Speed and Power Settings for Thin Materials

[bartbakker]

The 3020 manual publicizes speed and power settings for cutting materials 2 mms and up.
But for architectural modeling we need layers if thinner material.
Paper, cardstock, airplane triplex, styrene etc from 0.1 to 2.0 mms.

Is there somewhere a table of the settings for cutting thin materials ?

Thanks,
Bart Bakker

[Daven]

Not that I know of - and to be honest if you get the Newlydraw version you will find that the power settings are only approx due to the speed being controlled by the potentiometer.

There have been a few posts about cutting various materials here so may be worth having a search through some of the posts here for the materials.

It would be handy though so I will compile a table if anyone wants to add to it so we can refer to it once in a while

Edit - oh and forget the published settings - they will knock your tube out quite quickly and in some cases are overkill IMO.

Cheers

Dave

[avalonman]

I have a 6840 and i draw a series of horizontal lines and boxes assign different speeds and power ratings to each

Usually start with 10 lines and assign from full speed down to half speed divided by the lines and in opposition power from lowest to about half and do this both on cutting and create boxes to engrave

i.e

sp 400 x p 10
sp 380 x p 15
sp 360 x p 20

and so on

then i do this on a test piece and choose which works best.

I then cut a section of the material and write the settings on, this shows me both an engrave possibility and a clean cut.

hope that helps