Here, at Stoney CNC, we offer a range of standard industrial plasma cutters. Click on the link below for more information on the CR Plasma Powercut 10 x 5 CNC plasma cutting system.
The Powercut plasma cutter comes in 8 x 4 foot, 10 x 5 foor and 4000 x 2000mm sizes. We can also build custom machines (see more below).
Find out more details here on the Powercut 10 x 5 Machine Series .
The POWERCUT CNC plasma cutter is available as an educational package with full safety system integrated as standard.
We now offer the option to upgrade any 3 axis CNC package to be compatible with plasma cutting technology. The machine shown here was designed specifically for a customer who wanted both 2D cutting to very high accuracies and who also wanted a custom made tube cutting system.
The parts were all previously fabricated using conventional techniques. We were approached and asked if we could provide an automated system to make the parts given the demand for volume production was growing. We worked with the customer to provide the system shown to help make the manufacturing of the parts as efficient as possible.
An important factor for us was the customer journey when using the machine, as well as the machine itself. As the users of the system did not come from IT backgrounds and had limited experience on computers, a big challenge for us was in the training and in provision of a system that was as easy to use as possible. As per all our systems we focused on a dedicated integrated software approach where all aspects of the machine use (Design, CAM and control) were hosted on the control PC. This way we could ensure a smooth journey for the users through the various steps to use the plasma cutting system.
We designed the machine to operate in two modes:
The Plasma cutter works in the same way as a standard 3 axis CNC router. We run the plasma cutters using the same Mach3 controller as our other CNC router systems.
SheetCAM is required to generate the toolpaths for plasma cutting as the torch (equivalent to the spindle) must be turned on and off between each cutting profile.
The 4 axis cutting toolpaths are generated from 3D CAD geometry and are programmes in house using our own approach to 4 axis cutting.