Think i know the answer but looking for input. Have several projects with cut and glued on parts on 3 mm baltic birch plywood. I use a low power setting on my 35 watt diode laser to outline where the parts go. I can go down to 8% power and still get a light trace which is what i want. But if i go down to 5% I don’t get any trace at all although the laser does fire. I’m assuming that would be the minimum power setting I could use.
Also just noticed the little blue dot after i enter text that allows me to arch the text. Seems to have just showed up. Maybe i did something to enable that because i never saw it before.
Mine doesn’t mark anything below 10% power unless I’m moving at very slow speeds, so 8% is a good minimum.
You probably just never noticed it. Hidden in plain sight. I don’t know of any way to enable/disable that function for text, unlike the shape tools where you hold Ctrl/Cmd to make it appear.
I also didnt know you could flip the text upside down. Makes sense if your going to arch the text on the bottom of the design. And slant the text left or right. Been using Lightburn for 2 years, how could i miss all of this
Led diode lasers are digital and when they lase, they do so at 100%. If your power is set for 1%, then it only lases for the 1% of the pwm period. Might be able to see it, but there isn’t any overall power there to do much work.
