I am going to be a new chinese laser owner and have a pretty good idea of laser usage from watching about 10 million videos, but i believe my machine will come with a honeycomb bed and i will be cutting some pretty intricate designs in plastic that is less than .1" thick. The designs will have areas of material that get as narrow as .5mm or so that will stay attached to the main work. there will be other areas that are cut that are meant to drop out once the cutting is complete.
to be clear, think of a christmas tree shape and cutting out small holes for lights, xmas bulbs, tinsel strands etc. or maybe long thin narrow leaves that will just be dangling off the work and only attached on one end like where it attaches to a branch.
will the air pressure form the machine air compressor or anything cause my material to move around making it necessary to find a way to do any type of hold down or should i be good to go? I have never owned a laser so i have no idea if plastic material between .06 and .1" will be heavy enough to stay put on its own during the process or not?
would i be better off making a raised pin bed of some sort to do my cutting on or just use the honeycomb, some of the stuff i want to cut would be so intricate that you would have to have a ton of pins to make enough support for some of the small pieces, so honeycomb seems like it would be sufficient to me at this point
im thinking guessing at this point around 50 watts at 15mm/sec might be a good starting point.