Almacam USA Products CAM software for 2D cutting act/cut for waterjet cutting act/cut advantages in waterjet cutting

act/cut advantages in waterjet cutting

Significant material savings

Significant reduction of loss rates thanks to automatic nesting performance, resulting from several available strategies.
Optimized use of remnant sheets or off-cuts of any shape.
Optimized nesting in case of common cut.

Automatic configuration of cutting parameters and lead-ins/outs.
Possibility to operate in full automatic mode (for nesting and tool path generation).

Optimal adjustment of cutting conditions (speed, abrasive dosage) according to various parameters (material, thickness, surface, perimeter, part geometry).
Automatic speed decrease in corners to ensure the quality of the cutting results and avoid waterjet diffraction (according to the expected cutting quality and the used material and material thickness).
Management of pre-pierced holes at the very beginning of the process or during the whole process).

Optimized and automatic calculation of tool path, including in case of common cut.
Automatic or interactive control of fast trajectories in head-up or head-down modes.
Automatic or interactive control of multi-head cutting.

Reduced piercing thanks to the addition of bridges between parts that enable continuous cutting.
Automatic control of cutting parameters (abrasive dosage, water pressure) according to the material to cut.

Availability of several strategies to prevent collisions between the cutting head and cut parts (or parts already cut) that may have toppled over: head lifting up, parabolic trajectory, cut part by-pass, or use of specific sequences minimizing risky passing over cut parts.
Skeleton cutting management with various possible parameter settings to ease cut-off removal.