Local Workshops Set To Benefit From New Collaborative Technology Breakthrough.

What happens when you combine two creative computer brains with a bloke who loves his tools, yet has spent years in workshops struggling with complex and expensive computer technology? According to HyCut Australia sales engineer Tony Carty: A practical and affordable solution that is hoped to find its way into workshops of every size and capability.

“Many people have heard of or have used Computer Numerical Control (CnC) in a workshop to cut metal, wood and plastics with precision, but up until now the machines have been very complicated to use, require a lot of training and range anywhere from $29,000 to $1 million,” Mr Carty said.

“But the machines we are developing with Casey and Grant Bajema from Bajtech will start at $5,000 and are so simple to use – they just plug into the computer via a USB, just like a printer, and you use one program to do a multi-faceted job from start to end. Some workshops already use existing CnC machines, but – aside from the massive cost – they deal with headaches like having to transfer the design using a USB stick, using parallel ports and trying to comprehend poor user documentation and lack of support.

“On the whole, Australia is scared of CnC because many people think it’s too hard, but we are simplifying it as much as possible and making it more affordable so that the little guy can now have a CnC machine in his workshop which he can operate straight away with and it will do everything for him – he can use flame to oxycut, plasma to do electric arcs, and routers and small lasers to do woods and plastics. This means he saves time and if he ne.....

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