# Cutting Calculator

**URL:** <https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-calculator/638>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [January 16, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-calculator/638 "2023-01-16T18:23:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yogi29940](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ba8739/32.png) [@yogi29940](https://community.wazer.com/u/yogi29940)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-calculator/638/1 "2023-01-16T18:23:52Z")

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I went to the Cutting Calculator and selected material Aluminum thickness is 0.090 cut length 10 inches with 1 pierce. It gave me cut rate of 2.2 ipm pierce time 11 seconds job time of 4m 37s. Is the cut rate for course cut or what. I do a lot of prototyping in my shop.

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**Author:** ![Aaron.MECHA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Aaron.MECHA](https://community.wazer.com/u/Aaron.MECHA)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.wazer.com/t/cutting-calculator/638/2 "2023-07-14T12:17:27Z")

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You got no reply to this, but I wanted to ask if you ever followed up on this. I would recommend using that for the medium setting and set the fine and rough accordingly. Check your cut and see if maybe the fine would yield better results. That’s what I did with my first cut and it worked out well.