How Thick Can a Fiber Laser Cutter Cut Metal? What Power Is Required for Different Metal Materials?

You may know that fiber laser cutters can cut various types of metal materials, but how thick can they cut for different metals? This article lists the cutting thickness for several common metals used with laser cutters, and specifies the required laser power for different sheet thicknesses for your reference.

1. Common Processing Objects of Laser Cutters

Laser cutters have a wide range of applications, generally divided into metal laser cutters, non-metal laser cutters, and special laser cutters. This article focuses on metal laser cutters.

Common metals processed by metal laser cutters include:carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum plate, copper plate, etc.How thick can these metal sheets be cut?

2. Maximum Cutting Thickness for Metal Sheets

·         Maximum cutting thickness for carbon steel: 60 mm

·         Maximum cutting thickness for stainless steel: 50 mm

·         Maximum cutting thickness for aluminum plate: 50 mm

·         Maximum cutting thickness for brass plate: 20 mm

These are the maximum thickness limits using high-power laser cutters. The cuttable thickness varies with different laser power levels.

3. Laser Power Requirements for Different Metals

Each metal has a limit thickness and a practical processing thickness. For mass production in factories, the practical processing thickness is recommended.This ensures longer service life of the laser equipment and higher machining accuracy.

Over-thick plates can be cut only within the maximum thickness limit. Long-term mass cutting at the limit thickness will cause dimensional errors and shorten the laser life.

4. Summary

In practical applications, assisted gas can improve cutting capacity.

The cutting performance of a fiber laser cutter also depends on equipment quality, laser type, working environment, cutting speed, and other factors. The data above provides a practical standard for selecting cutting thickness and power.