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"We have a fairly large three-a xis CNC router
that does all of the trimming for the boat hulls
and all of the edge profiling of the boats," he
says, "but it doesn't have the accuracy needed
for moldmaking."
The company began searching for a new CNC
machine, but soon realized it had some challeng-
ing requirements. It found that standard CNC
routers were not accurate enough for moldmak-
ing, and conventional VMCs had inadequate work
areas to machine some of the molds. This problem
was compounded by the small, 200-square-foot
area on the shop floor that Hudson had allocated
for the machine. "We don't have a lot of room in
The company decided to
make the molds itself,
but it needed a new
machine to do so. Cam
Fisher, a mechanical
engineering technolo-
gist at Hudson, says the
MLCube meets the
company's challenging
requirements, including
having a large machin-
ing area and small
footprint.