The coolest thing about this machine for us is the drive mechanism ... and because the design allows the water-jet cutting head to remain entirely fixed, only a small hole underneath is necessary ...

The idea is a riff on fixtures that allow a waterjet cutter (or a plasma cutter ... Of course it makes zero sense to use a machine tool costing multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars to ...

With the abrasive water jet, erosive quartz sand particles are added by a special mixing nozzle that then cuts the material like a diamond wire saw. The development of the cutting programmes as well ...