Andrea Herman
11-08-2023, 3:29 PM
Hello, my name is Andrea and I'm the coordinator of the Innovation Lab makerspace at the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, MN.
We've been open since 2016 and I've used and taught our ULS VLS3.50 since then. Weirdly, I had this question pop up twice after never coming up before.
Lab members were engraving boxes and tried to do thickness of the material rather than height of the box. The laser ended up moving on its own to the height of the object. So, it looks like you must use height rather than thickness for hollow objects, at least on the ULS VLS3.50.
The Lab members questioned whether that would make the engraving too deep. One of them had an issue where the laser burned too deep, the other did not (so that might be a coincidence). I didn’t have any issue trying it myself.
So, is there any issue or mitigation that needs to happen when engraving a hollow object?
This message has been cross-posted to other laser engraving forums.
Thanks, Andrea
We've been open since 2016 and I've used and taught our ULS VLS3.50 since then. Weirdly, I had this question pop up twice after never coming up before.
Lab members were engraving boxes and tried to do thickness of the material rather than height of the box. The laser ended up moving on its own to the height of the object. So, it looks like you must use height rather than thickness for hollow objects, at least on the ULS VLS3.50.
The Lab members questioned whether that would make the engraving too deep. One of them had an issue where the laser burned too deep, the other did not (so that might be a coincidence). I didn’t have any issue trying it myself.
So, is there any issue or mitigation that needs to happen when engraving a hollow object?
This message has been cross-posted to other laser engraving forums.
Thanks, Andrea