CNC plasma pipe cutting, designed on the machine.
Techni-Cope Systems cuts copes, mitres, holes, headers, slots and your own DXF shapes into round pipe, and in plate mode it cuts flat plate from drawings made on the screen. The touch screen is the whole workflow: design the part, send it, home the machine, press CYCLE START.
TRY THE SIMULATOR ▶ GET AN ESTIMATEThe simulator is the machine's own screen, running in your browser. Nothing to install. Laptop or desktop only; it is not offered on phones.
HOW IT WORKS
- Design on the screenCOPE CREATE builds the part: an upright coped both ends, or an assembly of any ends and cut-outs along one pipe. A 3D preview shows the finished piece. In plate mode, PLATE CREATE is a drafting window: draw the parts, import DXF or SVG, nest them onto sheets.
- Price it before you cutEach material carries your pipe or plate price, handling charge, consumable cost per pierce and sell factor. Every job shows its cost and sell price next to SEND TO MACHINE, and the breakdown exports to a USB stick for the quote.
- Send to the machineThe job is nested onto sticks and loaded straight into the controller. No CAM, no USB stick, no PC.
- Home, chuck the pipe, cutThe torch probes the pipe, pierces and cuts at the material's settings while the chuck turns the pipe under it. Cut recovery, run-from-line and torch height control are built in.
WHAT IT CUTS
COPES
Single and multi-way saddles onto any pipe size, square or at an angle, both ends of the same stick.
MITRES & STRAIGHT CUTS
Ends at any angle, cut in order from the free end so nothing separates before it is finished.
HOLES & HEADERS
Rows of holes, through or one side, and the exact opening for a branch pipe welded to the side.
SLOTS, SQUARES & DXF
Flat shapes laid onto the pipe surface, or a logo and any odd shape from a DXF drawing.
NESTING
Several parts share one stick with common cuts, or one part per pipe; jobs run stick by stick.
FLAT PLATE
Plate mode puts a linear table on the Y axis: 6" wide on the compact system, 24" on the full-length system, by the length of the machine. PLATE CREATE draws lines, arcs, circles, slots and polygons with trim, fillet, offset, mirror and pattern tools, imports DXF and SVG, and nests parts onto sheets cut one after another.
EXTENDABLE
The primary system cuts pipe up to 1400 mm; each docked extension module adds 1500 mm.
SEE IT CUT
BUILD YOUR ESTIMATE ▶ pick a system and options, see the price, download the PDF - no account needed.
PRODUCT · PRICING & AVAILABILITY
55" PRIMARY SYSTEM
The complete machine: pipe-cutting table with rotary chuck, 1400 mm (55") of cutting length, the Techni-Cope touch screen and controller.
from $9,600
Extend it any time with docked extension modules. First builds are under way: enquire now to hold a slot.
EXTENSION MODULE
Docks to the primary system and adds 1500 mm of cutting length. Stack as many as your shop needs; the screen sets the machine length.
$4,999 each
FULL-LENGTH 35' SYSTEM
Built to full pipe length from the start: cuts a complete 35 ft stick without repositioning.
from $45,000
PLATE MODE
PLATE CREATE on the screen draws, imports and nests flat parts; the same PIPE / PLATE switch runs both.
$2,500
A linear table on the Y axis: cuts plate 6" wide by the full length of the system.
$5,000 PROMO
A 4' × 4' plate table beside the pipe machine.
PLATE TABLES
Stand-alone flat plate cutting tables running the same Techni-Cope screen: PLATE CREATE drafting, DXF / SVG import and nesting on the machine.
4' × 8' TABLE
Cuts a full 4 × 8 ft sheet.
$21,500
5' × 10' TABLE
Cuts a full 5 × 10 ft sheet.
$24,000
6' × 12' TABLE
Cuts a full 6 × 12 ft sheet.
$28,000
ROTARY FOR A TABLE
Add the rotary pipe chuck to any plasma table for $4,500: the same PIPE / PLATE switch on the screen, COPE CREATE for pipe and PLATE CREATE for plate on one machine.
On a fiber laser table the rotary is a side-cradle system for $34,000: round and square tube up to 8" square, run by CypCut with the laser.
RETRO-FIT OR BUILD YOUR OWN MACHINE
Keep your gantry and give it our drive: closed-loop hybrid motors with gearboxes and gears, a plug-and-play control box with labelled, pre-connected wiring and power supply, our Z axis with crash detection and a universal mounting kit to adapt it to your gantry, sensor mount kits with inductive proximity sensors, the touch-screen controller with the software built in, and the drill bits, taps and centre punches to mount it (bolts and nuts if you drill through without tapping), with tech support through the install. Our Z axis is sealed from dust and designed to last. Fits systems as large as 7' × 14'. $10,000 flat plus GST, sold online and shipped: the electronics anywhere in Canada for a flat $50. Installation by our technician is available across Canada for $1,500 plus travel, quoted for your location (typically $0.52 per km from Airdrie, AB; beyond 450 km a two-night hotel stay is added at $600, allowing a full install day and two travel days).
Need rails and a rack too? 4' × 4' set $1,800 · 4' × 8' $3,000 · 5' × 10' $4,000 · 6' × 12' $5,000, drop-shipped to you from the supplier for $200, $300, $400 or $500. A plasma source supplied with the retrofit ships for $500. The rails suit a 12" gantry with 3" to spare beyond the rated sheet: a 4' × 4' set is 63" of rail per axis. It is all plug and play and most handymen can install it; an electrician or a technician may be needed to help with the power side.
Build your own pipe system on the same $10,000 electronics package, with the rotary axis and COPE CREATE built in: add a chuck (4" holds up to 5" pipe gripped internally, $1,600; 6" holds 7", $1,900; 8" holds 10", $3,000) or take the rotary drive only and mount your own; power roller modules at $1,500 each that carry and turn the pipe, two being the recommended minimum (a chuck easily turns the pipe on its own; power rollers suit chuckless systems that want a large range of pipe sizes and easier loading, and pipe under 2" is not recommended on them); and 59" rail pairs with matching gear rack at $1,200 a pair. The package wires a 12' machine; each further 5' of travel adds $200 of wiring. A generic gantry kit, pre-assembled with its pneumatics, is $2,000 for either build: motor mounts that fit the rail guide blocks, pneumatic tensioners and alignment jigs, with three linear plates for a plate table (two single-rail X plates and a dual-rail Y plate) or one dual-rail plate for a pipe machine. The kit is electronically plug and play; mounting the rails and gear rack takes patience, and it is your responsibility to take the time to align them for the best performance. A full build needs good fabrication skills and on-site installation is not available for it; the best option is a complete Techni-Cope system, built, wired and commissioned in our shop.
PLASMA SOURCE
Add a plasma source to any system, supplied and integrated, or bring your own: the controller works with your existing unit.
JOB COSTING ON THE MACHINE
Every Techni-Cope prices the job as you design it. Your pipe or plate rate, the consumables per pierce, your handling charge and your sell factor sit on each material, so the cost and the sell price show on screen before you press SEND TO MACHINE, and the whole breakdown exports to a USB stick. Quoting your own customers happens inside your regular workflow, not after it.
FIBER LASER INSTEAD OF PLASMA
On plate tables and the full-length system. Every laser package is turnkey: every component, the Super-Cooler chiller, 30,000 hours of consumables, CypCut software and the Windows control PC, supplied fully configured. Raycus sources at the prices below; MAX sources $2,500 more. A fiber laser belongs to one machine: the head, the chiller and the beam path are built into it, so unlike a plasma source it cannot be moved between a pipe system and a plate table. Two machines means a source for each, in any mix you like. Laser machines are controlled by CypCut on a Windows PC (included), not the Techni-Cope screen, which drives the plasma machines. Things not included with a laser: air compressor, air dryer, and any HVAC venting or extraction blowers; the laser needs clean, dry compressed air and extraction at the machine, which the shop provides.
$40,000
Up to 10 mm carbon steel. Single phase.
$44,000
Up to 12 mm carbon steel, clean cuts. The most a single-phase supply runs.
$56,000
Up to 5/8" carbon steel. Three phase; transformer for 208 V to 400 V included.
$68,000
Up to 3/4" carbon steel. Three phase; transformer included.
$92,000
Up to 1" carbon steel. Three phase; transformer included.
Delivery and setup. Pick up at our shop at no charge, with a full demo on your machine. The shop is north of Spirit River, Alberta; it is a working manufacturing shop, not open to the public, so visits and pickups are by confirmed appointment only. Delivered within 300 km of Spirit River $1,350, anywhere in Alberta $2,300: one flat charge covers delivery, installation help and a day of training. Outside Alberta, contact us for pricing.
$2,100
$3,000
$4,000
$6,500
$8,500
$10,500
Availability: build slots are allocated in order of enquiry. Prices exclude shipping and taxes.
BUILT IN OUR SHOP
Every Techni-Cope system is designed and built by us. The same shop builds plasma tables, routers, lasers and saws; a few of them below. Tap a picture to see it larger.
