Computer-to-plate (CTP) know-how is used every day in offset, flexography, and display-printing workshops. Second, owing to the nature of the cutting tool (which is a polished single crystal diamond), solely a very few cutting operations may be realized (in contrast with conventional multi-axis machining), which are primarily limited to single edge circumferential milling (fly-cutting) and ball-end milling, the latter being used if small radii of curvature make fly-slicing impractical.
It’s hoped that microscopic wear fashions which include section transitions and chemical reactions at the tribological interfaces, obtained by molecular dynamics simulations, will make an necessary contribution to the fundamental understanding …