From files to the floor — watch it happen.
Six real screens, one part: open the site, sign in, drop the STEP and the drawing, read the plan, watch it machined, and send the job package to the floor.
- 1Open meklyra.com
- 2Sign in
- 3Drop STEP + drawing
- 4Plan ready — under a minute
- 5Watch it machined
- 6Job package to the floor
From files to a job package.
Four steps, nothing hidden in between.
Load the part
Upload the STEP model with its drawing. The engine reads true B-Rep geometry — holes, pockets, steps in a bore, datums — and checks the model against the drawing's callouts.
The playbook plans it
Setup order, workholding, work offsets, tools and cutting data — each decided by a written rule with its provenance shown, from your crib first and the manufacturers' catalogues second.
Review and hand off
Watch the simulation strip the stock operation by operation, read the why behind every choice, and print a production instruction the shop floor can actually set up from.
The floor closes the loop
Release the job to the tablet at the machine — drawing, tools, inspection sheet. What actually ran comes back signed, and becomes the verified record the next part plans from.
Watch it work on a real part — in the open.
MEK-DEMO-07 is a demo part we made for exactly this page: an 80 × 50 × 30 mm aluminium block with a pocket, four through holes, two Ø2 holes drilled into its side face — the kind of feature that costs a 3-axis shop a third setup — and the letter M engraved 0.3 mm deep in its top face, a job for a Ø2 cutter at a speed the machine's own spindle cannot give. With Colibri Spindles' TJM90-21, a coolant-driven 90° micro jet head, the plan drills the side holes from the top; with their GJET jet spindle it engraves the M at the shop’s own fixed 35,000 rpm (CD-01 c), from the 40-bar pump Colibri Spindles requires. Customers' parts stay private, so we published our own — and every number below is what the system actually reported on this build, not marketing. Download the STEP and the drawing and run them yourself — on your own machines, tools and cutting data the numbers will be yours, the reasoning the same.
Every line above opens into its reasoning. This is what the system answered, word for word, when asked why setup 1 is done this way:
Long dimension (84 mm) along machine X, 54 mm across the jaws. The jaws close on the blank's two 84 × 35 mm sides. Sit it on 25 mm parallels so 31 mm stands proud of the jaws. 4 mm of stock inside the jaws. Profile down to 31 mm from the top — the part's full height and a step into the grip stock SET-53. Side holes f4 Ø2, f5 Ø2 drilled in the main setup with the 90° coolant-driven head Colibri Spindles TJM90-21 — one setup fewer SET-54; the head's body (Ø27) must clear the part and the vise — verify on the setup. Zero (G54): X0 Y0 at the front-left top corner of the stock, Z0 on the top face SET-51.
Recommendation → written rule → reasoning. Not a black box — a rulebook you can read, question, and overrule.
It tells you what will not machine — and shows you exactly where.
The model is checked against your shop's limits the moment it lands: wall thickness, hole depth, how many directions the tools must come from, clearance and tapping diameters. A critical finding is not a footnote — it opens a section through the part with the spot marked in red, what it means, and what to do about it.
- Thin walla wall under your shop's minimum — where, and by how much
- Deep holedepth over diameter past the drill's limit — peck or a long-series drill
- Many setupsmore tool directions than the machine can give in one clamping
- Clearance holea diameter that matches a standard clearance size — named, not guessed
- Tapping drilla hole that matches a tap's drill size — the thread the drawing must confirm
- Reachevery face reachable by a tool from the setups planned
- Thinnest wallthe thinnest section on the part, measured, against the typical
Not a mockup. These are the working screens.
Every number on them was decided by a rule you can read — the blue chips are the rule ids. Sign in and drive it yourself.
Two setups, not three — because the plan knows your tools.
MEK-DEMO-07 has two Ø2 holes in a side face. On a plain 3-axis machine that is a third setup — or a job for a 5-axis machine. The plan found the coolant-driven 90° head in the shop's own tool list, drilled the side holes from the top, and closed the job in two setups in the vise, 11 machining operations, 2:52 of cutting. The letter M is engraved in a jet spindle at the shop’s own fixed 35,000 rpm on a machine whose own spindle stops at 8,000. And every open question is said out loud: a drill is not on the shelf, and the plan says so.
The setter gets a sheet, not a screenshot.
The drawing, the process sheet, the tool list and the inspection sheet — on a tablet by the machine. The operator types a measured value and sees green or red against limits computed from the drawing (ISO 286), signed with name and time. In Hebrew for a setter who does not read English.
One card per machine. Who, what, how far.
Who is signed in, which job and setup is running, tools confirmed, the last measurements, the last events across the shop — refreshed every ten seconds. Every line is a signed entry from a tablet.
A solution for the shop that has no 5-axis machine — and for the one that does.
You run 3-axis
A side hole, a cross-hole, an undercut — the features that used to mean a third setup or "we can't take this job". MEKLYRA plans them with the devices already in your list: a coolant-driven 90° head drills from the top; a jet spindle gives a Ø2 cutter 47,000 rpm on an 8,000 rpm machine. Fewer setups, no new machine.
You run 5-axis
The same rules plan the fewest setups your machine can reach, and the same devices still cut a setup or a re-clamp where the part allows it — the plan says which, with its reason. Nothing is planned by the file's axes; the part's own faces decide.
The tools that make it possible
Coolant-driven heads and jet spindles run off the machine's own high-pressure pump — no drive, no wiring. The ones on this page are Colibri Spindles' TJM90-21 Micro-90 head and TJS-GJET-BT40 jet spindle, drawn in the walkthrough from the models the maker publishes for exactly this. Another maker's device in your list is planned the same way.
See what they change on this part — the Setup Saver: the same part planned with and without them →