Originally Posted by
Jacob John
Even the manufacturers of these things don't or won't share even baseline settings for materials. I find that to be telling in so many ways. I've basically begged for settings and can't get them!
Sure they will. SPI has a lot of settings for various materials. However, you have to go high end to get their systems. What so many of us are dealing with is a lower cost unit at the expensive of support and features. Want quick answers and guidance on settings? Spend $40K on a laser. Want to take the time to have to figure everything our yourself, fix you own machine, and be limited in functionality? Then don't buy a $40K laser. How much time/money is lost chasing these issues? Answer? A lot. At $90 per hour, figuring this issue out has cost over $1000 in lost revenue already, I'm guessing (it would if it were done in my shop).
We are lucky that SMC exists because without the crowd sourcing of tech support on this forum, many of these machines would be boat anchors (not suggesting anyone in particular, just a general comment).
I wonder what the $40K laser would cost if they stopped all their support and just let the users figure it out themselves.
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