What is Tube Laser Cutter? – A Ultimate Guide

Why choose laser for tube cutting?

In actual production, the tube laser cutter has the advantages of low production cost, good formability, the light weight of structural parts and material saving, so tube cutting has an important position in the industrial field.

Like the shape, size and application of tube are different, and the cutting of the tube is subject to factors such as processing quality, it is crucial to select reasonable machining equipment, processing methods and technological measures.

However, there are many inconveniences in tube cutting. Even if the traditional cutting methods can achieve the application effect, the processing efficiency is low and the processing efficiency is poor.

Therefore, the combination of tube cutting and laser technology will make the tube cutting field have a broader development prospect.

What is tube laser cutter?

The tube laser cutting machine is mainly used to cut various metal hollow round pipe materials, such as stainless steel pipe, carbon steel pipe, galvanized pipe and other industrial and civil metal pipes.

This kind of pipe is generally used in building materials, industrial pipes, office furniture, sports and fitness equipment and so on.

The tube laser cutting machine adopts fiber laser and is the preferred cutting machine for small and medium-sized enterprises.

With the maturity and rapid development of laser technology, it has begun to be widely used in various industries.

The laser cutting technology has also developed from sheet metal cutting to metal tube cutting.

The birth and application of the professional laser tube cutting machine have greatly improved the processing efficiency of the metal tubes.

Parts and components of tube laser cutting machine

Tube laser cutting machine is a high-end mechanical equipment for precision processing and cutting of pipe raw materials. It is generally composed of laser generator, load-bearing bed, cutting head, pipe clamping chuck, cooling device and control system.

Working principle of tube laser cutting machine?

Laser pipe cutting machine is a high-efficiency metal pipe cutting machine. The main principle is to use laser irradiation to cut various graphics on pipe fittings and profiles.

It is a processing method that does not touch the surface of the workpiece.

Tube laser cutting machine is a high-tech product integrating numerical control technology, laser cutting and precision machinery.

With the characteristics of professional, high speed, high precision, high efficiency and high cost performance, it is the preferred equipment in the non-contact metal pipe processing industry.

The tube laser cutting machine has great freedom and strong compatibility to the material, shape, size and processing environment of the pipe.

The new pipe laser cutting machine can even cut metal materials with strong symmetry such as I-beam and angle steel.

It has excellent spatial controllability (direction change, rotation, scanning, etc.) and time controllability (on, off, pulse interval) and is easy to control.

Because of the high precision and less burr of laser cutting, the time consumed by subsequent processing is greatly reduced.

When changing the diameter or shape of the pipe, it only needs to modify the program.

Therefore, the development of the pipe cutting software is of great research value.

The combination of laser cutting system and computer numerical control technology can form an efficient automatic equipment, which is a high-quality, efficient and low-cost processing technology.

Advantages of tube laser cutter

The cutting principle between laser cutting machine and plane laser cutting machine is not much different.

As a special laser cutting machine, tube laser cutting machine is mainly used for the standard metal tube (round tube, rectangular tube, oval tube, etc.), profiles (channel steel, angle steel, etc.) and part of the shaped tube.

The advantages over traditional processing techniques are the following:

• It has high cutting accuracy and the contour accuracy can reach ± 0.05mm.
• The kerf is flat, with no burr, fine slit and less material loss.
• It is non-contact processing and laser cutting of the heat-affected zone is very small, with almost no deformation.
• It has high cutting efficiency, which can achieve mass production.
• It has good flexibility, it can change or replace the product at any time with the use of the professional CNC system and suite of material programming software.

Thus, laser tube cutting machines can replace mechanical drilling, milling, sawing, punching or cleaning of burrs and other processes that require equipment and hard tools for processing different metal tubes.

It can realize cutting, chamfering, grooving or hole cutting, scoring and other possible size and shape features of complex tube structures, etc., which is widely used in sheet metal processing, kitchenware, lighting, automotive, medical equipment, hardware, fitness equipment industries.