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here's a video on facebook of the part being cut:
Its kind of different. you do not program a feedrate, give it material and thickness, tell it how nice an edge and if you want to tilt the kerf*. The machine programs the speed from there. of course, with experience, we can fake in one of these parameters to speed it up. the above part ran around 25ipm. Also, just give the machine a .dxf, it does routes. AND has a nesting module to fit multiple parts on one sheet.
*kerf on a waterjet is larger at the top of the cut. the cutter comp not only is like G41/G42 for part offset but it angles the cut inside or outside to make the cut square on the "good" side of the cut.
Its kind of different. you do not program a feedrate, give it material and thickness, tell it how nice an edge and if you want to tilt the kerf*. The machine programs the speed from there. of course, with experience, we can fake in one of these parameters to speed it up. the above part ran around 25ipm. Also, just give the machine a .dxf, it does routes. AND has a nesting module to fit multiple parts on one sheet.
*kerf on a waterjet is larger at the top of the cut. the cutter comp not only is like G41/G42 for part offset but it angles the cut inside or outside to make the cut square on the "good" side of the cut.
