So, are there any downsides to the Sculpfun S9 Laser Engraving Machine? Well, if there's anything minor to say, it’s only that if this were aimed more specifically at beginners, it would have been useful to have more information about the specifics of working with certain materials. Either way, the machine can handle cutting acrylic sheets very quickly, as long as you’re dealing with a dark enough color or one that a blue laser won’t have trouble with. In the guide, it gives suggested settings to use on acrylic, but for some reason on the safe-materials sheet, acrylic and other forms of plastic are simply crossed out, likely because they give off toxic fumes when burnt. If you’re planning on using this in a domestic home rather than in a private workshop or something, then you’ll need to buy extra goggles for anyone who is planning on walking in.Īnother material we tried out was 3mm acrylic. On that note, bear in mind that you, and anyone else in the room, need to be wearing the included safety goggles during the use of the device. It creates a lovely contrast between the image and the background, and it does it pretty damn quickly, so even on larger designs, it doesn’t take all day to get things done. Slate, in particular, is an excellent medium for this engraver. Besides, the resulting tower is pretty cute, and can at least be used for rolling characters with tiny D6s.Įxperimenting with other materials also produced stellar results. Of course, we did end up with a very small dice tower as a result, but that’s a limitation of the material more than anything else. Not only was this achieved very easily, but it was also possible to size the tower down to the correct size for our sheets of wood.
We also tried out some more complex ideas, such as cutting a wooden dice tower design out of a piece of wood for us to glue together. One of the first things we tried was engraving some images onto blank coasters, and after a little experimentation, it was easy to get multiple different designs done without many errors. There is some fiddling when it comes to getting quality settings quite right for the image and material you’re using, but a lot of these results speak for themselves.
With the speed and power settings from the manual, you simply enter them into the correct fields and hit start.
The software allows you to simply take images and use various tools to convert them into usable engraving or cutting patterns.
If you’re using the appropriate settings, you can easily get incredibly good results even on your first few uses of the device.
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