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Draw the part. Set the cut order. Export it for your machine.
A fast, focused drawing program built for waterjet cutting. Draw a part or open a DXF, ORD or OMAX file, set your cutting speeds, add lead-ins and tabs, let Auto Path order the cuts, then export an ORD part file, an OMAX .omx file or Mach3/Mach4 G-code. No heavyweight CAD/CAM package required.
Lead-ins and lead-outs, plus tabs to hold small pieces to the sheet
Auto Path orders the cuts — holes before their outer edge, nearest part first — or set the order yourself
Cutting speeds shown as line colors, with left / right / no cutter compensation
Path Preview plays back the exact cut path, with dashed travel moves
Export ORD part files, OMAX .omx files and Mach3/Mach4 G-code, plus a built-in ORD-to-G-code Text Convert tab
Optional safe travel height (Z raise/lower around rapid moves) in the G-code, with an optional multi-pass mode for milling. The G-code can drive a waterjet nozzle or a milling bit
Print a job sheet with the drawing, job details, cutting length and part size — or just the drawing
Set your own keyboard shortcuts for the tools and commands you use most
Intersection snap finds where lines, arcs and circles cross
Do math in the command line — type 7/3 for an offset and it works it out
Offset open cuts left or right, with an Offset Guide that shows which side the cutter runs
Angle snap — type an angle and draw at it
Remembers your toolbar layout, feeds and settings between sessions
See it
The Draw tab — toolbars on top, Properties panel on the right, dashed lines show machine travel (click to enlarge)Cutting speeds show as line colors, so you can see the whole job at a glance (click to enlarge)Path Preview plays back the exact cut order, leads and tabs included (click to enlarge)The Text Convert tab — ORD in, Mach3/Mach4 G-code out, with feeds, speeds and header/footer settings (click to enlarge)
How it works
1. Draw the part, or open a DXF, ORD or OMAX file
2. Clean it up, set the speeds, add leads and tabs
3. Click Auto Path (or set the order yourself) and check it in Path Preview
4. Export an ORD part file, an OMAX file or G-code and take it to your machine
Using FlowPATH or OMAX software?
60Ticks Waterjet Pro works with the same kinds of files: it opens and saves ORD part files (the FlowMaster format used by Flow waterjets) and OMAX .omx tool paths, and it opens DXF files drawn in OMAX’s layer style. Draw and path 2D parts on any Windows 10 or 11 PC for a one-time $199.99 — no subscription. Export OMAX is new: the files are matched to OMAX’s own sample files, but they have not been run on an OMAX machine yet — if you have one, we’d like your feedback through the form below.
Which one is right for you?
Choose Pro if you want to draw and make Mach3/Mach4 G-code.
Choose Standard if you only need ORD part files — it's the same drawing program without the G-code side.
Choose the Converter if you already have ORD files and only need G-code — no drawing tools.
Installer or ZIP?
Installer (recommended): comes as a ZIP — open it and run the Setup file. Installs to Program Files with a Start Menu entry and an uninstaller. Installing a newer version over an older one keeps your settings. Download the installer.
ZIP: nothing to install — copy the program to any folder or a USB stick and run it from there. Download the ZIP.
Trial and license
Try everything free for 60 days. After that, exporting ORD, OMAX and G-code (Export ORD, Export OMAX, Export NC and Save NC File) needs a license key.
Drawing, opening files, Save DXF and the Path Preview keep working. Your drawings are never locked. Buy once, use it forever — no
subscription. Your key arrives by email; enter it under Help > License. Updates within version 1 (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.37 and so on) are free: download the newest version and register it with the same email and key. Moving to a
new computer? Just register again.
$199.99 — one-time purchase, unlocks the full
version of 60Ticks Waterjet Pro forever.
Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). The program runs on the PC you draw on. To cut, save
your file and carry it to your machine's controller PC on a USB stick — the
controller PC does not need this software or a recent version of Windows.
Current version 1.37, digitally signed by Clinton Smart. See the version history below.
Flow, FlowMaster and FlowPATH are trademarks of Flow International Corporation. OMAX and
Intelli-MAX are trademarks of Hypertherm, Inc. They are used here only to say which files
60Ticks programs read and write. 60Ticks is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by
Flow, OMAX, Hypertherm or any other machine or software manufacturer.
Version history
Need an older version? Download links are next to each one below, and every 60Ticks program’s older versions are on the Older versions page. Your license key works in every 1.x version.
Version 1.37 (current)
Offset an open cut Left or Right. An open cut (a line or chain that doesn’t close up, such as a notch cut in from the corner of the sheet) used to be cut on its center line only. Select it and the Properties panel now offers Open contour offset: Center (the default, so existing drawings don’t change), Left or Right of the way the tool travels. It is one undo step and is saved in the ORD file. Closed contours still follow Left / Right Offset on the Cutter Comp toolbar.
New Offset Guide (Cutter Comp toolbar and View menu, off by default): a dotted magenta line beside every compensated cut on the side the cutter will run, plus an arrow on each open contour showing which way the tool travels it. It is a marker for checking by eye, not the real kerf width.
New Reverse Direction (Cutter Comp toolbar and the Properties panel): cuts an open contour from the other end. The cutter stays on the same side of the cut.
Left Offset now works in G-code: Export NC writes G41 for a Left Offset (Right is G42 as before), each turned off with G40. Before, Left wrote no cutter compensation at all. Climb / Conventional milling still sets the side of closed contours; an open contour keeps its own side.
Angle snap (new Angle button and degrees box on the Snap toolbar): after the first point, the next one locks to the angle you type. Type 10, 15, 30 or 45 and it snaps at every multiple (15, 30, 45, 60 and so on); any other number snaps to just that angle and the direction square to it. A typed distance goes that far along the angle, and a real snap such as an endpoint still wins. No more drawing a flat line and rotating it.
Export just the features you pathed: when only part of a drawing is pathed (say, Path Selected on the two holes a clog missed), ORD, OMAX and NC export, Path Preview and the Offset Guide carry only those features. Leads and cutter sides are still worked out with the whole drawing, so a recut hole gets the same lead and side it had in the plate. Nothing pathed or everything pathed exports the whole drawing as before, and Remove Path puts the whole drawing back. A feature drawn after Auto Path stays out of the export until you path it too.
A pathed round hole now stays pathed after a lead is added to it.
An ORD file that holds only holes (no plate around them) now opens with its holes still cut as holes, so the cutting direction and side are kept.
The number boxes on the toolbars (lead length, tab size, arc lead length and sweep, angle) no longer reformat while you type, so typing .125 gives .125. The value is taken on Enter or when you click away; the arrows and slider still act right away.
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers everything new.
Print a job sheet: File > Print with Data (Ctrl+P) asks for job name or number, material, thickness and quantity (fill them in, or press Enter and write them on by hand), then opens a print preview where you can turn the page, zoom, pick a printer or save a PDF. The sheet shows the file name and date, the drawing, and a footer with the number of lines, arcs and circles, the total cutting length (leads included), the part’s size and the percent of actual size it printed at. Travel moves print as grey dashes. What you type comes back if you print the same file again.
Print without Data: just the drawing, as large as the page allows.
Set your own keyboard shortcuts: View > Keyboard Shortcuts lists the tools and commands with their keys. Click a box and press the new keys (Ctrl or Alt plus a letter, or an F key). Search box, Clear and Default buttons, and Reset All to Defaults; your choices are remembered. A key already in use is refused and you are told which command has it.
Auto Path now has a key: Ctrl+W (change it to anything you like).
The title bar shows the name of the file you opened, saved or exported.
Ctrl+N starts a new drawing, and asks first whether to save unsaved changes.
New Remove Path button on the Path toolbar: forgets the cut order so the red travel lines go back to normal. Ctrl+Z puts it back.
Stretch Arc now works on a straight line: drag the line and it becomes an arc with its ends fixed.
The Properties panel says whether a selected contour is closed or open. Open ones show in red with their two end points, so you can find a break fast.
Intersection snap now works with circles and arcs: it finds where lines, arcs and circles cross, in any pairing, and an arc only snaps where the arc really is. Before, it only found where two straight lines cross.
Do math in the command line: any number you type can be a simple sum, such as 7/3, 2*3.5, (4+1.5)/2 or 2^3. Type 7/3 for an offset distance, or @7/3,0 for a point, and it works it out and shows the answer. With no tool waiting for a number, it works as a calculator. No spaces, so type 1 1/2 as 3/2.
Fixed: arc leads now always roll smoothly onto the cut. Before, an arc lead-in or lead-out on a reopened or re-pathed file could come out curling the wrong way, doubling back against the cut. Opening and re-saving an affected ORD file repairs it.
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers everything new, with new sections on printing and keyboard shortcuts.
Opens OMAX .omx files: File > Open (Ctrl+O) or drag the file onto the window. The part opens as lines and arcs in cut order with the leads marked; speeds come from the OMAX Quality Settings and Auto Path puts the travel moves back.
New Export OMAX (File menu): writes an OMAX .omx tool path with the same cut order, leads and kerf side as Export ORD. Speeds become OMAX qualities (100% = 1, 80% = 2, 60% = 3, 40% = 4, 20% = 5; change this under File > OMAX Quality Settings). New — not yet run on an OMAX machine; feedback from OMAX owners is welcome.
DXF files in OMAX’s layer style open correctly: layers 1–5 are cut speeds, layer 9 is leads, and layer 0 travel lines are ignored.
Leads are recognized when you reopen a file (ORD, DXF or OMAX-style DXF), so Auto Path, kerf side and Export OMAX work on files saved earlier. Before, reopened leads looked like loose lines.
Tabs come back too: a tab in a reopened ORD or DXF file now reads as part of a closed contour.
Offset uses the selection: pick exactly what to offset (one line, some sides of a box, or a whole contour) by clicking, Shift-clicking or dragging a window, or select first and then start Offset. Esc cancels.
Clicking a speed button with items selected changes them and clears the selection, so you see the new color right away.
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers everything new.
Much faster pathing on big drawings: Auto Path and Export ORD on a 1,600-hole sheet went from about 25 seconds to under a tenth of a second (5,000 holes in about 0.2 s). A “please wait” box shows on jobs of 1,500+ items.
New Path menu (between Table and Help): Auto Path, Path Selected, and how Auto Path orders the cuts — Closest to the Origin First (the old way, still the default), Sweep Along Rows or Sweep Along Columns; Start At any corner; Back and Forth (snake); Row / Column Size (automatic unless you set it). Built for grids of holes and perforated sheet, including staggered rows. Works on separate parts and on the holes inside a sheet outline. Your choices are remembered.
New Path Selected button next to Auto Path: paths only the selected features, by the same rules, after what is already pathed — select more and click again to keep adding. Pathed travel lines are drawn red and dotted so you can see what is done.
If only part of the drawing is pathed, Auto Path asks whether to Complete the Path or Start From Scratch.
Array: new “Offset every other row” field — half the X spacing gives a staggered (hex) pattern.
Select By: new “Same Kind as Selected” and “Same Size as Selected” (every circle, arc or line like the one selected; same radius or length).
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers everything new.
New Ellipse tool (command “el”): click the center, the end of the first axis, then a point or a typed half-length for the other axis.
New Spline tool (command “spl”): click the points the curve passes through; Enter or right-click finishes, click the first point or type C to close. Ellipses and splines are drawn as lines and tangent arcs within 0.002″, ready to cut.
New Slot tool (command “sl”): click the two end centers, then a point on an edge or type the width; Enter reuses the last width.
DXF import now reads splines and ellipses (they used to be skipped).
Fillet or Chamfer a whole contour in one go: select the contour, choose Fillet or Chamfer, type a size — every corner is done.
Edit menu: Scale Drawing mm → inch and inch → mm (asks first, one undo).
New Select toolbar: Select (F2), Select All, Select None, Invert Selection (Ctrl+I), and Select By speed — pick All Cut Lines, 100, 80, 60, 40, 20, Custom or Traverse to select just the lines of that speed/color (works like layers: draw changes in another color, then select that color to delete, move or change speed). Speeds with nothing drawn are grayed out. The same items are on the Edit menu.
Fix: Undo (u, Ctrl+Z or the Undo button) while drawing a spline, ellipse, slot, arc, circle, box and so on now takes back your last click instead of undoing the drawing made before the command.
Spline: a snap box shows on the first point when a click there will close the curve.
Live Measure: after the first click, a readout follows the cursor with the distance, dx, dy and angle to where a click would land (the snap point when a snap shows, with the snap named) — no more reading numbers from the text window.
Select exactly two things and the Properties panel tells you how they relate: two lines — parallel or perpendicular (or how far off), the angle, the spacing, where they cross; circles and arcs — center to center, concentric, tangent or overlapping; a line and a circle — tangent, crossing or clear; two pieces that meet — the corner angle.
Single Select switch (Snap & Options toolbar, after Contour): on (the default) a click selects just that item; off, every click adds to the selection (click a selected item again to take it out). Remembered between runs.
Your saved toolbar layout is kept; the new Select toolbar is placed beside the Edit toolbar automatically.
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers everything new.
New Edit menu (Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste in Place, Delete, Select All, Select None) with matching toolbar buttons.
Copy, Cut and Paste (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V) and Paste in Place (Ctrl+Shift+V), using the program’s own clipboard.
New Copy To tool (command “co”): click a base point, then click each spot to place a copy; Enter or right-click ends.
Erase / Delete now repeats: right-click acts like Enter and keeps deleting what’s selected.
Drag and drop: drop a DXF or ORD file onto the window to open it.
Traverse raise (File > Set Traverse Raise…, or “Traverse raise (rapids)” in the Properties panel): exported ORD files lift, move and lower the head around the rapid moves between cuts. 0 = off, the default. G-code export is unaffected.
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers everything new.
Cut direction (As drawn / Climb / Conventional) is now on the Path toolbar too, right after Lead Side Swap, so you can see and change it from every tab. It turns amber whenever a milling direction is on, because that makes Path Preview play back the other way.
Chamfer tool (Trim & Reshape toolbar, after Fillet; command “ch”): select two straight lines, then type one distance (a 45° cut at a square corner), two distances like 0.5,0.25, or a distance and an angle like 0.5<30. Enter reuses the last one.
Toolbar positions reset to the default arrangement once when you update (the layout changed to make room for the new tools).
The built-in Quick Reference guide covers the new tools.
Help > Check for Updates: checks 60ticks.com and takes you to the download if a newer version is out.
Tangent snap: draw a line that just touches a circle or arc. Click a circle or arc to start (the side you click is the side the line leaves from), then click any point or snap — or another circle or arc for a line tangent to both. Great for belts and pulleys.
Perpendicular snap: snap a new line square to an existing line, arc or circle.
Last Line Angle: with Ortho on, lock to the angle of the last line you drew (and square to it) instead of just horizontal and vertical.
3 Point Arc and 3 Point Circle: draw an arc or circle through three clicked points.
G-code settings: a new Program Options box — line numbers (N5, N10…), % at the start and end, an optional O program number, and “S0 before every rapid move” (turn it off for a mill) — plus a Retract Z setting (rapid down to a retract height, plunge only from there). Line numbers, % and O can be switched on or off at any time.
Fix: every feed and speed in the G-code now has a decimal point (F10., S24000.) — required by Haas and some other controls.
Fix: Trim no longer deletes a circle that has tangent lines touching it (the belt-and-pulley case).
The built-in Quick Reference guide (Help > Quick Reference) covers everything in this version.
The installer now asks you to close a running copy before it updates the program.
Download file names now include the version number.
Why I built it
I’ve personally owned three waterjets, run and maintained five, and our shop runs two today. I’m also a CAD designer — and that’s where the waterjet software always fell short for me.
In CAD I type L for line, C for circle, A for arc. To this day, when I draw in our old waterjet software, I catch myself typing those letters. Nothing happens, and I go back to drawing the way that software wants. Other things, like dragging lead-ins and lead-outs into place, just took too long.
After I’d written the ORD-2-NC Converter, I turned my attention to the drawing side and built the program I’d always wanted.
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