Pre-Glowforge Projects

This is a Laser Lace project I did at Fab Lab in Flint Michigan. I used their Epilog Laser.
I cut the same file 3 times shrinking it so I could see where the resolution broke down. It cut good on all three but the smallest is very fragile.

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Beautiful!! I love it!

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That’s a clever way to experiment, and it came out nicely!

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Very pretty! Are they made of paper?

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That’s lovely.

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Pretty…
And yes, as you discovered…at some point even though you see the lines on the screen, the width of the laser beam overlaps and vaporizes it…:smirk:
I have a standard width of .03125" when I cut stencils on polyester film (mylar) for any bridges or space between cut lines, otherwise it will break.

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Yes, they are cut out of paper. I used water color paper. I probably had the power too high because of the scorch marks but it was an experiment,.

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Glad to see someone else in Southeast Michigan :slight_smile:

Very nice experiment.

You’re not too far from me (but I’m across the border, haha).

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Sometimes I look south across the river to see my friends in Canada :astonished:

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