Laser cutting features

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:20:05 +0000

For some certain reasons there are no perfect ways to machining so hard materials as steel and that’s why there are still many people on researching side. They are looking for more and more universal solutions and not to expensive at same time with high precision and accuracy. Flexibility and eventuality for setting up the whole kit to the individual purposes and preferences is very important value also. So we should have the knowledge about some limitations of technologies we choose to reach our goals. It is important if you are going to buy laser cutting machine for your purpose. Some promotional flayers are tend to avoid this kind of information, focusing on adventages only. Here are some important info for you:

in most cases, minimal radius of the the hole made by laser beam is equal to half of steel sheet thickness.
the quality (smoothness) of cutted edge for the final products (elements) in most cases when meagre sheets are machined. With the increasing thickness of steel sheets the edge can not be so smooths, and further processing can be required sometimes. It is caused by the laser beam power so if you are going to cut thicker material you need more power than declared “highest values” in machine specification manual.
the most of cutting machines doesn’t allow to set up laser beam axis so you can cut in the right angle only.

Flexibility of laser cutting

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:31:22 +0000

High focus of the laser beam on the operating point minimizes structural changes of processed material. In result the affected area by high temperatures is very narrow and steel in the point where laser beam points is vaporized. To make this process even more effective special reactive gas or (neutral nitrogen, oxygene) can be used, which ventilates and refrigerates cutted area, pulling out the waste in liquid and steam state. The kind of gas can be adjusted to processed material and the other parameters like quality and speed of cutting. Mentioned elements can cause the final cost be cheaper or more expensive, but flexibility in that case is also unbeliveable. Constant progress in that technology makes possible to archieve better results, more economic cost for the client and free positioning of machined material.

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Laser cutting features

Flexibility of laser cutting