Test Your PCB Design with MIPEC
Considering a MIPEC PCB milling machine? Evaluate how mechanical milling, drilling and routing handle your own PCB design before choosing your equipment.
Evaluate a MIPEC Machine on Your Design
This service is intended for companies, laboratories, schools and individual buyers considering the purchase of a MIPEC PCB milling machine.
Send us your Gerber and Excellon data and tell us how you plan to use the machine. We review each request and agree the sample scope with you before machining.
Approved sample machining and detailed result photographs are free. Physical shipping is optional and paid.
The shipping amount paid is deducted from the price of a subsequent MIPEC milling machine purchase.
Request an Evaluation →How It Works
Tell Us About Your Application
Send your PCB files in a ZIP archive. Describe your intended machine use, your current prototyping method and your expected purchase timeframe.
We Agree the Evaluation Scope
We discuss your requirements, review the files and confirm a suitable sample scope. Machining begins only after your request has been approved.
Evaluate the Machining Result
We send detailed photographs free of charge. If you would also like the physical sample, we agree the shipping price with you before dispatch.
Optional Shipping & Purchase Credit
You can evaluate the photographs without ordering physical shipping. If you would like to inspect the sample in person, we can arrange shipment on request.
The shipping price is quoted in advance and paid before dispatch.
If you subsequently purchase a MIPEC milling machine, the amount you paid for shipping the evaluation sample will be deducted from the machine price.
Equipment Evaluation
The purpose of the sample is to help you assess a MIPEC milling machine for your own development work.
Requests and sample scope are approved individually. Sending manufacturing files starts the review; it does not automatically confirm sample production.
Use Your Own PCB Design
Choose a design representative of the boards you expect to produce with your own milling machine.
Gerber and Excellon data allow us to demonstrate isolation paths, copper tracks, drilled holes and routed outlines relevant to your application.
Before machining, we agree which parts of the design and which features will be included in the evaluation sample.
No Gerber Data Available?
Tell us about your intended use of the machine. We can discuss a standard MIPEC example and provide photographs of representative machining results.
If a physical standard sample is agreed, the same shipping and purchase-credit conditions apply.
What You Can Evaluate
Detailed photographs and, if requested, a shipped physical sample help you assess the machining result alongside the machine specifications.
Isolation Quality
Inspect mechanically created isolation paths, track edges and the resulting copper pattern.
Drilled Features
Inspect component, via and mounting holes produced as part of the PCB machining process.
Board Contours
Evaluate routed board outlines, cut-outs and other mechanically machined features in the PCB substrate.
Photographs & Presentation
With your explicit prior agreement, photographs of the manufactured sample may be used on the MIPEC website and in promotional materials.
We discuss any promotional use with you before machining and confirm the selected photographs before publication. Your Gerber and Excellon files are not published.
Your name, company or project details are included in a presentation only if specifically agreed with you.
Confidential Designs
Please tell us about any confidentiality requirements when requesting the evaluation.
For confidential projects, a private evaluation without publication can be agreed individually.
Sample PCBs Produced with MIPEC Equipment
The examples below show PCB samples produced using MIPEC mechanical milling and drilling equipment.
Request a Machining Evaluation
Tell Us What You Plan to Produce
Please include the following information in your request:
- Your name; company or institution is optional.
- What you intend to use the milling machine for.
- How you currently produce PCB prototypes.
- Your expected timeframe for purchasing a machine.
You can also mention a model of interest and any confidentiality or photo-use preferences. If you are still exploring your options, please tell us.
Attach your Gerber and Excellon files in a ZIP archive, if available. Shipping details can be agreed later if you request a physical sample.
The button opens a prefilled email. Add your answers and attach your ZIP archive before sending. You can also email info@mipec.eu directly.