Cut Recipes

Select a Manufacturer → Model → Torch Type on the machine's Cutter tab and the factory charts load the first time you pick it. Cebora support covers Plasma iQC 70/T with CP71C DAR and iQC 110/T / 130/T with CP180C DAR mechanized torches. Hypertherm covers the distinct Powermax45 XP and Powermax45 SYNC, Powermax65/85/105, and Powermax125 families, including the published FineCut choices. Thermacut covers EX-TRAFIRE 45HD through 125HD plus the 40SD, 45SD, 55SD, 75SD, and 100SD series; SD models expose Shielded and Unshielded separately, and the 55/75/100SD include SmoothCut.

Coverage runs from thin sheet to inch-plus plate depending on the source, across mild steel, stainless, and aluminum. Entries retain factory consumable identifiers so you can verify the torch setup before using the row. Cebora iQC charts never expose an amperage unsupported by the selected power source.

Older machine configurations that selected Powermax45 XP with a SYNC torch automatically resolve to Powermax45 SYNC. Saved jobs and sheet defaults keep their matching process selection, including older single-sheet jobs. Ordinary XP setups remain XP. You do not need to re-pick the torch or process because of the split, and your custom recipes and tuned chart values are preserved.

Cutting entries store two cut speeds — Best quality and Production — with matching arc voltages; the sheet's Quality dropdown picks which pair is used. Alongside those: kerf width, pierce delay, pierce height, torch-to-work distance, and an edge start flag for thicknesses the machine can't pierce (the chart carries no pierce delay and expects you to start from an edge). All values are editable, you can add your own entries (custom material, consumable set, and thickness labels), and charts can be password-locked so shop-floor edits need sign-off. Each chart can also carry its own contour rules.

Factory marking recipes are separate from thickness-based cut rows. Supported Cebora recipes link the selected cut process and material to that source's marking settings. Supported Powermax45 XP/SYNC marking profiles are explicit process choices because they require their documented marking consumables. They retain current, gas/pressure or flow, marking speed, initial and marking heights, delay, voltage, consumable identifiers, and source metadata. See Engraving & Plasma Marking. Marking rows show their profile and gas in the chart tree and editor; they are not labeled as plate thicknesses.

Once a machine has loaded its factory charts, those charts belong to that machine — they are yours to tune, and JetCad3 never rewrites them behind you. The panel under the chart list tells you where each one stands: green when the chart you have selected still matches the manufacturer's published values, amber when it doesn't, and charts you added yourself are marked as your own. Charts you have edited also carry a dot in the list, so you can see which thicknesses you've tuned without opening each one.

Revert this chart puts a single thickness back to the book and leaves every other chart alone — restoring one gauge never costs you the others you've dialled in, and any contour rules attached to the chart stay put. Update all charts refreshes the whole set at once, which is what to use when a JetCad3 release corrects the built-in data for your cutter; your own custom charts are always kept. Password-locked charts show none of this.

When a chart does differ, the details pane shows the comparison itself: your value beside the factory value for every changed parameter, highlighted with the difference called out — +27% on a cut speed, the exact distance on a standoff — while everything that still matches reads below it just as it always has. Each changed row has its own restore, so you can take a corrected cut speed while keeping the arc voltage you've dialled in. Charts remember which published values they came from, so the comparison tells you whether you changed the chart or a JetCad3 release corrected the factory data underneath it, and voltages written by THC Auto-Tune are labelled so a machine calibration never reads as a mistake. Copy comparison puts the table on the clipboard as plain text, and hovering an edited chart's dot in the list names exactly which fields differ.

Lead-in/lead-out and cut direction live one button over, under Parameters…: arc, line, or no lead-in with radius, angle, and length; line, arc, overcut, or no lead-out; and Climb or Conventional cut direction, which flips the side the kerf offset takes. Defaults persist and feed straight into toolpath generation.