I have my new Weike 6040 laser (and thanks to those who gave advise on how to get it into my basement.... I'll provide an update and full review of the process and laser at a later date).
Quick question though.
The laser requires use of LaserCut 5.3, which frankly I find very easy to use. I'm a 25 year veteran of Illustrator and spent years using CorelDraw as well, LaserCut seems super simple. Inside LaserCut, however, when you chose your settings for cuts and engraving, you can set any cut line and give it a power and speed, obviously. But you can do the same thing at the laser control panel. Not sure how that works.
So lets say I have a simple circle and a square, and I want to cut the circle, so I set the colour for that cut line in LaserCut to a power of 100 and a speed of 10. When I download that file to the laser, on the control panel, should the laser settings be at 100/100 power and 100/100 speed? My guess was that you set the laser to max for both speed and power and then adjust it from within the file in LaserCut, no?
And since we're on the subject, I've seen a number of sites (Rabbit Laser for example) which offer some preliminary power/speed recommendations (like 100 power, 10 speed for cutting 1/4 acrylic, or 100 speed, 80 power for engraving acrylic). Are these the same forms of measurement as the settings in LaserCut? In other words, are they the numbers I use, or are the speed and power measurements inside the program a different type of calculation. Not sure if I'm making sense, but hopefully I am. To clarify, what I mean is, when I see online a setting for speed for example of 300, is that 30o somethings per second where the settings for speed in the software are measured as percentages?
Ideally, please only answer if you actually use LaserCut. I know on here there are a lot of US laser users (and I know that means I'll start getting lots of "you shouldn't have bought a Chinese laser" comments, lol) but I want to be sure the info I'm getting is accurate, so ideally if you've used LaserCut, you might know. Thanks.