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LML Guide

Your trusted resource for mastering the manufacturing technologies that bring your ideas to life. These comprehensive guides, built on years of hands-on experience, provide the practical insights you need to design for quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness with confidence.

CNC Machining Guide

Your guide to the basics: learn how to use milling, turning, and multi-axis machines to craft accurate custom parts.

  • Select the Right Materials:​ Understand the machining properties of metals, plastics, and composites to choose the best option for your projec
  • Master Design for Manufacturability (DFM):​ Learn key design rules to optimize your parts for easier machining, lower costs, and higher quality
  • Navigate the Manufacturing Workflow:​ Get a step-by-step overview from digital design to finished part, including preparation and quality control.
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3D Printing Guide

Your guide to the basics: explore how to turn digital models into physical parts using popular technologies like FDM, SLA, and SLS.

  • Choose the Right Technology & Material:​ Compare FDM, SLA, and SLS printing methods and their materials (PLA, Resin, Nylon) to match your project’s needs for strength, detail, or flexibility.
  • Optimize Your Design for 3D Printing:​ Learn key considerations like support structures, orientation, and wall thickness to achieve the best print quality and material efficiency.
  • Follow the Digital Workflow:​ Understand the step-by-step process from 3D model preparation (slicing) to post-processing (support removal and finishing) for successful prints.
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Sheet Metal Fabrication Guide

Your guide to the basics: learn key processes like cutting, bending, and assembling to create durable metal structures and enclosures.

  • Understand Material Selection Gauges: Know the differences between steel, aluminum, and other alloys, and how material thickness (gauge) impacts your design and cost.
  • Master Design for Sheet Metal: Learn essential rules for bend radii, reliefs, and tolerances to ensure your parts can be manufactured accurately and efficiently.
  • Navigate the Production Steps: Get an overview of the workflow from blanking and punching to forming and finishing, for a smooth path from design to final product
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Surface Finish Choice Guide

Select the ideal finish to enhance the appearance, durability, and function of your parts.

  • Define Your Finish's Purpose: Identify whether your priority is aesthetics (e.g., appearance), corrosion resistance, wear resistance, or other functional requirements.
  • Compare Common Finishing Types: Understand the characteristics, applications, and costs of popular options like anodizing, powder coating, painting, and polishing.
  • Match Finish to Material Application: Learn how to pair the best finishing technique with your part's material (metal, plastic) and its end-use environment.
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Anodized Color Guide

Discover how to achieve vibrant and durable colors on aluminum parts through the anodizing process.

  • Understand the Anodizing Process: Learn how anodizing creates a porous surface that allows for dye absorption and a hard, protective oxide layer for exceptional durability.
  • Explore Color Options Effects: See the spectrum of available colors, from standard hues to custom matches, and understand how to achieve effects like metallics or two-tones.
  • Ensure Consistent Durable Results: Get key design and specification tips to avoid common issues, ensuring color consistency and longevity for your application.
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Custom CNC + Casting Service

By leveraging the strengths of CNC machining and casting, LML optimizes production efficiency while maintaining exceptional quality standards.

  • 80+ materials & 35+ colors
  • 0.5% dimensional accuracy with a lower limitdown to :0.0059 in (0.15 mm)
  • Lead times from 7 business day
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Aluminum Alloys for Machining

LML offers several aluminum alloys in its long list of available manufacturing materials. Two of those alloys are especially well-suited material options for CNC machining, whether milling or turning: Aluminum 6061 and 7075.Aluminum 7075 T651 and T7: Benefits include high strength, hardness, low weight, corrosion resistance, and high heat tolerance. See data sheet for more information.Aluminum 2024 T3: This high-strength alloy offers a high strength-to-weight ratio and high corrosion resistance. See data sheet for more information.GET INSTANT QUOTE

Customer Case

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Customer story of 1590 Aluminum Box

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From scratch: The birth of e-cigarette Box

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FAQs

LML takes the stress out of manufacturing by guaranteeing the quality and consistency of every part. Each order is dimensionally and visually inspected by our in-house quality control team to make sure it meets the LML Standard. If you’re not satisfied with your order, we’ll remake your parts as fast as possible, free of charge, or refund you - whichever you prefer.
  • Why 5-Axis CNC Machining Has Superior Advatages?
    "5-Axis" generally refers to the ability of a CNC machine to move the tool in five directions, which belongs to a high precision production technology.
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