Rick
(Technical Evangelist)
September 17, 2019, 1:47am
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LightBurn does not provide library presets. The Materials Library is yours to fill out with the settings you have tested to work well with your system.
This might help you get started.
Boss Laser has a list of starting points for settings on their site, with different values for different wattage machines: https://www.bosslaser.com/laser-settings
It won’t be perfect, but it should get you going.
For materials, Google is your friend - there are lots of online guides that will tell you what is safe, what is “mostly safe”, which materials don’t work well, and which ones to avoid completely.
In the never list, most prominent are PVC and vinyl, because they contain chloride com…