LASER CUTTING
Precision metal cutting
Laser beam fusion cutting is used mostly when oxide-free flat joints are required for stainless steel. Aluminium alloys and non-ferrous alloys with high melting points represent another application.
Cutting on metals is performed with a laser by heating up the material locally above its melting point. The melted material in the focal point of the focused laser beam is removed by a gas directed coaxially to the laser beam and a flat joint is created.
AC-LASER software from ACSYS offers maximum flexibility because cutting contours are loaded simply as a file and can be edited interactively with the graphical user interface.
Oxygen or nitrogen are typically used as the cutting gas for laser precision cutting of metals. Because of the ability to focus the laser precisely, the zone affected by the heat is extremely small, This ensures the cutting edge is generally clean and there is no need for time-consuming subsequent post-processing steps.
