Also. I’ve had this less than a month, spent over $7,000 on it and this mirror appears to be damaged…
As a troubleshooting step, I suggest printing the Gift of Good Measure on the spare medium draftboard provided with the machine. That will eliminate any issues with the focus and power.
Just by way of example, here’s an example of a similar cut, except this is on much heavier stock (chipboard) - the top image is a sample about 1" in length. The cuts are clean and precise. (Back-lit as it’s cut from black stock.)
The source file:
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To override the autofocus, you need to set the material height to one value and the focus height to another.
For example, .015 material thickness, and .014” focus height. The values have to be different to override autofocus, or it will use the autofocus measurement.
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I’ll try to find the Gift of Good measure stuff. I don’t remember seeing it. Offsetting the material and focus height gives me this awesome, unusable gigantic line with burn marks on corners
It really seems like your lens is upside down. Did you check yet?
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How do I check that? Is it something I installed initially? I’m trying the gift of good measure. Not much good happening there either.
Well, there’s your problem!
Here’s what it should look like:
Ahhhh. I think I got it. The mirror and the lens had grime on them. I used the lens cleaner towelette and the little blue lens remover and cleaned everything. It is looking especially crisp now. I’m printing the gift of good measure and it is looking fantastic.
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Now try the paper…
Working on the paper right now. It is pinpoint focused, but not cutting through everywhere. It cut the border completely and most of the rest, but It didn’t cut through in other areas. Also, the lines of my image are extremely jagged… I’m going to have to figure out how to smooth those out…
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settings seem a little bit high on power. have you cleaned the optics in the machine recently? or was it just the mirror that was dirty not the main focus lens and 2 windows?
To smooth out your lines you might be able to open the file with a program like inkscape and use the “smooth” option to reduce its complexity.
I disagree, 500 64 seems low for heavy 140lb cardstock, and higher speeds will always have greater acceleration effects. I think a more consistent result can be had in the 300 range.
I’d suggest backing up and using a test to dial in your cut power. I’d personally do a set speed 300 test and back into the power.
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Lenses and mirrors can get pretty dirty even after just a few projects. Any time you have issues with not cutting through, the FIRST thing you should do is clean them.
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Also I’m thinking you have some duplicate lines in your artwork; they cancel each other out and you’ll get areas that don’t cut as a result. It’s pretty common with traced images.
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It looks dirty to me. That’s one of the places you need to check regularly to see if it needs cleaning.
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The power is to low, raise the power to 90 and increase the speed.
I use 100 precision and 250 speed, little adhesive and were good.
Ok so I have the GF dialed in for making my stencils. Now I am making so many that I want to swap them out quickly without having to BLE an debris off the honeycombed GF tray. Does anyone have a suggestion for a cheap material I can place on the tray, under the paper that is uncuttable?
Aluminum foil
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Most common metals except copper or just vacuum the bits out.