What is Sheet Metal

Sheet metal fabrication relies on a special set of tools across its cutting, welding bending, punching and joining processes to force the metal into the desired shape. Sheet metal fabrication is the most cost-effective choice for metal components with specified wall thickness. Best Prototypes can provide a wide range of sheet metal capabilities, from high quality cutting, punching, bending, to welding services.

Sheet Metal - Technologies

Laser Cutting

Laser cutters are CNC machines that use a thin, high-powered laser beam to cut materials.
– Cutting area Up to 4000 x 6000 mm
– Maximum material thickness <20mm
– Laser sources Up to 20 kW
– Repeatability Ps: +/- 0.05 mm
– Positioning accuracy Pa: +/- 0.1 mm

CNC Punching

Pushes material through a press into the desired shape, creating either a hole or an indentation. 
– Maximum thickness 
– Hole capacity Up to 50mm
 

Waterjet Cutting

Highly accurate, versatile, and durable, capable of cutting up to 10” thick with abrasive additive in the high-pressure fluid stream. 
– Maximum cutting area Up to 3000 x  
   6000 mm 
– Maximum material thickness Up to 
    300 mm

Plasma Cutting

Offers the variable material cutting capability of lasers with a significantly lower capital cost. 
– Cutting area Up to 4000 x 6000 mm 
– Maximum material thickness <50mm

Sheet Metal - Bending

Forms generally uniform-thickness material to a specific shape or angle along a straight axis. 
– Metal folding capacity Up to 300 tons 
– Maximum bending length Up to 4000 mm 
– Maximum thickness Up to 20 mm

Sheet Metal - Welding

Melts the base materials and fuses it together, forming a metallurgical bond that joins the metals together.

Why Sheet Metal with GD prototyping?

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Economical Cost

Sheet Metal is one of the most economical processing technique to fabircate your parts with uniform wall thickness.

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Rapid Leadtime

We combine our extensive experience with the industry’s latest tools and technologies to deliver high-quality vacuum casting services on short timelines (typically in 7 to 14 days).

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Low Volume Production

The capabilities for Sheet Metal is very tremendous from 1 pc to 100,000 pcs. and this is most effective way to fabricate the sheet metal parts.

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Complex Geometry

This technique can fabricate the complex structure easily with its diverse processes.

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CNC machining parts

We offer a wide range of CNC machining services including milling and turning of various materials, as well as drilling, tapping, EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining), and wire EDM.


Sheet metal

Sheet metal fabrication relies on a special set of tools across its cutting, welding bending, punching and joining processes to force the metal into the desired shape.