Deburring and edge quality after laser cutting
What sets edge quality after laser cutting, which burrs matter for coating and welding, thickness limits on a 12 kW fibre laser, and how to specify deburring.
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Laser cutting and sheet metal fabrication
A 12 kW fibre laser on a 40 ft by 16 ft bed changes what a single cut part can be: long canopy and coach panels no longer need splitting and welding. These guides cover how mild steel, CRCA, stainless, aluminium, brass and copper behave, the tolerance and kerf you can hold, nesting and material yield, dross and deburring, and the volume at which a press tool becomes the cheaper route.
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Fibre laser cutting, nesting, edge quality, tolerance and the cost drivers behind a cut part, including long panels cut on the 40 ft × 16 ft bed.
12 kW fibre laser cutting: what it enables
What a 12 kW fibre laser changes from 1 mm to 20 mm, why the 40 ft bed removes welds, and where the extra power makes thin sheet worse.
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Laser cutting tolerances for OEM parts: kerf, holes and flatness
Thickness-by-thickness laser cutting tolerances for OEM parts, where the millimetres come from, and how to dimension a DXF so the cut passes first-off.
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Laser cutting sheet metal enclosures: thickness, tolerance and cost
Laser cutting sheet metal enclosures: the 1.5 mm panel, the ±0.1 mm cut tolerance, the bend that adds 0.4 mm, and the cost arithmetic of one 600 × 400 mm cover.
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Laser cutting vs stamping: cost, tolerance and volume
Laser cutting vs stamping comes down to a crossover quantity you can calculate. Worked break-even for a 2 mm bracket, plus what each process cannot do.
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Laser Cutting Mild Steel: Thickness and Edge Quality
Kerf, dross and edge roughness for mild steel from 0.8 mm to 20 mm, plus the nitrogen-to-oxygen crossover and the drawing notes that follow from it.
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