Also double cut lines (one red line on top of another) will cut twice causing burning and you will be charged for the extra cut time too.
LASER ENGRAVING SOFTWARE
The laser cutting software will find and cut every red line in your file, if you overlap them, mask them or hide them under another object they will be found and cut. It’s best to have all cut lines joined up so that the laser cutter follows the one single line and therefore cuts quicker, broken or segmented lines can result in longer cutting times. When cutting, intricate patterns take much longer to cut than simple shapes and straight lines are faster than tight curves or circles. We can cut materials from 0.3mm thick stencil material to 12mm thick (lightweight plywood). All of the materials listed can be cut, even the smallest of details. Our laser cutters can happily cut through a wide variety of materials as shown on our materials pages. When cutting, it cuts away approx 0.1mm of material on each side of the line. When the laser cuts it follows the red stroke lines in your file, straight down the middle of the line. LASER CUTTING - RED 0.1PT STROKE (NO FILL) There are 3 ways you can use the laser cutter. Send us your designs and we’d love to help you bring them to life. We make laser cutting easier and more affordable than you’d think and we work with the software that you’re used to – programs like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and Inkscape + many more. We set out to give artists, illustrators, designers and everyone in between easy access to laser cutting so they could make their designs a reality. It required the use of specialty CAD software to create the vector files that the machine could understand, it required expertise in part design and fabrication to use and it needed high volumes of production to justify the cost. Traditionally laser cutting has been used by engineers to cut complex parts for machines. By reducing the beam power you can mark the surface of the material, this is known as etching or engraving and can give some stunning effects on wood and plastic. The cutting beam is very thin (typically around 0.1mm) and precise resulting in incredibly detailed and accurate cuts. When cutting, the laser beam burns away at the material leaving you with the cutout shape that you have specified in your vector file. The Laser cutter works by directing a high powered laser beam very precisely at the chosen material to either etc, mark or cut right through.
Using the laser cutting process you can make things like signage, jewellery, prototype pieces as well as mass production jobs.
Laser cutting is the process of using a powerful laser to cut and/or engrave items from flat sheets of material like plastic, wood and many other materials.