SMOOTHCUT - COBOT PLASMA CUTTING SOLUTION
SMOOTHCUT - COBOT PLASMA CUTTING SOLUTION
Weld-Ready Cuts Without the Hand-Cutting
SmoothCut brings easy, precise plasma cutting to your cobot, built on the same programming flange and easy teaching as SmoothTool. Bevels, shapes, and consistent cut quality, every time.
Your Most Skilled Welders Shouldn't Be Doing Manual Cutting Prep
In most shops, the same people who weld are also the ones responsible for weld prep and manual cutting. They hand-measure parts, hand-cut bevels, and clean up rough edges before a part is even ready to weld. This work is slow and repetitive, and it pulls your most experienced people away from the welding work that actually needs their skill and judgment. Automating the cutting step doesn’t just speed up the cut – it moves your skilled people into the higher-value work they’re actually good at.
Your Most Skilled Welders Shouldn't Be Doing Manual Cutting Prep
In most shops, the same people who weld are also the ones responsible for weld prep and manual cutting. They hand-measure parts, hand-cut bevels, and clean up rough edges before a part is even ready to weld. This work is slow and repetitive, and it pulls your most experienced people away from the welding work that actually needs their skill and judgment. Automating the cutting step doesn’t just speed up the cut – it moves your skilled people into the higher-value work they’re actually good at.
What SmoothCut does
Precise Cutting Without the Manual Work
SmoothCut handles general cutting, beveling, and repeatable shapes directly on your cobot, and it keeps every one of those cuts consistent by pulling the right settings automatically instead of relying on an operator’s judgment. That means cutting no longer has to be a manual bottleneck standing between your parts and the welding table.
SmoothCut
What You Can Cut
General Cutting Consistent Every Time
Once a cut is programmed, SmoothCut repeats it with the same quality on every part, with no variation from one operator, shift, or day to the next.
Bevel Cutting Ready for Welding
Select material, thickness, and angle, and SmoothCut produces a precise, weld-ready bevel, even on inclined or irregular workpieces, no manual grinding needed.
Built-In Shapes for Repetitive Work
Cut circles and rectangles by entering dimensions directly, or use Free Teach to hand-guide a custom path — built and checked in real-time 3D before you cut.
Discover
Why the quality holds up, cut after cut?
Cut Chart Integration
SmoothCut pulls cut height, kerf compensation, pierce settings, and speed straight from Hypertherm‘s certified cut charts across the Powermax SYNC range, and reads SmartSYNC cartridges automatically.
Touch Sense
Before cutting, SmoothCut physically senses the real workpiece surface and sets cut height from that measured point, not an assumed one, even on warped plate.
Arc Voltage Control
SmoothCut continuously monitors arc voltage to hold correct standoff height, compensating for uneven plates without an operator adjusting by hand.
CASE STORY – HELSINKI SHIPYARD
Proven on Demanding Work
Helsinki Shipyard is a 160-year-old shipbuilder working with high-strength, ice-class steel. The yard runs SmoothCut for plasma cutting and SmoothTool for welding on the same UR12e station, switching torches without moving the part between machines. First production parts were cut within about an hour and a half of delivery.
“I give 10/10 to SmoothCut. Really good support, and in terms of the program, our requirements have been taken into account, and it has been felt that development is being done for us so that we can streamline our process here.“
Juha-Pekka Keltanen, Welding Engineer, Helsinki Shipyard
CASE STORY – HELSINKI SHIPYARD
Proven on Demanding Work
Helsinki Shipyard is a 160-year-old shipbuilder working with high-strength, ice-class steel. The yard runs SmoothCut for plasma cutting and SmoothTool for welding on the same UR12e station, switching torches without moving the part between machines. First production parts were cut within about an hour and a half of delivery.
“I give 10/10 to SmoothCut. Really good support, and in terms of the program, our requirements have been taken into account, and it has been felt that development is being done for us so that we can streamline our process here.“
Juha-Pekka Keltanen, Welding Engineer, Helsinki Shipyard
Cut Only, or Cut and Weld On the Same Cobot
Standalone
SmoothCut works as a standalone plasma cutting solution if cutting is all you need.
Add to SmoothTool
If you already run SmoothTool for welding, SmoothCut adds cutting to the same cobot through software and cables – same flange, same pendant, one station for both processes, the way Helsinki Shipyard runs it today.
Bring the Cobot to the Work, or the Work to the Cobot
A cobot isn’t bolted to one spot. You can move it to a workpiece that’s awkward to reposition, or set up simple fixturing around it for repetitive jobs like cutting slots or access holes across a batch of parts. Either way, you get the same cut quality every time, whether it’s a one-off part or the two-hundredth part in a run. Unlike a manual operator, a cobot can also keep cutting shift after shift without the quality dropping off.
How It Works
Choose your programming method: 2D (built-in shapes or Free Teach in a plane) or 3D Free Teach.
Select the cutting parameters including material, thickness, bevel angle, cartridge, and cutting plane.
SmoothCut automatically applies Hypertherm’s recommended cut parameters, generates the toolpath, and you’re ready to cut.