We don’t provide Ra or surface roughness specifications at this time. To provide the best value, material suppliers can change and mill finishes may have varying surface roughness. If one of our finishing services is not added for sheet metal parts, your parts will ship with the mill finish.
We’re unable to provide a specific grain direction for your sheet metal parts since they are automatically cut in the most efficient way possible. If a specific grain direction is important for your project we recommend finishing parts when they get to you.
We do offer plating services for sheet metal parts! Take a look at our Plating Guidelines to learn about the part and material requirements for our plating services. Once your design is ready, upload your file to our website, select an eligible material, and add electroplating to your parts before checkout!
Parts with our linear deburring service will have sharp edges. The surface will be smooth and “cleaned up” from laser cutting, but there will be no edge softening.
At SendCutSend we stock over 15 different sheet metal types in a wide range of natural unfinished hues. Additionally, we offer anodizing, plating, and powder coating services that can provide red, yellow, gold, green, blue, white, and black surface finishes.
At this time we anodize 5052, 6061, and 7075 aluminum. Many non-ferrous metal materials can be anodized, but aluminum is the best candidate and creates the most successful finish.
Our wrinkle black powder coating is fingerprint resistant. All other colors will show fingerprints. These are easily removed by using a soft cloth with mild soap and water.
Bending, countersinking, and tapping services are performed before finishing services. Hardware is installed after anodizing and plating, but before powder coating. Parts with both hardware and powder coating services will have the hardware capped/plugged before being powder coated.
If you choose to add a finishing service (anodizing, plating, or powder coating) to parts, we will apply the finish to the entire part. We’re unable to provide masking or finish specific areas or portions of parts, and not other areas.
Our nickel plating is quite thin (adding approximately ~0.0002″ per side), so you will need to be careful to avoid wearing through the finish. A small amount of light polishing may be doable but any more aggressive treatment like sanding could penetrate through to the underlying material.
If you plan to paint or weld your metal parts after you receive them, you can use acetone to clean them up beforehand and remove all oils.
Our finishing services can add ~0.0004”-0.01″ to the overall thickness of your parts depending on the finish type (anodizing, plating, or powder coating). See the FAQ or service guidelines for details.
Linear deburring is available for parts as small as 1″ x 3″ and as large as 24″ x 46″ depending on the design, material, and geometry.
If deburring is not an option before checkout, it’s typically because the material and/or stock thickness is not eligible or the overall flat part size is too small or too large. Please see our deburring page to confirm requirements for the service.
We offer linear deburring for eligible laser cut parts. If your part qualifies for linear deburring, it will be automatically selected at checkout. You can deselect it if you prefer to not have your part deburred.
Our linear deburring service will clean up imperfections on your laser cut parts. While it won’t give your parts a perfect cosmetic finish, it will prepare them for finishing processes and assembly.
Everything you need to know to design for laser-cutting, CNC routing, bending, and tapping.
Everything from software-specific tutorials to material selection tips.
We have sheet metals, plastics, composites, and wood/boards for every project.
Min and Max part sizes for all our materials
