CNC Plasma Cutting Machine for Pipe, Tube, Angle & Channel

The Dragon A400 is much more than a CNC Pipe Cutter. It’s a complete solution for designing, drawing, CNC plasma cutting and marking of round, square, rectangular, angle and channel section, with integrated CAD/CAM software.

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Made by Bend-Tech USA

Based in Wisconsin, Bend-Tech are well-established providers of software and equipment for pipe fabrication. This expertise and experience ensures that the Dragon machines are not only extremely functional, but also easy to operate.

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Quick & Easy to Load

Dragon A400 is designed to simplify and streamline your work – including both electronic and physical processes. With a self-centering adjustable front gate, loading new material is an easy task.

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Precise & Fast

Whether your job involves cutting out thousands of identical components or one-off rapid prototype parts, Dragon A400 will take your workshop’s production to the next level.

Watch the Bend-Tech Dragon A400 in action

Designed and built in USA, the A400 has been tested and proven in serious production and high-volume applications, delivering time-savings and material-savings every step of the way. It’s capability for plasma cutting round pipe as well as square, rectangular, angle and channel section, coupled with engraving and marking ability (all standard features) delivers an amazingly versatile solution that will add huge value to any serious fabrication shop! The Dragon series machines work in perfect harmony with our Hypertherm plasma cutters, and will run off your laptop or desktop computer. Available in 3.6m, 7.2m or 9.1m.

Features

Read about the features of the Bend-Tech Dragon A400

Mark, label or etch with accuracy. Assemble with ease

More than just a plasma cutter. Thanks to its marking capability, the Dragon A400 will bring you massive time and cost gains when it comes to assembling your parts.

Precisely mark and label tubes with: locations, bend order, rotations, angles, saddle marks (where tubes will intersect for quick and accurate assembling) & much more. Marks with permanent marker or engraver.

Laser guided positioning: Fast indexing and reduced waste

Eliminate scrap, allow full utilisation of tube lengths, flip the pipe (end-for-end) or work with pipe longer than the machine? No problem!

Dragon will create a mark on the first position of the pipe. Release the pipe from the chuck and re-align with a Laser Pointer Light mounted to the head. Continue cutting and marking the next position of tubing.

Cutting edge CAD drawing capability

Bend-Tech Dragon CAD drawing software is included in the software suite that comes with the machine – an awesome program for anyone working with metal tube! Whether you are drawing roll cages, exhaust pipes, handrails or whatever it is you make from tube, Dragon CAD software will turn your design dreams into metal reality quickly and easily.

Built heavy duty, for high volume production work

The Dragon A400 is a mighty beast! Able to run continuously for long periods, it will also handle a stock weight of up to 180kg. An automated centre support gate keeps the material straight during manufacturing.

Not your average engraver

The Dragon’s engraver unit is second to none.

This is a standard feature on every Dragon machine. An inline oiler keeps the engraver functioning efficiently. Used for part identification marking and for designs that are to be etched onto the material.

Tube size capacity

The roller gate design gives the versatility of handling both round pipe and square, rectangular, angle and channel sections.

Round: 25 – 152mm diameter.
Square / Rectangle / Angle Channel: 25 – 100mm x 25 – 100mm.
Chuck pass through (for processing tube lengths longer than the machine): Round Pipe max 50mm, Square Tube max 35 x 35mm.
Machine Travel Length: Max 7,400mm of travel in one position / unlimited when re-positioned.

From drawing to finished product faster than ever before

With just a few clicks, Dragon software is able to take your 3D CAD drawings and then automatically unfold them into flat 2D layouts, ready for the Dragon machine to manufacture.

Work with CAD drawings designed in virtually any common format (Bend-Tech, Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc) or even hand drawings. Dragon’s exclusive CAD to CNC software will provide fast and intelligent file handling & converting to help you manufacture the exact part you have in mind.

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Knock up a handrail?

Sure, why not! See for yourself how Dragon will seamlessly take you from design (CAD), to set-up (CAM), to cutting (CNC) with finished componentry that’s right ready to fabricate.

View Dragon software in action

A quick demonstration of Dragon Software capability. This video shows how to create simple coped parts in Dragon’s design interface, how to transfer them to a nesting project and then send to the Dragon Machine for cutting.

Marking demonstration

Here’s a quick video demonstrating Dragon’s marking capability. Bend-Tech Dragon’s marking ability significantly increases productivity when it comes to bending, fabrication & assembly.

Dragon software will even automatically measure and draw marks to compensate for the material’s stretching, spring back, rotation, etc during the tube bending process.

Creating slots and tabs – another brilliant time-saving feature

For accurate and easier positioning during fabrication, you can’t go past the Dragon’s Slots and Tabs function. This not only makes assembly a lot easier, but it also improves the strength and precision of your project. Brilliant!

How about creating notch bridges?

With the Dragon A400 you can add Notch Bridges so your tube won’t bow or distort during further manufacturing processes such as bending or welding. Like we said… Dragon adds value every step of the way.