Xometry Launches AI-Driven Auto-Quoting for Tube Fabrication Services
Get instant pricing, lead times, and design for manufacturability feedback on laser tube cutting and tube bending.
AI-Driven Instant Pricing
Xometry has developed AI-driven auto quoting for laser tube cutting and tube bending. We enhanced our Xometry Instant Quoting Engine® with advanced geometric detection capabilities, allowing it to analyze 3D models and provide real-time pricing and lead times for these new processes. This is in addition to our instant pricing for CNC machining, sheet metal, sheet cutting, 3D printing, and more.
Tube fabrication is a go-to method when making large or structural components, manifolds, and frames. It's used across industries like aerospace, defense, consumer goods, and industrial equipment. Advanced tube manufacturing includes mandrel tube bending, which enables multiple, complex bends done precisely and repeatably. Laser tube cutting quickly produces copes, holes, notches, and any needed patterns through round or rectangular tubes.
We are the first digital marketplace to offer instant pricing and lead times for tube bending and laser tube cutting services. Utilizing the diversity of our manufacturing marketplace, we have launched our capabilities with an extensive selection of tube stock and geometries, outlined below.
Materials and Design
Materials
Xometry's standard tube sizes include round, square, and rectangular stock.
- Stainless Steel: 304 and 316 Welded and Seamless
- Aluminum 6061 Extruded and Drawn
- Alloy Steel 4130 Seamless
- Steel A513 DOM, HREW, and CREW
Tube Bending
Tube bending services through Xometry are for round tubes, and the information below outlines a comprehensive list of available alloys and sizes. Files uploaded near the standard size listed below will assume that standard size for fabrication. These quick design for manufacturing (DFM) tips will ensure your project will quickly quote and be made with ease:
- Minimum bendable tube diameter: .250"
- Maximum bendable tube diameter: 2.000"
- Minimum bendable tube wall thickness: .035"
- Maximum bendable tube wall thickness: .188"
- A single piece can support multiple tube bends. However, the center line radius (CLR) should be consistent across all bends.
- We recommend a bend radius to tube diameter ratio of 2:1 to 5:1.
- For tubes under one inch, bend distances should be at least 2X the outer diameter. Increase that distance for larger tube diameters; for one to two inches, we suggest at least 3X the distance and 4X between bends for tubes over two inches.
- Learn more through our top tube bending design tips article.
Tube Cutting
Xometry offers laser tube cutting services for an even larger menu of round, square, and rectangular tube sizes. The information below shows the sizes available for tube cutting by profile and alloy. Xometry can cut tubes in a variety of sizes:
- Minimum round outer diameter: .500"
- Maximum round outer diameter: 6.000"
- Minimum square or rectangle dimension: .500"
- Maximum square or rectangle dimension: 6.000"
- Minimum wall thickness: .035"
- Maximum wall thickness: .500"
- Assume normal-to-surface cutting for cut features and end conditions.
- Learn more through our top design tips for laser tube cutting article.