Arclight Dynamics Arc Pro Ultra V3 5x5

A 65 x 60 in cutting envelope makes the Arclight Dynamics Arc Pro Ultra V3 5x5 the square table for 5 ft wide stock. It is the Arc Pro platform running Arclight's own Arc CNC software. Half of a 5 x 10 sheet goes on without trimming the width, and the square shape lets a part be turned either way in the nest.

Arclight builds the Arc Pro Ultra V3 on a steel frame with leveling rollers as standard equipment and encloses the wiring. A dual-drive gantry on machined aluminum risers is pushed by NEMA 34 motors through planetary gear boxes, and it runs on Hiwin 20 mm linear guide rails. The torch is carried by a ball screw Z axis. The table is rated for 1.5 in mild steel and a positioning accuracy of 0.001 in.

Compared with the narrower tables the cost is modest: a base of 73 x 73 in, 900 lb, and 78.4 gallons in the water pan. Overall dimensions are listed as 93 x 114 in and 74 in tall. Z in the envelope is 9 in. Long parts are the limit, since nothing over about 5 ft is cut in one setup, so shops making rails or stringers should look at the longer sizes.

The control is Arc CNC, software Arclight wrote for the Ultra tables. It runs on industrial Linux and talks to the table over Ethernet. The functions that matter in daily use are the recovery ones: fast forward and rewind along the cut path, start point recovery after a power loss, and an auto rip cut for trimming off a remnant. Plate skew can be set in software instead of nudging the sheet square. Torch height control with dynamic voltage sampling is part of the system. The plasma cutter is chosen separately when the table is configured.