Let's see your lasers

[Walt Krafft]

I use ezcad. See above for others.

 

[jkohler]

If you really what to learn how to use the full potential of lightburn or ezcad laser everything has lots of info and also a getting started series on both and also tuning your lenses but there not short videos

 

[jelrod1]

I use Lightburn. Here is a little cheat sheet I got. This is based on 30W. It’s been pretty close. Just have to play with the passes.

 

[LVLAaron]

First cuts... Pretty cool! I haven't done any fine tuning or calibration with it yet... couldn't resist trying some things and setting some paper on fire.

 

[V35]

Looks great Aaron.

 

[Henryrifle]

That does look great!

Hank

 

[LVLAaron]

 

[Henryrifle]

Aaron, are you engraving the plate & barrel with ezcad or have you installed lightburn? Asking because I have taken a chance and ordered one from eBay/China.

Thank you,
Hank

 

[urbanrifleman]

Aaron, are you engraving the plate & barrel with ezcad or have you installed lightburn? Asking because I have taken a chance and ordered one from eBay/China.

Thank you,
Hank

Which one did you decide to get if you don't mind?

 

[Henryrifle]

Which one did you decide to get if you don't mind?

 

[LVLAaron]

I started with ezcad and then Lighbtburn... Both take some fiddling to get working right. If you're just doing basic marking... ezcad is fine.

It's sort of like ms paint vs photoshop.

It's worth paying a couple bucks to get into the lasereverything masterclass and go through the training courses. They're dry and slow but the info you need is there.

 

[urbanrifleman]

That is the exact one I was going to get.

 

[Henryrifle]

I opted for the 110x110 lens. Hope that wasn't a mistake. I guess I have about 2 weeks to understand how to use it...

Hank

 

[LVLAaron]

110 will speed up your deep engraving. Smaller the lens the better

 

[Judd]

I’m 99% sure that’s the one I have, mine is a 30w. I use lightburn.

I had a Polaris Ranger and a buddy had this engraver, we figured out a mutually beneficial trade and I now have the laser. The major advantage is he gave me all the settings for stuff and the setup. The previous picture is 3 different settings deep engrave, dark engrave and the bottom one is a deep engraved with a white pass (removed all the black).

Deer season opened Saturday so I haven’t got back to messing with it anymore.

 

[LVLAaron]

freelasersettings

www.lasereverything.net

 

[urbanrifleman]

I’m 99% sure that’s the one I have, mine is a 30w. I use lightburn.

I had a Polaris Ranger and a buddy had this engraver, we figured out a mutually beneficial trade and I now have the laser. The major advantage is he gave me all the settings for stuff and the setup. The previous picture is 3 different settings deep engrave, dark engrave and the bottom one is a deep engraved with a white pass (removed all the black).

Deer season opened Saturday so I haven’t got back to messing with it anymore.

Picture?

 

[Judd]

It’s the only one I have right now.

 

[Henryrifle]

I think that is the same as the eBay item I purchased.

Hank

 

[CCM]

Dumb question... You achieve that depth by doing multiple passes, right? The machine specs say something like .003 depth - but I'd just do a bunch of passes to get to the desired depth?

I'm sure I'm botching terms here, but you know what I mean

Sorry for the late response..yes its multiple passes. In Lightburn you can set up settings with multiple stages. I set for 3 cross hatched engraving passes then a cleanup. Repeat that 4-5 times. The cleanup passes help clear slag out of the engraving.

Lasertips.org and lasereverything.net are both good resources, LE used to offer settings packages and lens converters though I don't know if they still do.