"CNC" english wheeling of aluminum plates

All the wheeling info I have found online for large aluminum/steel plates use very large english wheels (with a powered anvil wheel) ... but also look like they are manually controlled (ie an "art").

I am wondering if there is such a thing as plug your shape into a CNC controller have the wheeling happen automatically?

Here is a pick of the wheeling process for an FPB boat ... and looks fairly manual.

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Here is a video of a wheeled plate done for Mobius (1m 30s if the link does not take you to the right spot) ... the lines/marks are from wheeling and they look soooo linear it makes me think there may have been some automation here.

 

Building an english wheel and then making hull plates using it. Some skilled workers.

 

Great link ! I had not found that one.

For the plates in the mobius link I sent earlier ... those are large/thick enough to not really be moved around by hand ... would love to find a video that shows how to deal with these super large plates.

In the FPB/Circa picture, you can see the giant plate is hung from a gantry (or something) and is likely moved around by the gantry I would think.

 

I know one of the automakers built something like that as a proof of concept, but can't find a video of it. Not something that you could so without a huge budget though.

 

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