Waterjet Cutting

Our waterjet cutting services are the fastest in Orange County. United Laser Services offers expedited turn around times for urgent waterjet cutting needs. United Laser Cutting Services offers affordable waterjet cutting services in Orange County and surrounding areas with a 10% discount for first time customers. United also offers free local shipping on all CNC waterjet cutting orders. If you have DXF files we can accurately quote any metal waterjet cutting job in 24 hours or less for FREE. Use our online quote system for automatic file uploads directly to our estimating department.

Pure Waterjet
Hair-thin pure waterjet stream ideal for cutting soft materials.

Standard Abrasive 
Waterjet Uses garnet abrasive to cut virtually any hard material

Uniquely flexible and practical, the Mach 200 waterjet is specifically engineered to deliver value, reliability, and performance. Easily cut materials from stone to carbon fiber, and simple 2D designs to complex bevels — all with capabilities often reserved for elite waterjet systems, at an unparalleled price.

Reliable performance. Incredible value.

A water jet cutter, also known as a water jet or waterjet, is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using an extremely high-pressure jet of water and mixture of water and an abrasive substance. The term abrasive jet refers specifically to the use of a mixture of water and abrasive to cut hard materials such as metal, stone or glass, while the terms pure waterjet and water-only cutting refer to waterjet cutting without the use of added abrasives, often used for softer materials such as wood or rubber.

Waterjet cutting is often used during fabrication of machine parts. It is the preferred method when the materials being cut are sensitive to the high temperatures generated by other methods. Waterjet cutting is used in various industries, including mining and aerospace, for cutting, shaping, and reaming.

With recent advances in control and motion technology, 5-axis water jet cutting (abrasive and pure) has become a reality. Where the normal axes on a water jet are named Y (back/forth), X (left/right) and Z (up/down), a 5-axis system will typically add an A axis (angle from perpendicular) and C axis (rotation around the Z-axis). Depending on the cutting head, the maximum cutting angle for the A axis can be anywhere from 55, 60, or in some cases even 90 degrees from vertical. As such, 5-axis waterjet cutting opens up a wide range of applications that can be machined on a water jet cutting machine.

A 5-axis waterjet cutting head can be used to cut 4-axis parts, where the bottom surface geometries are shifted a certain amount to produce the appropriate angle and the Z-axis remains at one height. This can be useful for applications like weld preparation where a bevel angle needs to be cut on all sides of a part that will later be welded, or for taper compensation purposes where the kerf angle is transferred to the waste material – thus eliminating the taper commonly found on water jet-cut parts. A 5-axis head can cut parts where the Z-axis is also moving along with all the other axes. This full 5-axis cutting could be used for cutting contours on various surfaces of formed parts.

Because of the angles that can be cut, part programs may need to have additional cuts to free the part from the sheet. Attempting to slide a complex part at a severe angle from a plate can be difficult without appropriate relief cuts. United Laser Services has the expertise to waterjet cut your parts TODAY!