Tolerance

Tolerance defines the acceptable range of dimensional variation for your part, a specification of plus-or-minus 0.005 inches means your feature can be anywhere within that 0.010-inch band and still be acceptable. Laser cutting inherently achieves tolerances in the range of plus-or-minus 0.005 to 0.010 inches depending on machine class, material type, material thickness, and complexity of your part geometry.

Thinner materials and simpler shapes (straight cuts, large radius curves) achieve tighter tolerance capability, while thick material and intricate detail (small holes, sharp corners) naturally incur wider variation. To deliver consistent tolerance performance, our team carefully controls cutting speed, laser power, assist gas pressure, and focal length during setup, verifying dimensions on sample parts before committing to full production.

When your application demands tighter accuracy than laser cutting naturally provides, we can recommend secondary finishing via CNC machining to tighten specific features while leveraging the speed and cost efficiency of laser cutting for the broader part geometry.