Shop books that build themselves
Your setup book is created straight from the program, in the order and the layout you want: operations, tools, feeds and speeds, machine and fixture details, and pictures. Nobody retypes a thing.
Custom automation
Automation for any software your shop runs.
Everything we make is custom made for your shop, to your exact specs. CAD, CAM, simulation, spreadsheets, and everything between them: if you can describe it, we can make it work.
Examples
A few things we have made
Each one was made to a shop's exact specs, and yours will be made to yours. They are examples, not a menu.
Blueprints in your shop standard
Fixture and part drawings built from the parts you pick, with the title block, bill of materials, hole tables, part sizes, and sheet scale filled in, plus export control marks where needed.
Tools built from your tool list
Every cutter built to exact specs straight from your tool list, so every program uses the same tool data.
Tool libraries that stay in sync
Tool data flows both ways between the setup book, your CAM system, and your simulation, so what you simulate is what the book calls for.
Special tool drawings for the tool room
Non-standard and custom tools come straight out of the program as a sheet per tool, with every size, length, angle, and holder detail your tool room or tool maker needs to modify or make it right the first time.
Job folders in one click
Every file in a job moved into a clean folder structure, named your way, and saved in one step.
Inspection data on the model
Measured inspection points placed right on the model, so you see exactly where a part is off.
Right angle head programs in one pass
Right angle head moves rewritten for each head angle in one pass, instead of line by line.
More examples
One click for the rest of the job
Not on the list? Ask for it. We make it work the way you want it.
Fix a simulation without rebuilding it
Moved a work offset or missed a clamp? The change goes straight from the program into your existing simulation project. Rerun in minutes instead of building it again.
Program out in one click
Export, post, and hand off the program with the right header, in one click.
Feeds and speeds from shop standards
Set feeds and speeds per tool, material, and operation from your standards and apply them to every operation at once.
Rename to the shop standard
Rename operations, programs, tools, and files to your naming rules in one click.
Automatic toolpaths
Radius, iso, and parametric paths and holes created for you, which saves the most time on big parts.
Whatever you can think of
If you can describe it, we can make it work: spreadsheets, reports, drawings, files and folders, and the steps between programs, all to your exact specs.
How a custom job works
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Tell us the task
What you do by hand, how often, and what goes wrong when it is rushed.
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Get a quote
A fixed bid for the project, or hourly when the scope is open.
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We make it to your exact specs
Your layout, your naming, your folders, your title blocks, your machines.
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Run it in one click
From the TrueSpindle Macro Tray, the same way on every PC.
Questions
What can you automate?
Pretty much anything you ask for. CAD/CAM macros, simulation projects and tool libraries, spreadsheets, setup sheets, drawings, file and folder work, and the steps between them, all made to your exact specs.
Do you need our part files?
No. We build and test with synthetic parts and programs made in-house, set up like yours.
How is it priced?
A fixed bid per project, or hourly. Tell us the task and we will quote it.
What would you automate first?
Describe the task in a few lines. We reply by email with questions or a quote.