Scoring 1/16 acrylic from Johnson’s Plastics Plus

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make some earrings

I usually use 2 color 1/16 acrylic for earrings, (exception is 1/8 with a heavy score for the depth look).
I have some ballpark parameters I have saved as custom 2 color. They will get you near a happy place but you still need to test each of the different colors and brands.
The numbers are good for two-color or single.
Reds. Teals, Black seem to need a heavy hit. Tests like that…

Inventables 2 Color Acrylic Settings

Yes and no. The plastic masking comes off all the materials. I use paper masking on leather, wood and plastics. As a rule I try to engrave/score/cut vector designs without masking on the two color. Only once have I got discoloration//char from doing it this way. It was a marble looking two color and for some reason it wanted to flare and flame (suspect something in the materials to make it look like marble). If there is a raster element, they tend to sweep over the entire design and this can…

Also have some defocus testing you can examine Just slow down a bit or hit a little harder for defocus, since you are not getting the meat of the beam.

Fun With De-Focused Score - time saver experiment

I decided to take some time and experiment with the de-focus score (thickness adjustment) concept. I chose this butterfly design specifically because it took a lot of fiddling to get it to work in a 3 step process. Engrave body, engrave wing, cut design. I was working with it as nodes primarily. Maybe a better way to do it, but it was what I used to finally get it to laser in 3 steps the way I wanted it to. First part of the experiment worked well, in that it took me just a few minutes to mak…