Trotec's Speedy 360

[Scott Shepherd]

I know Keith posted a link a while back showing a link to the new Trotec Speedy 360 that was coming out. Well, it's at the Philly NBM show. REALLY REALLY nice machine. I was really impressed. One thing I'll say about the factory people at Trotec. They are very studied about their approach to things. They don't appear to just throw ideas at things and "see if they work". They seem to gather a ton of information, formulate a plan, and then execute the plan. The thing that attracts me to it all is that it's not so much a "new" platform, but rather it's all built on the same concepts of the 300 and 400. It appears to take the best of both of those machines and make a new machine. There's nothing unfamiliar with it. It looks like a baby 400 :)

Josh (the Trotec application guy) took the time to take the covers off and show me the inner workings of it, and it's definitely more beefy than the 300. I like the table with the quick change modular tables, the ability to adjust the airflow rate is now there, which is awesome. I think the table weight limit is higher than the 300 because there is a monster motor for bringing the table up and down. Also, it's not officially a pass through machine, but it looked to me like you could do pass through work because of the way the panels were oriented for "cleaning" ;)

I didn't know the machine was going to be at the show, so I didn't go there looking for it, but I'm glad I saw it, it looks like it's going to be a nice machine for their lineup. I like the way they build on what has a proven track record rather than starting from scratch and having to work out all those growing pains.

If you are heading to NBM, check it out.

[Walt Langhans]

What.. no pictures!?!?

[Scott Shepherd]

LOL, sorry, I didn't take any :( Had a great conversation about some features and improvements in that machine and some updates coming to the next release of the software. I'm REALLY looking forward to see the next version of the software ;)

[Keith Winter]

Thanks for sharing, sounds awesome!

[Jerome Stanek]

What.. no pictures!?!?

I'm not sure about this show but the ones I went to didn't allow pictures. They wouls escort you out if they caught you.

[Scott Shepherd]

Keith, look out for the next version of JCX! I think you'll be quite happy with it. From what I heard, I'm going to be happy with it :)

The 360 is just a stout, beefy machine that will fit through a doorway!

It was great talking to Josh, he probably gets to play on the machines more than anyone else there, so he has a really good working knowledge of how people are actually working with the machines, as well as catching bugs because he's a bit deeper into the software than most people.

[Jack Clague]

I know it does not show much but here is the official video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXBuV5J4nRA

[Keith Outten]

Thanks Steve I'll be watching for the upgrade.
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[Joe Malovich]

I saw it too but I didn't take as close a look as you did. They had the flexx model and one thing I really liked was the quality of the interior lighting, It evenly lit the entire bed. No other laser I saw was quite as good. I don't have any pictures, sorry. I was there from 2pm to 5pm saturday with 6 hours of driving on either side of my visit. They also told me about their trade in program where if you had any metal tube laser they would take it in on trade for $10,000 towards a new trotec. I didn't spend as much time in the trotec booth as I should have, I scoped out ULS and Epilog as well as many of the other laser-related booths at the show.