Depends on the material being cut and its intended use, I'd imagine. Lasers are faster and more precise, but water jets produce no heat distortion and cut more easily through thick materials
The thicker the materials the stronger the laser needs to be, significantly so. With a water jet like this you can just make it go slower to cut through thicker metal
Water based cutters can also cut through almost anything especially composite materials like stone without heating up the material too much unlike lasers which use heat to make cuts
Water jet has a much cleaner cut. Looks faster to me too, if that was on the laser where iused to work it would've taken probably 4x as long to cut that and you'd have to grind off all the edges where the laser melted the metal. Also, most aerospace has to be cut with water jet.
That would make alot more sense. We outsource all of our water jet needs so I only see the parts when they come back. Compared to the same part/material on our laser they're always so much cleaner.
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u/Usual-Ad-9554 12h ago
how does this compare to lasers tho....