Reasons To Choose Water
- Wide range of materials
The Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting can work with a wide variety of materials, ranging from metals to ceramics, composites, glass—even marble and granite. - Quality finish
The finish provided by the Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting is a smooth, sandblasted finish. No rough edges, burrs or jagged ends. We can control the edge cut finish to meet your needs. - No heat in machining process
Because the Waterjet uses water and abrasive, the material is not heated up significantly during the cutting process. This makes the Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting ideal for materials that are affected or deformed by heat, such as titanium, foam, wood, heat treated steel and glass. - Environmentally friendly
The Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting uses water and garnet in the cutting process. Garnet is an inert gemstone, which can be disposed of in the municipal waste stream. No toxic fumes are produced during machining. - No tool changing
You don’t need to change cutting tools with the Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting. One nozzle is used to machine all the different types of materials and shapes, saving time and the expense of multiple cutting tools. - Minimal Burr
Using the Waterjet, there is little or no burr in most materials. - Quick to program
The Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting is complete with a comprehensive CAD program (called Layout). You can draw parts from scratch in Layout, or import standard DXF files created in other programs. We can even trace over a photograph or bitmap image. In addition, our machines are supported by a wide variety of third party software products such as CAD/CAM, Nesting, and scanning. - Fast set-up and programming
Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting takes the tool path created by Layout and calculates the exact position and cutting speed of the nozzle at a resolution of over 2,000 points per inch (800 points/cm). - Complement existing tools, used for either primary or secondary operations
The Advanced Quality Water Jet Cutting can also work with your other machine tools to take advantage of the unique capabilities of each. An example of this is roughing out nested parts on the OMAX to maximize material usage, and then performing final machining on a mill or machining center. - Reduce setup times
Little or no side force on the material being machined reduces the need to complex fixtures and greatly speeds setup times. Lead-time generally runs 1 to two days on most jobs. - Price
- Waterjet can be a cost effective solution to most cutting needs.
