Thermwood's amazing new Cut Ready Cut Center

[David Nelson1]

Just got this link in the mail. Not affliated... supposedly some kind of advertising is going to be on the the Bloomberg station the 27th of July. Hope its more than this, not that I can afford anything like this just thought this looked interesting. Link is here

[John McClanahan]

Interesting. Long on the bla bla bla, but vague on how this machine works, or how it is different from a CNC.

John

[Bruce Page]

There's better info on the machine in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aJdeerkONE

[Mike Heidrick]

It takes away the CAD and CAM required by a user. You say make a widget this big and it does it.

There is a lot of power in this type of approach to customers that only focus on a specific job type.

[John McClanahan]

Well, it looks like just the thing if you want to compete with Ikea. All jocks aside, I can see where it could be a benefit for some shops. If that's the type of work you produce, pricing from the menus looks simpler estimating CAD/CAM time. Plus, the operator is more of a material handler and button pusher.


John

[Jim Underwood]

Seems like the drawback is that you get no visuals in a 3D room... You'll have to do all your design on paper or some other software.

[Mike Heidrick]

With that much work on the software side of that machine I am guessing there is a sales front end of that machine package.

[Art Mann]

I would hate to be limited by a machine that can only make predefined products, no matter how large the selection - but I don't make kitchen cabinets for a living.