Craft Foam Sheets Safety and Settings

I bought some craft foam sheets on Amazon and I was wondering if anybody has some settings that worked well.

One type is 5mm: Extra Thick Craft Foam Sheets - EVA Material

The other foam type is: Darice Foamies Adhesive Back Foam Sheets

Also, do I have to apply paper backing to avoid burn marks?

Thanks much!

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There’s been some threads on this, if you search for “craft foam” or “Eva foam” settings you should find discussions about it.

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Like this one

as for paper, my foam was black to begin with so kinda hard to tell if I got black burns :laughing:

btw thank you for the amazon link

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Foam cuts very well, and generally at a high speed/low power so I’ve never needed to put masking on it. The slower/hotter you go the more the foam will curl away from the cut - so a 2nd high speed cut is better than a slower single cut
If you’re doing something with a lot of intricate shapes close together you might need some, but that would definitely be an edge case!

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Thank you! This makes sense.

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