Tormach’s New Personal CNC is for Makers

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

One of the traits that makes Tormach such an interesting company is that they're makers at heart. This is evident in their line of personal, as in personal computer, CNC (computer numerically controlled) machines – PCNC for short. Today's Check it Out link takes you to a landing page on a new desktop PCNC from Tormach that makers at heart who long for their own machinery will want to check out.

Tormach's soon-to-ship PCNC 440 is a personal-sized, professional-level CNC machine. It seems designed for anyone sick and tired of outsourcing their prototypes because they don't have the space or the CAM software for a CNC machine. Or maybe it's shelling out the bucks that block your path. Here's how the PCNC 440 addresses these issues.

Cost: The base price is comparable to the tab you run up outsourcing a handful of jobs or for a middling of a desktop engineering computer before you tack on a CAM package, which often cost more than a workstation. The PCNC 440, however, comes with a one-year commercial subscription to the Autodesk Fusion 360 cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool, eliminating your software outlay entirely while getting you doing real CAM design work. The machine also comes with Tormach's own professional-level machine controls that can create CNC programs at the machine without the need for a CAD/CAM package.

Next, the PCNC 440 can fit into an office space or the archetypal entrepreneur's garage. Its footprint measures a petite 40 x 32 x 42 in. without a stand, and it weighs 450 lbs. Electrical requirements are just 115 VAC single phase with a 15A breaker. So, fussing around to accommodate it is not needed.

The PCNC 440 has a roomy 10 x 6.25 x 10 in. work envelope and a 300 to 10,000 RPM spindle speed. You can cut what you want, whether that's plastics, wood, aluminum or something harder like steel or titanium.

Tormach's new PCNC 440 CNC (computer numerically controlled) machine has features found in larger machines yet can fit into any sized shop. Image courtesy of Tormach Inc.

Now, when you hit today's Check it Out link and arrive at the PCNC 440 webpage, first scroll to the bottom and find the video. It's just a minute and half, but it'll give you a good look and feel for what this baby can do. Below the video, click on the PCNC 440 Product FAQs link. You can download a spec sheet there. The PCNC 440 could be the one makers at heart have ached for.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

Check out the PCNC 440 here.