[Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this weekend

[Alex Duffield]

presuming i can get all the artwork sorted out anyone able to help me on
saturday or sunday?, possibly friday igth if no other time?


On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:47 PM Alice Mitchell <
alice at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

> 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]
>
>
>
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