It does when you have a pivoting head under CNC control. You input your material thickness and the software uses speed/direction information to correct for the bevel. -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Klingensmith Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:36 AM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [AD]: (will be) Small CNC mill, controller and software for $ 500 Matt Redmond wrote: > Water/abrasive jet!!! If you've got a spare $50-100 grand . Those are > the coolest machines I've ever seen. > > Water leaves the tip at mach 3 and will slice right through 1" steel. Kerf > width is extremely narrow, typically .5mm or something like that. > It doesn't cut a straight vertical line through the material unfortunately. -- -- Martin Klingensmith http://infoarchive.net/ http://nnytech.net/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.