For engineers and labs who need precise small parts the same day, and right the first time. Studio proves any program — from its own CAM, your CAM or your AI — on a physics twin of the MC-1 that runs the machine’s own controller firmware: drives, spindle, cutting forces, chatter, collisions. When the part comes out right in the twin, the same file runs on the same machine.
The CAM, the simulator and the mill share one design, one firmware and one set of settings: the program you check in the twin is the program the machine runs, and what the cut does there is the physics model's estimate.
Give Studio a drawing, a mesh, a line of text or a shape your AI describes. Its CAM writes pockets, contours, adaptive clearing or 3D finishing for this machine, with spindle speed, depth and feed set from the twin's physics. Or bring G-code from your own CAM.
In StudioThe controller's check mode parses every line, and 15 rules catch what it accepts but should not. The run finds rapids into stock, collisions and soft-limit alarms, predicts chatter, compares the part with your CAD, and the optimizer makes it faster without a heavier cut.
In StudioThe MC-1's controller runs the same firmware with the same settings. Each machine is to be measured at commissioning and its twin set to the measurements, and shadow mode flags the moment the machine and the twin disagree (a preview in 1.0: tested with a second twin standing in for the machine, not yet on a real one).
On the MC-1Most simulators draw the toolpath. Studio simulates the controller, the drives, the spindle and the cut, at the timing of the real hardware.
Twinwright's controller firmware with the MC-1's pin map and settings — the same code the MC-1 ships with. Error and alarm codes come from the firmware itself and are explained in plain language.
Following error, pull-out torque and drive alarms; at the higher levels, ball-screw stiffness, backlash and the impacts inside the play.
The Huanyang VFD’s Modbus protocol, ramps, load and stall, DC-bus hold-up — and what happens when the cable breaks mid-cut.
A height-map workpiece down to 0.01 mm with real tool shapes: flat, ball, bull, V, drill, thread mill, T-slot and dovetail, undercuts included.
Cutting force and torque for 17 materials, spindle load, tool deflection and stability lobes: Studio suggests a spindle speed its chatter model predicts to be stable, and points out a cut that could break the tool (an estimate).
Lead-screw error tables, straightness, squareness, backlash and thermal growth. Run ISO 230-2 positioning and ISO 230-4 circle tests on the twin.
Inductive limit switches, tool setter, E-stop and contactor, power loss and cold start. Inject a broken wire or a glitching sensor and watch how the machine fails.
Place blanks in a vise, under clamps or on tape, or load your own STL blank. If the cut outgrows the grip, the part slips — as it would.
Studio computes toolpaths for this machine — pockets with islands, contours, adaptive clearing, engraving, 3D roughing and finishing — sets speed, depth and feed from the twin's physics (estimates with nominal parameters), and runs the program to the end in the twin before you see it. Then the editor answers line by line: how long each line took, why a feed was not reached, which rule it breaks.
An MCP server is built into Studio. Turn on the AI switch and click Connect: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or a local model can set up a blank, have Studio's CAM write the program, check, simulate and optimize it, and look at pictures of the result — before anything reaches a real machine.
Machined 6061-T6 plates, HGR15 linear rails on every axis, C7 ball screws with fixed and floating end supports, closed-loop steppers and an 800 W water-cooled spindle. 200 × 150 × 80 mm of travel for aluminium, brass and engineering plastics.
Founders’ batch from $4,990
Indicative prices. USD and EUR exclude VAT or sales tax, duties and shipping; CNY includes 13 % VAT. In the US the MC-1 ships from US stock with the import duty paid: $5,999, the R&D & Lab bundle $9,999.
Fit-critical aluminium, brass and plastic parts the same day: try three versions before lunch instead of waiting days for each, and keep unreleased designs in the building.
Meet the MC-1 →Microfluidic chips, optical mounts and fixtures from design to test in a day, without the central-shop queue — and a twin that documents how each part was made.
Research & labs →Learn CNC in the twin for free: crash it, overload it, let an AI try anything. Then make your own parts on the machine the twin models.
See the example parts →Each one is a part an engineer would order — toleranced, drawn to ISO, sized to the standard parts it mates with — and each program is run to the end in the twin and compared with its design.
Every run replays bit for bit. The example parts and the test results are published with their numbers, and the controller firmware is compared with a reference engine on 26,701 random programs and runs 78 programs from open-source projects. Where a figure is still a design value, we say so.
Download Studio — learning is free. Draw a part or load an example, run it in the twin — and when the part comes out right, the same program runs on the MC-1.
