Twinwright Studio runs the MC-1’s own firmware against a physics model of the machine: drives, spindle, cutting forces, chatter, collisions. Learn CNC and prove your G-code for free. When the part comes out right in the twin, run the same file on the same machine.
The simulator and the mill share one design, one firmware and one set of settings, so what you practise is what you will operate.
Start in demo mode and move up through five interface levels, from operator to researcher. Crash the spindle into the vise, trip a limit switch, lose the VFD link — then read what the controller said and why.
In Studio · freeCheck mode parses every line the way the controller will, and twelve rules catch what it accepts but should not. The run finds rapids into stock, collisions, soft-limit alarms and chatter, compares the part with your CAD, and the optimizer makes it faster without a heavier cut.
In Studio · freeThe MC-1 runs the same grblHAL build with the same settings. Each machine ships with its own calibrated twin, and shadow mode flags the moment the machine and the twin disagree.
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.
The grblHAL core, unmodified, with the MC-1’s pin map and settings. 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 that will not chatter.
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.
Write G-code in Studio and the twin answers line by line: how long each line took, why a feed was not reached, which of twelve rules it breaks. Stop the run at a line or when the force climbs, restart from any line, compare versions — then let the optimizer make it faster.
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, check, simulate and optimize a program, 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
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Try toolpaths, speeds and fixtures on aluminium, brass and 7075 without paying for the tools you break while learning.
See the example parts →Give every student a machine they can crash. The twin runs on classroom PCs; the real MC-1 is shared by the lab.
Education →Deterministic, scriptable and instrumented: a lockstep Python API, FMI co-simulation, MTConnect and MCAP recordings.
Research →From an ISO test piece to a watch wheel with 0.3-module teeth. Every program was run to the end in Studio and compared with its design part, then cross-checked with CAMotics.
Every run replays bit for bit. The example parts, the test results and the optimizer's benchmark are published with their numbers, and the bugs the twin found in the grblHAL firmware went upstream with reproductions. Where a figure is still a design value, we say so.
Join the early-access list for the free Studio preview. Load an example, change a line, run it — and when the part comes out right, the same program runs on the MC-1.
