Wood cutting and engraving is great on the Gweike cloud. As one expects from a CO2 laser, its much faster than the ortur I was using before and I had to play quite a bit to find some good settings for the new laser to optimize the performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I ran a few different thicknesses of wood as well as some other materials for my initial cutting work. Below is a table of the setting that I found to be best when cutting these materials<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also did some work to engrave stained wood for some effects. I was trying to have my engravings be differently colored than the stain on the wood. I found some basic rules of thumb to go along with the standard ones around depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A faster engraving gave a lighter color in the wood, it more removed the stain but didn’t color the wood after that. This showed up well over a dark stain. A slower engraving speed gave a darker engraving, slow and low power gives a sootier engraving for that dark color over a light stain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Always remember to have proper ventilation when engraving over stained wood. You don’t want to breathe stain into your lungs. I found 400mm\/s and 50% power to be a good setting for deeper engravings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gweike Cloud laser cutter worked out great for doing wood engravings and cutting. This was expected from the higher power laser, but its still amazing when coming from a low power diode laser to see the performance of a good CO2 laser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wood cutting and engraving is great on the Gweike cloud. As one expects from a CO2 laser, its much faster than the ortur I was using before and I had to play quite a bit to find some good settings for the new laser to optimize the performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[82,83,51],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","tag-co2-laser","tag-gweike-cloud","tag-laser-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Material<\/th> Speed<\/th> Power<\/th> Passes<\/th> Focus Height<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> 1\/16in thick Wood<\/td> 31 mm\/s<\/td> 95%<\/td> 1<\/td> 16mm<\/td><\/tr> 3mm thick Wood<\/td> 15 mm\/s<\/td> 95%<\/td> 1<\/td> 14mm<\/td><\/tr> 3mm thick Clear Acrylic<\/td> 15 mm\/s<\/td> 95%<\/td> 1<\/td> 14mm<\/td><\/tr> White CardStock<\/td> 80mm\/s<\/td> 50%<\/td> 1<\/td> 17mm<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Engraving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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