Basically as you get away from the super common materials into the more exotic materials and you get a thicker like up to a foot thick then you re getting into the realm where waterjet shines.
Water cutting steel plate.
Water cutting steel products steel plate water jet cutting services laser profile cutting services for steel water jet cutting is an industrial process that allows the user to cut a variety of different materials including steel.
This is done by using only a high pressured jet of water or a mixture of water and an abrasive material.
Moving up to plate still a lot of processes can cut mild steel in plate.
Stainless steel a water jet can cut a sandwich of different materials up to four inches thick.
Edge quality has a sweet spot that depending on cutting current generally ranges from about 1 4 inch up to 1 5 inches.
This odorless dust free and relatively heat free process can also cut something as thin as five thousandths of an inch.
That is where plasma is tricky.
The tiny jet stream permits the first cut to also be the final finished surface.