Waterjet Cutting Services
Metal parts cut from your file through a specialist waterjet subcontractor sourced for your project, reviewed and checked by us, and supplied as cut or fabricated in our North Vancouver shop.
TrussMetal is a metal fabrication shop in North Vancouver that works across Metro Vancouver. This page is for contractors, designers, millwork shops, makers and equipment owners who need waterjet-cut metal parts, on their own or as part of something we build.
We don’t own a waterjet machine. Waterjet cutting is arranged through a specialist subcontractor sourced for each project. Supplier suitability, material, thickness, tolerances, edge finish, price and delivery date are confirmed before the final order. Our part of the job is separate from the cutting: we review your file, find a supplier that suits the job, confirm the details with you, place the order, check the parts when they arrive, and then supply them or carry on with the fabrication.
What You Can Order
Cut parts only
Flat parts cut from your file and supplied as cut, for your own shop or installer.
Cut and fabricated
Cut parts welded and assembled in our shop into brackets, bases, frames and fixtures, then finished.
Plate parts
Flanges, base plates, gussets, spacers and profiles in plate, where a cut without heat at the edge is wanted.
Cut and formed
Thinner parts cut flat and then bent by a bending subcontractor, where the material and design suit it.
Waterjet cutting uses a high-pressure stream of water with an abrasive rather than heat, so the cut edge isn’t heat-affected. That suits thicker plate, parts that are welded or finished afterwards, and work where a heat-tinted edge isn’t wanted. Whether it is the right route for your part, or laser or plasma would serve better, is part of the review.
Materials and Files
How an Order Runs
- You send the file or drawing. With material, thickness, quantity, tolerances that matter and what happens to the parts next.
- We review it for cutting. Outlines, scale and features that won’t cut cleanly. This is a manufacturing check, not an engineering review or approval of your design.
- We source a suitable supplier. A specialist subcontractor is chosen for the project, and its suitability for your material, thickness, tolerances and edge finish is confirmed.
- You approve the price and date. Nothing is committed until supplier, specification, price and delivery date are confirmed and you approve them.
- We order the cut and check the parts. Parts are checked on arrival against the approved file and the dimensions you marked.
- Collection, delivery or fabrication. Collect from our North Vancouver shop, have them delivered where agreed in the quote, or have us carry on with welding, assembly and finishing.
Who Does What
Responsibilities that affect the quote
TrussMetal: reviewing the file for cutting, sourcing a suitable supplier, confirming the specification, price and date with you, ordering, checking the parts on arrival, and any fabrication you order.
Specialist subcontractor: the waterjet cutting. The supplier is chosen for each project and isn’t named publicly.
You, or your engineer or designer: the design, the dimensions and approval of the cut file. Structural parts are made to the drawings of the project’s engineer or designer.
Related Work
Thin sheet parts are often better suited to laser cutting. Forming after cutting is covered on metal bending, and welded work on welding services. Every service we offer is listed on metal fabrication services.
Questions
Do you have your own waterjet?
No. Waterjet cutting is arranged through a specialist subcontractor sourced for each project. Supplier suitability, material, thickness, tolerances, edge finish, price and delivery date are confirmed before the final order.
Can you cut any material?
This published service covers metal plate and sheet: mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum, with other metals on enquiry. Non-metals are outside this published offer.
What thickness and tolerance can you hold?
That depends on the material and the supplier, and is confirmed before the final order rather than published here.
Can I order cut parts without fabrication?
Yes. We supply them as cut, or with any agreed edge finishing.
When is the price fixed?
Once a suitable supplier has confirmed the material, thickness, tolerances, finish and date, and you approve the quote.
Request a Quote
Send the file and what the parts are for.
What to include in your message
- The DXF, DWG or PDF drawing, or a sketch or photo of the part
- Material and thickness
- Quantity of each part and the tolerances that matter
- Edge finish, and whether we weld, assemble or finish the parts
- Collection or delivery, and when you need them
The form starts blank: in “What do you need?”, select Other Custom Metalwork.
Prefer to talk it through? Call (778) 805-5333, Monday to Friday, 8:30 to 5:00.