Slots, notches, holes, taps, and connection features cut directly into tube walls during the same CNC cycle that cuts the part to length. No drill press. No punch tooling. No secondary stations. One operation produces a finished component with every feature in the exact position your drawing specifies.
On a conventional fabrication floor, adding slots, holes, or notches to a tube means moving the part through a chain of secondary machines. The tube gets cut on a saw, walked to a drill press for holes, moved to a punch or mill for slots, then over to a tapping station for threads. Each transfer introduces opportunity for positional error, and each setup adds labor time. By the time the part reaches inspection, the accumulated drift from four or five machine setups often puts features out of tolerance.
Our tube laser eliminates that chain entirely. Slots, notches, mounting holes, baluster patterns, lightening holes, tab-and-slot connections, and tapped threads are all programmed into a single CNC file and cut during the same machine cycle. The tube loads raw and comes off finished. Feature positions are laser-accurate to ±0.003" because there's no manual layout, no fixturing variation, and no tolerance stacking from multiple setups.
