CNC Material Shortlist Filter

Set what the part has to survive and this returns the grades that clear every one of your limits, with the machinability index beside each so you can see what the choice costs to cut.

Twenty-two grades, from the property tables on the CNC machining materials guide. Values are supplier-published figures for unfilled, wrought or as-noted conditions; a filled or heat-treated variant of the same grade will read differently.

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How to read this

Machinability is indexed to SAE 1112 at 160 HB = 100%, so 270% cuts faster than the datum and 20% cuts far slower. A grade at 20% is not disqualified — it is a grade whose cycle time you should expect to see in the quotation.

What this filter deliberately does not do

It does not rank by price. Stock price and finished-part price rank differently once machine hours are counted, which is why machinability sits in the table instead.

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