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Hi I discovered that my machine (3060) cuts over size too. But rather than messing around with steps and stuff why not just adjust your drawings? Here is what I do: Draw a line ( or two marks apart) of known length as near to the maximum length as you can (on my machine a 500mm line or marks would d...

I too have a 3060. I found out by accident that it cuts 2mm MDF much better at lower power. So try 10 at 35%, with a corner of 12%. Make sure the air assist is on and you are using decent MDF, and it is focussed at optimum. On those setting the parts should just drop out cleanly.

Rob

Well the cleaning with soap and water works well but the laser is miscutting a lot now. I can not now predict when and why, some days its fine but sometimes (quite often) it misaligns the layers. Its a real battle and quite stressful, and I'm wasting lots of material and time. Its not a speed thing ...

I think I've solved the slipping problem. I had been trying to clean the Z belt with alcohol. You can pull the belt out a little, twist it and get at the teeth. I now know that iso alcohol will not touch the gunk that builds up from cutting lots of wood - but there is something that does, cleans it ...

My 3060 has a rather basic aluminium tray with two u channels screwed to it, onto which the honeycomb bed rests. I loosened these channels and put some packing shims before re-tightening. That helped a bit - its not thou perfect but that won't matter much.

Rob

My 3060 does this more and more. I cant figure it out - sometimes perfect but more often not. Belt tension seems OK - not speed dependent. I've noticed other problems with misaligned layers even when cutting at 4mm/sec, so its not a speed thing. And sometimes, when contouring, it ends up 3mm or so n...

Hobarts are now selling 1mm clear cast acrylic - very useful stuff, so I've ordered some

Rob

This is just an anecdote of a mistake I made but didn't realise it was a mistake until much later... read on... Long before I had a laser... We decided to have our loft re-insulated; there were government offers on at the time, and you could have put my current insulation into an envelope and it wou...

That's a nice idea on how to make things bendy - have to borrow that one I'm afraid

I've had a lot of trouble with 2mm mdf lately and suggest the following sanity check: Draw 6 shapes and assign each one a different layer/colour. Set a speed of say 8 and assign each colour a power of 10, 25, 40, 55, 70, 85. I was surprised to find that 30 -45 was way better that 75% or higher. Once...