Laser/Experiments

about

This section explores different possibilities of parameters and their outcome. This is a good place to get you an idea on how to fine tune your parameters.

Material:

• The material
  • different parameters 1
  • different parameters 2
  • different parameters 3

• Soap
  • engraving a soap ended in the soap swelling, or so I’ve heard.

• Leather
  • Got a 1,5mm raw dark-brown leather, cutting goes incredibly well, but on one side it goes better then on the other. Speed: 45 or 40, Power: 100, Freq.: 2500
  • Engraving is not soo good, you can see the engraved parts, but only on 100/100, and then its not even black or something... May this depends on your leather

• Thin felt (knorrprandel Bogen 1mm)
  • Speed 100%
  • Power 10%
  • Pulse frequency 2500Hz
• Less thin felt (de: Filz), about 3mm
  • Cutting: Speed 90%, Power 20%
  • Engraving: more experiments to be done, but note: large black areas will melt the material deeply, thin lines will result in very betauful printing on the material (I used red felt, engraving on dark/brown/black felt might not make much sense)

• Jeans / Denim
  • engraving: 60% speed, 60% power.
  • engraving of denim glued onto wood: 60% speed, 100% power gets almost through the cloth and makes the wood partially visible.
  • cutting of denim glued onto wood: just cut a bit slower than through the wood alone (e.g. 15% speed instead of 20% speed)

ideas

• making a example raster / vector file for experimental cuts
  • using color mapping for different speed/power/frequency in one job. One example is Datei:slowdowntest.svg, see also Laser/Parameters#Notes on engraving vector lines.

settings for circuit boards

• montana black 312g net/11 oz. blue spray paint use speed 50%, power 100% and 5000hz