Having trouble engraving on 3mm clear Perspex on my K40+, I ran a material test and 250mm/s at 15% power came out the best. But when I tried to engrave the engraving it’s inconsistent, its deep in specific areas if that is on text or a design. Left, top and right seem to be affected. Engrave around the edge also doesn’t seem very smooth.
Have you measured and applied the Scanning Offset Adjustment?
If not, do those tests & measurements on cardboard over a wide range of speeds, fill in the table with half the measured offset distances, and see if that improves the situation.
Thanks, I tried to run the tests, it warns it maybe out of bounds and then it does 1 line and stops
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If I turn off scanning offset off on the tests it works??
If you’re trying to do the measurements on the original design or haven’t set the origin correctly, then it’s entirely likely the overscan region extends beyond the machine boundaries.
Assuming the machine homes properly and you’re using Absolute Coordinatesand you’re making measurements on a small square in the middle of the work area and the line interval is around 0.5 mm, then it should work.
With the Scanning Offset settled, other problems come into play …
Are the designs for those ornaments simple outlines on a Fill layer? Or are they something more complex?
The irregularities echo the outer perimeter of the shape, which suggests trouble with the laser turning on after traversing the overscan region. What are the layer’s speed / power / overscan settings?
If you engrave a simple octagon (drawn as a LightBurn polygon) of about the same overall size with those settings, what does it look like?