I am attempting to laser and cut a 6.5X8.5 piece of draftboard. It says the job is 1:58 which seems kind of long. I tweaked the settings and have it down to 54 minutes. That still seems a little long. Draft Graphite, Speed 1000, Power 80. Is there something I’m missing?
Since using draft board is not recommended for the Aura, I will assume you have a performance machine. If that is correct and you are just cutting then this does seem to long, but if by “laser” you mean engrave, then it is very reasonable. I have done engravings that were hours long.
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What does this mean?
Cut is obvious, but what do you mean by “laser”?
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Yes, I meant to say cut and engrave. It’s only about 40 words.
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Yes, I meant to say cut and engrave.
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There are two periods of time you should think about. The first is how long you will wait for it to be done, and the second is how long you will be upset that you should have spent more time waiting for it to be done.
The key elements are how wide and how high the area to be engraved is. Better wide than high. but otherwise a few verticals or a solid engraving will take the same amount of time. A higher LPI will take longer, a slower speed will take longer, more or less power will not affect the time taken.
Personally I prefer the highest LPI, and the fastest speed practical, and make up the difference with the power, but I may be in a minority in that. But I would not worry if a large image takes 8 hours.
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I too have had engraves that took several hours. I knew before I started, with the settings I needed for the job, it was simply going to take time.
I think the longest I had was a pass-through job which I did really just to test the new feature – I’ve been here from the start. But it was a mix of engrave and cut that stretched over 30 inches. I am pretty sure I went to sleep at one point, and resume the job early the next morning.
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Ok thank you. I did end up lasering and cutting. Unfortunately the two pieces, which are the front and back of a little photo album, we’re not the same size. Plus, the holes on the left-hand side for the rings to go through to hold it together we’re in different places even though I flipped the image so frustrating.
If you flip the image exactly on its midpoint and put the piece exactly where it was, the image may look wrong, but should cut correctly. I do this all the time, and my best selling design in the catalog depends on doing that.
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I also do that all the time. My machine will go to precisely the same spot even after a power cycle. The jigs I have depend on that.
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