I am a premium member and received the upgrade to my GF. It states I should see faster results. When I engrave the timing is still the same. With that said do I need to change my settings? I normally engrave cutting boards with 1000/100/225. With this new upgrade do I double those settings to get a faster engrave time?
If you like the results you have been getting with your current settings, do not change them.
The upgrade you speak of (premium subscription) changes the processing time, but not the operation time. If you are speaking of the upgrade that announced faster engrave times for all, it was a change to how engraves are performed. For cutting boards, if you increase your engrave speed, the area that can be engraved will be reduced. That probably is not what you want.
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The “faster speeds” upgrade from this spring is unrelated to Glowforge Premium. It increased the maximum speeds available for you to choose as settings. You might experiment with increasing both speed (to somewhere between 1000 and 2000) and power (to full) to see if you can still get acceptable results while cutting down your job time. Additionally, job time has been reduced for many jobs that involve vector engraves even if you don’t change settings, because the machine now moves between parts of the job more quickly and changes direction more quickly. If you have a job where the head has to jump around a lot to engrave different parts, that should finish faster than it did before.
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It is hard to get 200% power but 2000 speed is available 225 LPI I consider rough and 450LPI is closer to my minimum, If your design is large enough the result will be stronger but not much faster.
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thank you. So increasing the speed from 1000 to 1500 will engrave my vector file faster?
thank you
It will…but sacrificing width area and also will be much lighter in color unless you also increase the amount of power as the engrave/cut/whatever is dependent on amount of energy from the laser that hits a spot.
Very similar to the relational triangle for photography. Exposure aperture and iso.
Speed power and focus. Each controls more or less energy put into a single place at a given time.
There’s an image of the relational triangle around somewhere.
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If you haven’t, I suggest you read this: https://support.glowforge.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033633574-Working-With-Manual-Mode
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