Laserbox & Glowforge power/speed settings

Every laser cutter uses different parameters to set the power, speed and DPI. I’ve used Epilog, HPC, and Glowforge laser cutters and they all have different settings. Although some manufacturers publish guides for different materials (and Makeblock have a small but useful library of materials in the software), in the main you need to experiment with settings for each new type of material you use as they all will have different properties.

Trying to convert from one manufacturers settings to another is not going to yield you any better results than trying to estimate the settings yourself from looking at the built in library of materials and making some test cuts etc.

For instance there is no setting in the Laserbox software for 3mm MDF which I regularly use but MDF is very similar to 3mm Pine and that setting worked fine for me - I only had to tweak the engraving settings slightly to reduce some burn.

I’d say spend a few hours making some test cuts and engraves and make notes and then add materials to the built in library once you have the settings that work for your particular material. You will even find you will have to tweak settings with different stock of the same material.

And yes this forum is not well used or known but hopefully that might situation might change with more users getting machines.

Hope that helps.

Stu