As a new type of cold cutting technology, abrasive water jet cutting is commonly applied to the engineering field with strong cutting ability and good cutting quality. In order to explore the influence of different cutting parameters on the cutting performance of abrasive water jet, the experimental scheme of steel plate cutting experiment was designed with quasi horizontal method. Experimental results show that the jet cutting ability and the pump pressure and cutting speed are positively correlated, nozzle diameter and cleave the target distance exists an optimum range, stacking interactions and submerged are on the cutting performance have varying degrees of impact.