum with the milling spindle, or M20 with the turning spindle.
18 Station Tool Turret
There’s no shortage of tools on the SwissMak turret. With 8 axial 25mm places for ER25 collets and 10 radial stick tool pockets, you will always have the tools you need for any job that comes up.
The turret can be indexed by CNC control, but can also be operated manually via a handwheel on the back side. The SwissMak turret plate can be swapped out for more specialized tool loads.
Big Bore Spindles
You can machine extra long parts out of bar stock using the 1.63” (42mm) bore through the chucks. The spindle bore is 51mm, the back side is limited to 46mm. The subspindle is identical to the main spindle, and can fit different workholding attachments if needed.
Rigid, Precise Build Quality
Our SwissMak castings are machined on Mitsui Seiki jig-boring machines to flatness and parallelism of less than 8 microns per square meter.
With oversized boxways and spindle bearings, the SwissMak has good static rigidity.
Hard turning a large diameter steel cylinder
Angular Precision
Rotary axis backlash is 6 arc seconds. Linear axes are capable of sensorless homing with repeatability better than 5 microns.
Pre-hardened steel forging, similar to a crankshaft.
6Al-4V Titanium, 90mm stock.
Hold tight tolerances on turning and milling operations
Full enclosure - All 8 sides are window doors
Recirculating flood coolant with sloped chip bin
Rigid tapping, spindle indexing, and threading on all rotary axes
Runs on 220 volt single phase residential/commercial power
A , B, C, rotary axes are directly driven by large harmonic gears - no backlash
Hard Chromed, Hardened steel boxways and screws
Full Tailstock Subspindle; useful for precise back work transfers without needing realignment
Sensorless homing on all 5 linear axes, 22bit encoders on spindles
PC Based Touch Screen control with open source software
Future compatibility with automatic tool changers
Uses inexpensive, open source 3d printer electronics for the controller
Capable of mounting air chucks and air collet systems for automated workholding
No proprietary tooling or consumables