From concept to tooling, Special Patterns meets and exceeds the industry requirements.

Here at Special Patterns we now have six CNC machining centres capable of machining a large array of materials up to X-3100, Y- 2100 and Z- 1000mm in size. In February 2007 we took delivery of our second 5-axis machine.

Powerful workstations are used to run Unigraphics NX3 software to perform all of our surfacing, design, drawing and cutterpath needs.

For 3D files, we can read from

• NX3 part files
• Parasolid part files
• IGES files
• STEP files
• STL files

For 2D files, we can read from

• .dwg (AutoCAD)
• .dxf

Our CNC machining centres are directly linked with our network of computers to download a variety of cutterpaths produced in house including roughing, pocket milling, 2D/3D surface milling, 2D/3D profiling, drilling, tapping and scribing.