What are these double (phantom) lines during my cuts?

Used this jig that I cut out of relatively thin acrylic. I cut one out to ensure the meter and mounts line up…

Then I cut one with just the green layer… This is the drilling template.

Ensure what you want/don’t want is enabled for output.

Added a 15mm base on the jig, so I could use the Ruida console as an alignment square… bottom is the drilling jig…

Cut the machines case with a hole saw on the hand drill.

51mm-15mm-meter-cutout.lbrn (42.8 KB)


I check my vertical alignment with this jig, from Sadler, that fits on a lens tube…

Good luck

:smile_cat:

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A tip o’ the hat for saying that!

The hardest problems I ever encountered had the solution right in front of me the whole time. :grin:

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… were usually self induced.
(speaking for myself, of course)

Jim

That jig is a pretty good idea… when I installed the gauge in my K40 I used one of these (the one’s I have are still pretty good):

Eyeball

And besides… if it was crooked, those were what was going to notice it more often than not.

I also recently ordered one of these:

It’s going to go above the laser control panel too. Just to have cursor control and an extra left mouse button, at the laser. There are many times that I am ready to send a job from my desktop computer (where the mouse and keyboard are) or make a last minute adjustment, like I want to run a “Frame” before hitting “Start” but don’t want to go back and forth with the mouse in my hand… and I inevitably end up leaving the mouse over on the laser when I get back to my desk (a few steps away). And I can see my screen plainly from either location. It’s wireless and won’t be mounted… just on rubber feet.

[I just hope I don’t have to paint my fingernails blue to use it.]

Jim

Is this a little more like you expected:

Me too.

Jim

Yes. Although I’m curious about the 20% and 90%. Are those nearly cut through?

Did something change to account for this?

The 10 mm/s at 20% power (or any 10% power for that matter) is not cut through.
The 30 mm/s at 90% power is cut through (as is the 80%), but I would have to force the pieces out from the backside, and as a result, I don’t want to include those settings in my “successful” category, so I’ve left them in place.

So, I suppose, to use your terms, yes… they are nearly cut through.

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Moved this post to a more appropriate thread, as I now consider this problem solved.
(and sometimes I can go on, and on, and on…)
:smiley:

Jim

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