Inspiration & Examples
Burton and South Derbyshire College
Businesses are forging ever-closer relationships with further and higher education institutions as a way of ensuring that curriculums are relevant for today’s workplaces. The relationships also help to give students valuable experience and to give them ‘work-ready’ skills for when they complete their courses and head out into the world of work.
The collaboration benefits both parties in another way: it also enables innovative businesses to gain valuable feedback from colleges on new products, testing them to see how they work in real life projects.
Swifty in action at home
Like many keen, experienced amateur artists, Martin Long loves to experiment with materials and form. Having designed and built a studio at home so he could focus on his hobby outside his day job of managing director of a marketing firm, he wanted to branch out from his usual stone carving and clay work.
Martin had always liked the idea of creating metal sculptures and is intrigued by metal products – particularly up cycled ones such as furniture created from old aeroplanes and cars – but he never thought it was something he would be able to make in a home studio because the equipment was too big and too expensive.
Swifty spreads its wings
One of the great things about Swifty is that it gives you the freedom to create whatever springs to mind! It’s great for cutting bespoke parts and shapes, and this model aeroplane project is a great example of what can be achieved.
This Swifty user used our clever CNC software to create a series of metal parts that, when assembled, form an impressive model plane. Our software allows you to cut with the precision required to ensure that everything fits together properly.
Create bespoke parts for your vintage car
Create a vast range of bespoke classic car parts with your Swifty CNC. It’s a joy to own a classic car, but it can also be extremly difficult to find high quality replacement parts because most manufacturers no longer make parts for classic car models.
Now, with the new amazing Swifty and its easy to use software you can create your parts and keep your car running for many years to come!
Bringing a logo to life
Full Steam Pictures specialises in food and drink focused film and photography. To celebrate the launch of a fresh new logo and identity, the studio commissioned a unique piece of wall art to display in reception. That’s where Swifty came in!
Swifty is incredibly useful when it comes to replicating complex bespoke shapes. While some use this potential to recreate a car part that’s no longer in production, this project took its CNC capabilities in a more artistic direction.
Make your own custom Flange Parts
Easily create your own custom flanges or other geometric parts with the Swifty CNC machine. Nest your parts on the sheet of metal in our easy to use software for material optimization.
Swifty cutting the Tree of Life
With our amazing Swifty machine you can cut out any of your decorative art or signs ideas. The tree of life for example is the ideal metal wall art hanging home decor.