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CNC Milling vs Turning: Which Process Fits Your Part?

Two parts can look equally simple on a drawing and still land on entirely different machines. One needs a lathe, one needs a machining center, and a third needs both. Picking the wrong one is usually not a machining failure — it's a routing failure that shows up later as extra setups, harder inspection, or a price you can't explain. This guide gives you the routing logic engineers actually use: look at the dominant geometry, isolate the feature that controls function, identify the datum it's measured from, and let the process follow. For each decision point it also tells you…