Cam Craft
Computer in Cape Town

Using computerised routers to cut profiles in soft materials. CNC Routing in Cape Town, South Africa.

Cam Craft offers a computerised wood cutting service, with the use of CNC Routers. The drawings we use are coded and fed into the CNC Router. What we do is very similar to what most people think of as laser cutting; the difference is that we use spindles and not lasers, water jet, or plasma cutters to cut. Cam Craft caters for a huge variety of industries and over the years we have accumulated a diverse customer base such as architects, naval architects, artists, framers, interior designers, industrial designers, film companies, set builders, joiners, shop fitters and big franchises etc. Whether you need a small, once off, order or a high volume order processed, Cam Craft is more than happy to assist you. Screen designs have many purposes such as room dividers, partitioning, cladding for walls, doors, ceilings and counters. Designers have also used screens to create hanging artwork, light boxes and have added them on top of mirrors for a creative look. We are able to cut new designs supplied by the client. CAM Craft has four large CNC routers with excellent Italian spindles for neat cutting. The four machines allow us to get our production up and thus cut huge film job, or large component, orders in a very quick manner. It also allows us to cut four different tiny jobs in excellent lead time. All machines have a sacrificial table top that allows cutting right through the material. We also have a vacuum table system that allows us to hold big board’s flat during machining. There is always a possibility we may expand our machine collection into laser or five axis machines, etc. We also cut some plastics, foams, Corian, magnaboard, laminated cork and printed ply. We stock a limited amount of full and cross cut boards of MDF in all thicknesses. We also stock a limited number of Birch and pine ply for better turnaround times. CAM Craft uses a computer based CAD system to create the cutting files for the CNC routers. We can also read vectorised AI, EPS and PDF formats and are able to convert them to a DXF. If the design is non-specific on all dimensions, e.g. a rabbit figure, then a. jpeg of the sketch will work too. No matter what type of CAD or graphic, we generally only need a plan view drawing. All art work in any form should have at least one dimension so we can check and create the right scale factor. If you need slots and recesses please make it clear with notes or side profiles of your requirements. Cutting rates (how we charge) are based on cutting time. Time is influenced by length of line (distance of cut), thickness of material (how many passes required), type of material (hard materials cut slower and soft materials cut faster) and whether there is complicated machine setup. We can only quote once we have all this information.