I am new to this, 60w orion laser, attempted my first cutting, small squares.
I am using a masonite type board, 1/8", purchased from Home Depot, white acrylic finish one side (which I placed on the bottom).
started out at 50% power, 10 mm/sec. didn’t work.
at 80% power and 7mm/sec I made the first cut. played with the settings a little and made 7 other successful cuts.
all in all not terribly impressed with the results. heavy burn marks on the surface adjacent to the cuts and I thought the cutting would be faster and with less power.
I then created an odd shape to see what would happen and made several unsuccessful cuts, again changing settings at each attempt. my last attempt was at 100% power at 5mm/sec.
I tried cutting circles with no success. went back to the squares and failed to make any cuts at all.
please help!
another problem.
I began testing my laser with a 100 dpi black/white photo at greyscale.
I engraved on a piece of 14" birch ply. played with many settings.
Made 20 samples. Today I cannot load the same file.
FILE FAILED TO TRANSFER
MACHINE MAY BE BUSY OR IDLE
do not understand the issue.
Masonite is hard to cut, it’s pretty dense and full of glue. If you was to practice, try 1/8 luan or something. every material will be different. If you have a plastics supply near by, see if you can get some scrap Acylic ( not polycarbonate ) and cut it, Acylic cuts well.
If you are trying to do 3D engraving with the grayscale, plywood is not the best, each layer is a different density, not going to get good results. If you are trying to etch a photo, use one of the dithered modes. CO2 lasers don’t give shading ( the range is very narrow ) with grayscale.
As far as transfers stopping, did you pause the laser or something. I have this happen once in a blue moon, I just reset the controller.
Thanks for the advice, Joel, especially paragraph 2. Appreciate it. Fish
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