Laser metal cutting, bending and custom metalworking
Laser metal cutting helps when you need brackets, flanges, an equipment enclosure or a batch of identical parts made to a drawing. Describe the metal, sizes and quantity in an order, and metalworkers will send responses. Or choose a shop yourself by photos of parts and client reviews.
Metalworkers
How much laser metal cutting costs
What affects the price
Cut length and holes
Cutting is often charged per meter of contour plus each pierce of the sheet, so a plate with a dozen holes costs more than a plain blank of the same size.
Metal and sheet thickness
Stainless steel, aluminum and brass are cut in a different mode than mild steel, and the thicker the sheet, the slower the cut and the higher the price per meter of cut.
Number of bends
Bending is usually charged per bend. A long part or thick sheet needs a more powerful press brake, and a box with complex bends takes longer to set up.
Drawing or sketch
With a ready DXF drawing, cutting can start right away, while a drawing or flat pattern made from a sketch or sample is separate work that can raise the cost.
The shop's metal and nesting
If the shop buys the metal, it often charges for the parts plus the share of the sheet left as offcuts; nesting several parts tightly on one sheet reduces that share.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a metalworker
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose who cuts and bends your metal
- 1
Laser or plasma
A laser cuts thin and medium sheet precisely and cleanly; plasma handles thick metal faster, but leaves a rougher edge. Ask what machine will cut your part.
- 2
Sizes the machine takes
Ask about the largest sheet the laser bed holds and the longest part the press brake can bend: this decides whether your part is made in one piece, without a joint.
- 3
Flat pattern for bending
Ask who makes the flat pattern: it has to allow for the sheet thickness and bend radius, or after bending the part will not match the drawing.
- 4
Similar parts in the portfolio
In the portfolio, look for parts like yours: a bent box, a perforated panel, flanges with holes. Close-up shots show the cut edge and how even the bends are.
- 5
Precision and critical dimensions
Ask what tolerances the machines hold when cutting and bending, and point out which dimensions are critical for you — for example, the spacing between mounting holes.
What to put in the order
What you need: cutting, bending, rolling or all of it — and what the part is for
The metal and sheet thickness: mild or stainless steel, aluminum, galvanized sheet
Part dimensions and the number of pieces
Whether there is a drawing in DXF or another format, or only a sketch with dimensions
Whose metal: yours, or the shop should buy it
Whether the edges need deburring, and how you will collect the finished parts
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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