Carbon Fiber - Can you cut it?

[glink9416]

Does anyone know if you can cut carbon fiber with the glowforge?

[johnj]

Can I cut carbon fiber?

Just wondering if you’ve done any testing with flat carbon fiber pieces. I’m wondering if I’ll be able to cut spare parts for flying toys.

[abeldiazjr]

Laser cutting carbon fiber can be done. Here’s a thread:

Cutting Carbon Fiber cloth

I suppose not many folks would have carbon fiber “just laying around”… Pulled this chunk of material out of the trash can LOL. I drew a silver dividing line through it. The top portion is raw 11oz 2x2 twill weave carbon. The lower portion below the silver line is the same material but it’s been saturated with water clear silicone rubber - another experiment for another day haha. Anyway, interesting enough, both these holes were cut at the same settings and the raw carbon cut muc…