[Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this weekend

[Alice Mitchell]

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 15:37 +0100, Alex Duffield wrote:
> 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
> 

Yes, if it is fast enough and low power enough.

An etch is just a very light cut, or rather a cut is just a very deep
engrave.

vector cut mode just draws down the center of the outline of your
shapes in a single pass.  you can deepen it by repeating it.

vector engrave is identical to vector cut it just allows for a second
set of speed/power parameters in the one file.

engrave mode does a raster scan of the solid shapes so can do much
wider lines and other shapes, and tends to run the cutter at a very
high speed [thats not achievable in vector mode]