Front Panel Express LLC uses high-speed milling machines to process pre-cut rectangular main plates into customized front panels. This page lists the most commonly processed main plate materials. Please contact us if you would like to include other materials.

In order to create a new front panel, you have to define the material thickness. With this choice you also determine the complete set of tools which are available for processing the front panel, more or less along the lines of: "The thicker the material, the more stable the tool has to be."

As a result, your design flexibility using object properties is subject to certain limitations as the thickness of the material increases. Whereas up to a thickness of 4 mm for example, a corner radius of 0 mm can be cut out with a 1 mm milling cutter (left picture), when the thickness is 10 mm, only the 3 mm milling cutter (right picture) is available.

You can find a description of the procedure that may be required for a change in material thickness here.

In principle it is not possible for us to process steel. Its comparatively high hardness demands a cutting force for processing, which cannot be transmitted by the high performance spindles of our milling machines.

Among plastics, elastomers in particular can neither be adequately mounted nor systematically machined as a result of their softness. Many plastics quickly become pasty or even liquid during milling because of their chemical composition.

If you do not find the customer material in question described in the above chapters, please contact us with a sample for machining tests.