What Determines Whether Your Part Fits the Laser
Bed size is the first check and rarely the deciding one. Material, thickness, feature detail and what happens to the part afterwards decide which machine runs it.
A part fits the laser or it does not, and the answer is rarely just the bed size. Four checks decide it, and only the first one is a number on a specification page.
The bed sets the envelope
The working area on the Bodor C Series is 5 ft by 10 ft (1.52 m by 3.05 m). A part that fits inside that envelope in its flat orientation is a candidate. A part that does not is cut in pieces and joined, or it moves to another process, and the review says which.
Orientation matters. A part 9 ft long by 3 ft wide fits one way and not the other, and nesting several parts on a sheet is part of the same question, not a separate one.
The material decides the thickness
The recorded range on this machine runs from 1/64 in to 1 in (0.39 mm to 25.4 mm), and that is the outside of the range rather than a promise for every metal. Carbon steel is where the thickest work happens. Stainless steel and aluminum cut cleanly at reduced thickness. Copper and brass are limited to thin sheet because reflective metals limit usable thickness. Galvanized steel cuts with the coating accounted for in the setup.
So the material callout on the drawing is what makes the thickness check meaningful. A request that says plate at a thickness without a material cannot be confirmed.
Detail is where the laser earns its place
The laser is the machine for tighter detail, smaller holes and cleaner edges than plasma produces, and for batches where every piece has to match. If a part carries holes smaller than a plasma kerf allows, fine internal radii, or narrow slots, that requirement pulls it towards the laser rather than the plate table. Laser or plasma for your part covers the choice between them.
What comes after cutting
Three things on the part decide whether it should run here at all:
- Marking. The laser etches part numbers, orientation marks and bend lines in the cutting program, so a part that needs identification carries it out of the machine.
- Repeatability. Repeat work cuts from the stored drawing program, which reproduces the geometry of the original run.
- Weight and handling. KorFab has not published a maximum part weight for the bed, so an unusually heavy or awkward part is checked before it is scheduled rather than promised at quote.
What to send so the check can happen
Flat geometry in DXF or DWG, the drawing with material and thickness, the quantity and the next operation. With those four, the fit question is answered in review. Without the material callout, it cannot start.