So if you were cutting an oak 2.5 thickness how many passes would it take to get thru a 2.5mm layer thickness if it’s running at 1000mm/m and 100% laser power?
I doubt you’re imparting enough energy at 1000mm/m to effectively cut even in 20 passes.
Sorry I meant to clarify, FOR THE 10W laser, my bad.
I’m not sure, but likely not many. I’ve almost punched through 19mm solid maple with the 10W in about 10-15 passes at ~600mm/m.
What are the odds that a 4x6in engraving will have the same settings as that same engraving excepts it’s more like 9x11in? When I say same settings obviously I mean to look good.
Upsizing won’t change the settings used. If it looks decent at 4x6, unless the image has really bad artifacts, will look fine at 9x11. Just make sure to use either SVG or high quality images.
Very good thanks man.
Hey man. I’m trying to engraving a Bible verse thru Lightburn thru a flash drive but the z offsets are confusing the crap out of me. I set the z offset in Lightburn which is just the thickness of the product and I also have to do it on the touchscreen on Snapmaker and then I just don’t know what’s what anymore. Because I have two offset and I don’t know how they interact, help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced.
Any help?plz
If you’re using the file on the usb drive, do not set a material thickness in lightburn, since that is being handled by the machine. Only use the material thickness setting if you’re using lightburn directly over serial, or using my wifi sender. Not if using Luban or flash drive.
Gotcha, makes sense.
I also really don’t like when I use a flash drive to run a job, it outlines the entire workspace instead of just the engraving itself. Very annoying, any tips?
That I can’t really help with, I don’t use the framing function as I run projects purely remotely.
What is framing function? And what do you mean remotely? Like thru Wi-Fi
I assume you meant the framing option, which outlines the extents of the engrave. There’s two modes in lightburn, the one with the square and one with a circle. The square does just that, a box around the extremes of the engrave (this is also what Luban/Snapmaker does by default). The circle one has a more organic path, actually going around the engrave.
Also yes, entirely over wi-fi. I do up my project in Lightburn, export the gcode file, then drag/drop it onto my sender batch file. It sends it to the snapmaker and starts it remotely.
When you say drag and drop, what does that look like?
So can you run it without your computer on?
Once it’s started, the machine runs independently as if you ran it from USB.