[Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this weekend

[Andy Rush]

No guarantees, as there's a decent chance I'll be in Cardiff for the weekend, but I might be down at the space on Sunday
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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 4:07:06 PM
To: Swansea Hackspace
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this weekend

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<mailto: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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