Wide range of materials
The Water Jet Center can work with a wide variety of materials, ranging from metals to ceramics, composites, glass, marble and granite.
Quality finish
The finish provided by the Water Jet Center is a smooth, sandblasted finish. No rough edges, burrs or jagged ends.
No heat in machining process
Because the WaterJets uses water and abrasive, the material is not heated up significantly during the cutting process. This makes the Water Jet Center ideal for materials
that are affected or deformed by heat, such as titanium
Environmentally friendly
The Water Jet Center uses water and garnet to cut. 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 Water Jet Center. 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 abrasivejet, there is little or no burr in most materials.
Quick to program
The Water Jet Center comes 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.
You can even trace over a photograph or bitmap image. In addition, machines are supported by a wide variety of third party software products.
Fast set-up and programming
Make is the other main program provided as part of the Water Jet Center. Make 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). All you do is specify the material and thickness and Make does the rest.
Complement existing tools, used for either primary or secondary operations
The Water Jet Center 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 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.