Hello my name is Bob, I am a design engineer in a small company in the Midlands at the heart of the UK.

We have a small die foundry and 2 Hurco machine tools a VM20i and a VMX 60i.

I do design cad cam and also sometimes small batch production.

I am in the castings industry and make tooling for sand and die casting.

I a familiar with Bridgeport and Hurco 3 axis machines and Mazak 5 axis.

My programming is almost all offline using Visi machining and Vero machining strategist.