[Swansea Hackspace] Lasor cutter and bandsaw use this weekend

[Alex Duffield]

Keep me posted if you're in today :-)

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 5:00 PM Andy Rush <Andymrush at live.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
> ------------------------------
> *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> 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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