How to prepare your files for feeding into the laser program to cut
Scenario 1: If the vector has overlapped paths and it will be cut repeatedly. Solution： In RDworks, you can use “Delete overlap” tool to delete all overlapped paths, like below. Scenario 2: If you’d to make a rectangle at 30×30mm, however, it becomes 29.9×29.9mm when cut it through on material, because there’s a little […]
How to prepare your files for feeding into the laser program to engrave
Note: the laser machine can only burn into or through material. Also, the beam can only be made to follow straight or curved paths or to burn a grid of dots (a bitmap image). There is no way for the laser to represent color. ● Scanned Image Engraving The image is engraved by the laser […]
Cutting problem– Some point of the same piece of materials cannot be cut through
The bending of the material or the uneven working table can result in different focal lengths, especially for the large cutting graphic.
Engraving problem—how to Improve Engraving Quality in the scan mode of X-swing
The engraving quality working on x-swing is generally worse than x-unilateralism, it usually results in ghosting effect or image offset or bi-directional engraving offset, like below. In RDworks, you can adjust the Reverse Interval to improve this issue. 1. Open the test file; Click the link below for the test file: https://www.thunderlaser.com.au/download/down/Reverse%20interval-%20test.rld You only need […]
Engraving problem—the engraving quality is very poor
The bending of the material or the uneven working table can result in different focal lengths, especially for the large engraving graphic.
The laser tube won’t fire the beam
Please make sure laser switch is on, then open lower left hand door panel (or back side door panel), check if the laser power supply is showing sign of receiving power — fans is running and power light is up, like below.
