CNC operations and machining

«CNC operations and machining» is everything a numerically controlled machine does to a part once its size and edge have been set: drilling, grooves, rebate and rabbet, cuts and chamfers, cutouts, contour milling, surface operations, cut-to. If the cutting defines the shape of the blank and the edge banding covers its edges, this section is responsible for the «filling»: holes for hardware, grooves for the back panel and the drawer bottom, recesses for built-in handles and locks, shaped and decorative contours.

In iFurn.pro the machining is set by the technologist right in the project. Every part has an operations menu: you choose the type, open its window and enter the parameters — coordinates, diameter, depth, length, side, tool. What exactly is available and how much it costs is determined by the company: an operation appears in the menu only if the production has the right machine, and the rates are set in the company's services catalog. The technologist does not choose the machine and does not write the control program — they describe what the part should end up with.

The section is built for speed and repeatability. Identical operations are copied and mirrored between parts and sides; frequently used grooves and sets of holes are saved as templates and applied in one click; for projects with hundreds of identical operations there is a tabular (Excel-like) input. Apart stands the surface-operations mode — when the machining is applied to the face of the part (top/bottom) rather than to the edge.

Each subfolder describes its own type of machining — the interface, the parameters and how the operation gets into the estimate and into production:

• Drilling — boring holes: single and grouped, into the edge or into the face, linked to the company's drilling tools.
• Grooves and groove templates — straight grooves along the edge and the face (width, depth, length, coordinates) with saving frequent grooves as templates.
• Rebate and rabbet — a stepped removal along the part edge for joining fronts and forming a rabbet.
• Cuts and chamfers — a cut of the part corner or a chamfer along the edge: angle, length, coordinates, tool.
• Cutouts and pockets — a blind pocket in the body of the part for built-in handles, locks, hinges, with edge processing inside the cutout.
• Advanced milling — an arbitrary milling contour: import from CAD, step-by-step building, shaped and decorative cutouts.
• Surface operations — a mode where drilling, grooves and contours are applied to the face of the part rather than to the edge.
• Tabular input of operations — bulk entry of operations across many parts at once through an Excel-like table.
• Machining templates — ready-made sets of drilling, grooving and milling for typical production cases.