From design to reality – grooves made simple
meviy expands groove recognition for CNC turned parts, offering smarter checks and broader design freedom
Building on our earlier success with external Square and V-groove recognition, meviy has further upgraded its automatic quotation (AQ) system for CNC turned parts. The platform now recognises a broader range of outer diameter grooves, including tapered and R-shaped profiles, making it even easier for engineers to quote and manufacture complex turned components.
This enhancement reflects meviy’s ongoing commitment to design freedom and manufacturability, ensuring that what engineers imagine, meviy can deliver—accurately, efficiently, and without compromise.
Smarter Recognition for Real-World Applications
In industries such as automotive, machinery, and factory automation, engineers often need complex grooves for hose fittings, positioning mechanisms, guide rollers, or pulleys.
Previously, such geometries were challenging to quote automatically due to intricate shapes and manufacturability constraints.
With this latest update, tapered grooves are now fully supported for automatic quoting, enabling the creation of flange and nipple components not available as standard products.
Combined with the tapered thread feature, this improvement allows even greater design flexibility and compatibility for high-performance assemblies.
Wider Coverage for Outer Diameter R Grooves
meviy now recognises a broader range of outer diameter R grooves, including chamfered R grooves and large, shallow R profiles.
This update ensures precise manufacturability checks and accurate quotations for parts that rely on R-shaped contours—such as guide rollers, round-belt pulleys, and rotational components used in conveying and alignment systems.
By extending groove recognition, meviy eliminates the need for manual workarounds and trial-and-error adjustments, streamlining the entire design-to-production process.
Improved Reliability and Design Freedom
The enhanced recognition system minimises AQ failures and reinforces meviy’s core promise: reliable manufacturability, faster quoting, and uncompromising quality.
Engineers can now design more confidently, knowing that meviy detects and validates complex geometries with greater precision, ensuring their parts are both manufacturable and accurate.
All delivery options remain available, so even intricate groove designs can move seamlessly from CAD model to finished component without delay.
Why This Matters
Unlike many “black-box” manufacturing networks, meviy offers transparent manufacturability checks and instant feedback – all backed by MISUMI’s trusted quality standards.
This integration of smart automation and proven production gives engineers full control, without compromising on speed or accuracy.
What is meviy
meviy is an AI-powered on-demand manufacturing platform from MISUMI. Engineers can upload 3D CAD models to receive instant quotations, manufacturability checks, and lead time estimates. The platform delivers bespoke components to exact specifications across CNC milling, CNC Turning and Sheet Metals. With no minimum order quantity, teams can order from a single part upwards. By streamlining procurement and accelerating product development, meviy enables engineers to bring designs to life faster. Its AI also supports part recognition, interactive design editing, and compatibility with a wide range of materials – making it a smart and reliable tool for modern product development. Backed by MISUMI’s quality standards, customers can expect consistent precision with every order.
FAQ
1. What types of grooves does meviy now support for CNC turned parts?
meviy’s upgraded system recognises a wider range of grooves, including tapered, R-shaped, and chamfered R grooves. These enhancements make it easier to quote and manufacture complex outer diameter profiles used in components like guide rollers, pulleys, and hose fittings.
2. How does the new groove recognition feature benefit engineers?
The improved recognition allows automatic quoting for complex groove geometries that were previously unquotable. This reduces manual redesign work, speeds up procurement, and enables engineers to create more sophisticated CNC turned parts with confidence.
3. What applications benefit most from tapered and R grooves?
Tapered and R grooves are commonly used in automotive, factory automation, and industrial machinery. They improve functionality in parts such as flanges, nipples, rollers, and pulleys where precise shape control and smooth rotation are critical.
4. Are there any design or material limitations for groove machining on meviy?
Currently, the feature applies to outer diameter grooves in CNC turned parts. While most standard metals and engineering plastics are supported, internal grooves and highly customised profiles may require future updates for full automation.
5. How does meviy ensure manufacturability and accuracy for complex grooves?
meviy’s AI-driven system performs automatic manufacturability checks directly from uploaded 3D CAD models. This ensures each groove design meets production standards, reducing quotation errors and guaranteeing consistent machining quality backed by MISUMI’s standards.
