Using a laser cutter with thermoform paper

[joe]

This looks pretty awesome. Now I have another material to check out when I get my Glowforge.

Defocusing was talked about before. They don’t talk about this material, but there is some good info in the threads below.

Defocusing the Laser: HOW will it be controlled?

So I read a lot of topics of the different applications one will use with a defocused laser; however, I haven’t seen it be stated on how this will be accomplished and by what control we will have of it. My past experience with laser cutters is that you assign a color (say red) and red means you are going to vector cut at 100% power and at 50% speed and 1000Hz (if you lowered the Hz down to 10 and lowered your speed, you’d essentially get a dashed line from what otherwise would be a straight lin…

Defocused Laser Applications

@dan has mentioned this is a feature planned for the future on occasion. And a few applications have been mentioned here and there. I am curious what other ideas people have, and want it all in one location for future reference when the feature exists. First off, what does defocusing mean? –There is a lens which puts all the power of the laser in one tiny spot. That is why a 45W laser, which is delivering the same power into the world as a 45W light bulb, can cut materials. Because instead…