At Diversified Machine Systems (DMS), we're all about cutting corners. But before you quote us on that, let's be clear'we're talking about literal corners here.
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With a CNC machine, the kinds of cuts you make are as diverse as the projects you take on. Unique tasks require unique applications. That's why DMS recommends our tangential oscillating knife for your trickier cuts.
Of course, a drag knife is the bread-and-butter option for cutting a pattern. With a drag knife, your CNC machine pulls the blade along an X-Y axis, dragging through soft materials like vinyl or cardboard with little difficulty. This is a cheap option that works for many products, but it also has its disadvantages.
With certain materials, drag knives are prone to distortions or fraying. Because the CNC uses a lateral pulling motion, a drag knife cannot cut as quickly or neatly as other applications. When it cuts a corner, a drag knife executes multiple moves by lifting and resetting, rather than turning cleanly around a 90-degree angle. This wastes material and costs unnecessary time. For these reasons, a drag knife isn't the right tool for every project.
DMS recommends a tangential oscillating knife for more robust uses. A tangential knife actively positions itself, moving in sync with the CNC to make sure that the knife's direction has a full range of motion. It also forces a proper geometry and gives the machine better functionality. This gives you complete directional control and allows you to cut sharp, square corners with less wasted resources, effort, and time. You get clean and accurate lines.
To meet a customer's needs, DMS can turn a 3-axis CNC into a 4-axis CNC with a C axis. This gives the user a lot more options. A C axis can work in conjunction with aggregates to position along a variety of angles, pairing with a CNC to open up a number of possibilities.
By incorporating an oscillating application, a knife can cut denser, more robust materials with greater ease and efficiency. While a drag knife creates friction along a material, especially if the blade is not perfectly sharp or aligned, oscillation alleviates this friction coefficient by cutting with a vertical motion. A tangential oscillating knife doesn't only rely only on the sharpness of the blade. Rather, the oscillation allows the blade to actively cut through the material'all while benefiting from the tangential knife technology.
A tangential oscillating knife is ideal for many materials, from foam to rubber, textiles to fibreboard. It can also be applied to advanced materials like aluminum honeycomb, a fairly difficult material that a traditional CNC might struggle to give a finished cut.
A tangential oscillating knife from Diversified Machine Systems expands your capacity to make better parts with a range of materials. That's the kind of creative freedom we always strive to give our clients. It's the freedom to cut corners'and every other shape you can imagine'with confidence.
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what's the vibrating/oscillating knife?
The vibrating/oscillating knife is a kind of electric tool. It uses a high-speed DC motor to drive the cam and the connecting rod, and with which to drive the blade to vibrate/oscillate up and down at a high frequency, to realize the cutting at a vibration/oscillation frequency of up to 20,000 times per minute.
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How does the vibrating/oscillating knife work?
The vibrating/oscillating cutter head is installed on the tool holder of the CNC machine tool, and the motion control system is used to drive the high-frequency vibrating/oscillating cutter head to perform a two-dimensional plane motion to cut the material, thus realizing the purpose of the vibrating/oscillating cutter CNC cutting.
What are the advantages of the vibrating/oscillating knife cutting machine?
With the advantages of fast cutting speed, more accuracy, and environmentally friendly, the vibrating/oscillating knife cutting machine can be widely used in cutting a range of non-metallic materials such as carbon fiber, glass fiber, fiber cotton, prepreg, aramid fiber, ceramic fiber, styropor, hard foam core, styrofoam, polyurethane, foam board, acrylic, polypropylene, polycarbonates, thermoplastic sheets, cloth, fleece, synthetic fabrics, impermeable fabric, functional textiles, vinyl, wire loop, leather, felt, carpet, sound-absorbing cotton, silicone, rubber, kt board, corrugated paper, honeycomb board, vertical corrugated board, single/multilayer wall, MDF, etc.
Compared with the laser cutting effect, the vibrating/oscillating knife cutting effect has obvious advantages such as smoother edge, more accurate cutting, environmental protection, no burning smell, and wider application.
The specific characteristics of the vibrating/oscillating knife cutting machine:
1. Ultra-high frequency vibrating/oscillating knife cutting technology makes cutting more efficient, faster, and more precise.
2. It can easily solve various problems when using die-cutting, such as tool replacement, which is faster and more convenient. In addition, feeding and receiving systems can be installed according to customer needs, which is more intelligent and labor-saving.
3. Effectively solve the disadvantages such as burnt and the peculiar smell caused by using laser cutting machines and more environmental protection. For example, when cutting a carpet with PVC at the bottom, the incision is very smooth without black edges and burnt caused by laser cutting, and the cutting effect is more perfect and more in line with the needs of end-users.
4. The DC motor-driven electric vibrating/oscillating knife can produce a high frequency up to 20,000 times/min, which provides strong support for high-speed cutting up to mm/s.
5. The simple operation interface can switch between Chinese and English, easy to learn and use.
Post time: Jun-07-