[Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this weekend

[Alex Duffield]

P.s. the reason this weekend and not Monday is up up to check on the house
but am back home on Sunday night in Dorset so can't make Monday session

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 3:43 PM Andy Rush <Andymrush at live.co.uk> wrote:

> Scratch that, I meant a vector engrave, NOT a Vector cut. My bad.
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> *From:* Hackspace <hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> on behalf
> of Andy Rush <Andymrush at live.co.uk>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:41:21 PM
> *To:* Swansea Hackspace
> *Subject:* Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this
> weekend
>
> Yes, use a vector cut rather than a raster engrave. Instructions for
> setting that up are on the link Alice provided.
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> *From:* Hackspace <hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> on behalf
> of Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:37:40 PM
> *To:* Swansea Hackspace
> *Subject:* Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this
> weekend
>
> also is it possible to "engrave" as a "cut" path just on really low power?
> im after simple single line engraving path rather than anything with
> thickness
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:35 PM Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yea I've seen that but planning a light etch rather than a full blown cut
>> do hopeful
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 3:13 PM Alice Mitchell <
>> alice at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 14:44 +0100, Alex Duffield wrote:
>>> > Is anyone whoes versed in the lasor cutter and bandsaw able to help
>>> > me out this weekend, I need to make some helmet visors for which I
>>> > want to cut the general shape (cos a Dremel is slow af) and lasor
>>> > etch a honeycomb structure onto the lense, the material is 1.5mm
>>> > polycarbonate, I'd also ideally need to know what format and layout
>>> > I'll need to be able to upload the file
>>>
>>> >From what I have read polycarbonate doesnt tend to do great in the
>>> cutter, it discolours and melts.  so try a scrap piece first.
>>>
>>> guide to getting the artwork prepared is on the website:
>>> http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/LaserPrep
>>>
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