The Street Fighter Store was originally set up in late 2002 for the simple reason that for our own projects we could not find high quality street fighter and custom accessories available anywhere in the UK (as the old proverb states: you cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear) this rings very true when it comes to certain UK manufactured "street fighter/custom" parts of dubious quality and fitment.

Once located overseas these parts then proved hard to buy due to various hurdles such as the language barrier and difficult payment/delivery terms from foreign suppliers.

Then I decided to get into manufacture of my own parts, we purchased a Haas Mini Mill and OneCNC Express from OneCNC in UK.

Even though I had never machined parts before I found using OneCNC Express and the assistance in being trained by Peter from OneCNC I was soon making parts as you can see from my part pictures.

Using the power of OneCNC Express software even though it is the base version of their software is such a dream to use and understand which gave me the immediate confidence needed to make my parts on the CNC mill.

The truth is OneCNC has saved my business due to the problem of the financial crisis and currencies around the world changing making the imported costs higher but now I am manufacturing the parts myself for much less cost than importing them.

Matt Howe
The Street Fighter Store

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Street Fighter Store

Partec (Qld) Pty Ltd, located in Brisbane, Australia is the Plastic and Rubber Technologies education centre.

This picture shows the design/programming room.

Partec has some of the the highest quality and most modern equipment available for training in its field including 5 axis machining centers.

This picture below is shows part of the main training workshop.

Toolmaking is just one of the many popular training subjects at Partec. There are approx 35 apprentices at any one time studying ‘Toolmaking’, being trained using the best CAD/CAM software and on the best machines with the best cutters. This combination helps to make teaching easier, therefore increasing the student’s confidence to be able to complete the most difficult jobs with ease.

Partec’s philosophy is to use leaders from Industry to teach students what industry wants. Partec must be doing something right, not only have I had the pleasure of training "The Apprentice of the Year for Queensland for 2007", but also "The Apprentice of the Year for Australia for 2008 and 2009".

This picture below shows 3 students in discussion with Instructor Colin Gossip (left).

What I can say about OneCNC, is that while it is fantastic for use in industry – it excels as a powerful teaching tool as well. I have used OneCNC for over 9 years now, and now I am teaching with time to research other products. I have used a wide range of software, and so far, nothing can match OneCNC. Today, with new cutter coatings and learning how high speed machining/toolpathing and 5 axis machining, jobs are being achieved in less time and with a much higher quality. It’s a great pleasure to pass this knowledge along to the young – our apprentices.

Colin Gossip - Teacher Tooling/Design

PARTEC INSTITUTE
1030 Cavendish Road
Mt. Gravatt, Queensland
Australia 4122.
Phone: 07-38497878
Fax: 07-38497876

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Teachers / Instructors
OneCNC has a dedication to education. Our dedication continually provides teacher training and educator support to universities and colleges. OneCNC has years of experience in the educational market and that helps us understand the needs for training. OneCNC is a popular CAD CAM product throughout the world in many languages which means that the products for teaching are industry proven.

Contact your local OneCNC office:

As technical director for OneCNC UK multi-axis training is often now part of my day. It can be challenging work but it can also be enjoyable and rewarding especially when you have nice equipment and a good user.

GMT CNC Machining of 253 New Road Portsmouth PO2 7QY, UK is one of these examples they recently purchased OneCNCXR3 Mill Expert with 5 axis and I was booked to assist with training, sort out any technical issues and assist to set the post for their machines.

Here we have a Heidenhain controlled 5 axis YCM FX350A machining center with a X700 Y520 Z 480 travel and 40T tool capacity, which is just one of many CNC machines in this shop.

The first task was to set the post, then establish the machining procedure, the part holding fixture and program the part. We then set the part in the vice and probed the position.

The next 2 pictures I took during the machining process.

The next pictures show another picture in the process of machining and finally 2 pictures of the finished part.

If you have need of improving your CNC efficiency and you are in the UK call the OneCNC UK office and we will be only too pleased to do the same for you 2,3,4 or 5 axis.

Peter Gillespie

OneCNC UK
James House
Newport Road, Albrighton
WV7 3HA
United Kingdom

ph. +44 (0)1902373054