I’m trying to learn the behavior of this so I can manage to do successful laser cutting.
My first laser vector image was of a celtic knot. It came out great. One thing I wasn’t expecting though is that it cut along the borders of the black line cutting out the actual line. I was expecting the laser to cut following the line.
So, I took two vector images a solid black square and the outline of a square to see how the laser would cut these out.
It cut the outline of the square as I thought it would on both sides of the line leaving a very thin piece of card stock representing the line.
The solid square I thought it would follow the border of the square to cut it out but instead it started making a filled in square made up of very closely spaced lines.
Am I missing a step or some configuration setting? Is this normal operation among laser engraving/cutting machines?
What do I need to do to get it to cut along a line and not on both sides of it?
Thanks,
Dan