Today I’m cutting out some garden stakes on the laser. I’m using LightBurn for the cutting software, and my laser is a Comgrow Comgo Z1 10W LED Laser.
I purchased a set of vector graphics of 84 different garden stakes from a seller on Etsy, Ivan Bilous, owner of VectorPainter. These are very nice graphics, and work very well. One change I made was for any internal cutout, I duplicated the paths and applied a different stroke color. This allowed me to create a different cutting profile in Lightburn.
I found that for the smaller internal cuts, there would be excessive burning around the cuts, as they were completely cut out on the third pass. The exernal cut needed more passes to completely cut through. By adding a different cutting profile for the internal cutouts than the external cut, I was able to reduce the burning, while still getting a nice clean cut.
Below are shots from LightBurn of the object and the three layer settings.
LightBurn Garlic Garden Stake
LightBurn Inner Line Settings
LightBurn Inner Cut Settings
LightBurn Outer Cut Settings
Here are a few others I’ve already cut out.
Garden Stakes
Garden Markers by Ivan Bilous, Owner of VectorPainter
Comgrow ComGo Z1 10W Laser Engraver
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