Hello,
I have noticed that program sends strange commands to laser when want to engrave (fill) I do not have set Flood Fill, because it only enlarge time by about 20%, so without that option is actually faster, but still. please look on pictures. Fill option is for 80 lines per inch only. not to deep…
Question is, why when speed is set to 3000mm/sec laser takes almost twice as long to do the same job than with speed of 6x less with 500mm/sec.
I thought it supposed to be opposite.
all it looks for me that with faster speed, the laser makes more non needed moves in area that won’t be processed. After trying same with “flood fill” ON, that is taking even more time… is it version of software issue and need to be a patch? or that is known issue and will be sorted?
Concerning is the fact that faster speeds should end with faster work done, not opposite.
Laser (Atomstack s20 pro)
Thanks, That is possible, I have looked into settings and yes, I have set for CO2 lasers instead, as did not checked that before I did the tests, but still I have that set to my library and it does the job in that speeds. I mean cut ply in 350mm/s 1p 80% as example, what is equal to 21000mm/min, ant that is odd as my atomstack max speed is 12000.
I do not really get then the idea behind that speeds
My mistake that I have set speeds for CO2, wasn’t aware of, but if we go by the example, that is not making much sense.
I cut carboard 3mm with speed of 1900mm/s 1pass 70% that would be equal to 114000 Speed, but again my laser max speed is 12.000 mm/min
How that works then?
what I mean by that is
12000mm/min = 200mm/s
my laser max speed by manufacturer is then 200mm/s
Somehow I use LB to cut 3mmply at 350mm/s, or 9mm at 400mm/s 4 passes 90%…
That would be impossible to speed that fast then…
something is wrong here anyway. Unless my laser can move twice or even five times as fast as manufacturer says.
I believe this still needs some answers as I might not be the only one with that concerns.
Cheers
As I understand it, you can enter whatever speed above the machines capability as you like but it will be capped at the max speed the machine can do. In effect having a higher speed set, will have no impact.
Yes, that is well true. I have also checked to another topic I just made and all is problem with speed settings, however do not know why power setting has changed. I mean max power. The shape properties were fine just max power gone… but that is not big issue as I do check that most often anyway,
So sorry for silly thing but would not know that if I would not ask.
Thank you both for helping
There is something wrong, the values you describe for cutting 3mm (BB?) plywood do not even match my 60Watt CO2 laser. There is some decimal that does not fit. I have good results with 30 to 40mm/s and 30 to 45% power for this material.
