picture engraving with LC v.5.85

[a542002]

Hi all
I thought I put my experience with picture engraving with my little converted K40 system with the AW-608 card and lasercut v.5.85 up here.
I am doing a lot of picture in diofferent materials like corian, acrylic cast and all kinds of wood and I did it in the beginning with using coreldraw X4 and X5 and prepairing the picture in corel photopaint x4 and x5.
over time I found out that if I prepaire the picture in photopaint to 8 bit greyscale save them in BMP and import them directly in lasercut they come out excellent better as if I used coreldraw first. this way it gives much more depht .
I use in lasercut the build in dithering and mostly set the dithering value on 0.001 and the scan gap to 0.04.
maybe somebody like this too.
left picture shows corian 1 pass with 60 speed and poer at 40%, the right shos two pass with 40 speed and 60% power ( about 10mA)

[a542002]

Hi all
here is another picture made with the DSP and a 40W co2 chinese laser
the intend was to try to make a kind of semi 3D picture with this laser
it did come out pretty good especially in this dark bamboo
greetings
walt

[twehr]

Hi all
here is another picture made with the DSP and a 40W co2 chinese laser
the intend was to try to make a kind of semi 3D picture with this laser
it did come out pretty good especially in this dark bamboo
greetings
walt

laserpict1scanhelg.jpg

For anybody who has not tried it...Bamboo is wonderful for engraving and cutting; engraves and cuts nicely but still is a reasonably hard material. The engraving tone can be really nice darker brown. I love working with Bamboo.

The hard part is getting 1/8" Bamboo, which is so nice for a lot of projects. Even 1/4" is a tad hard to locate. I know of one dealer in the US but minimum ordering qty is more that I need/want/can afford!

[a542002]

Hi tim
I use bamboo flooring panels ( solid) and plane them down to about 3/8 inch I probably could plane it down to 1/4 never try this because I am happy with 3/8.
if you want some send me a PM I can give it to you for just the shipping.
grretings
walt

Hi all
here is another picture made with the DSP and a 40W co2 chinese laser
the intend was to try to make a kind of semi 3D picture with this laser
it did come out pretty good especially in this dark bamboo
greetings
walt

laserpict1scanhelg.jpg

For anybody who has not tried it...Bamboo is wonderful for engraving and cutting; engraves and cuts nicely but still is a reasonably hard material. The engraving tone can be really nice darker brown. I love working with Bamboo.

The hard part is getting 1/8" Bamboo, which is so nice for a lot of projects. Even 1/4" is a tad hard to locate. I know of one dealer in the US but minimum ordering qty is more that I need/want/can afford!