Electronic cut charts are available on the cut chart screen of the CNC or the XPR web interface. For
information about how to find electronic cut charts, refer to the instruction manual that came with your
CNC. Always use these electronic cut charts for full and accurate process-selection information.
Cut charts are also available in the XPR Cut Charts Instruction Manual
(809830).
If the default process ID settings are not satisfactory for your application, use the cut charts to help with
process selection.
The results that you want from a process can help you to select the correct process. In some conditions,
cut quality is important. In other conditions, speed is important. Frequently, the best choice balances
speed and quality. The preprogrammed settings that come with a process ID balance quality and speed
with using moderately used consumables.
Process core thickness (PCT)
The cut chart for each cutting process contains a range of possible thicknesses.
Process engineers have supplied cut parameters for an optimal range of thicknesses (process category 1
for XPR). This optimal range is known as the Process Core Thickness (PCT). Thicknesses that are more
than and less than the PCT can have different results for cut quality, cut speed, and piercing.
Process categories
The cut charts have five process categories. Each category has a unique process category number (1 – 5)
that identifies the performance that is possible when you select that process.
The category number for the process that you select changes how the cut quality and the cut speed are
balanced. For best results, Hypertherm recommends that you select process category number 1 when
possible. Category 1 supplies an optimal thickness (or PCT) for that cut process that balances cut quality
and cut speed.
These tables identify the possible results with different process category numbers.
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