Next time I will use the honeycomb bed to prevent that You can see where it went into the oak below which also caused burning on the bottom. Vader below came out really well and I might have to do it again on a canvas to put on the wall. Depending on how thick the cardboard layers were some pictures came out better than others. Since wood is pretty expensive right now I did most of my tests on cardboard. Again, testing and experience will be required to truly fine tune the machine and the results. When I was in doubt about what settings to use I just referenced the materials database and it usually produced very satisfactory results. Both programs do allow you to add your own and Ortur includes an excel sheet with material data on the SD card but you will have to input them into the program of your choice manually. Since LaserGRBL and LightBurn are independent programs it would not be practical to maintain a materials database for every engraver made. One very helpful thing about the app is that a material database is preloaded for the Laser Master 3 and you can add your own settings to it as well. Overall performance was quite impressive and although this was the only laser engraver I have tried so far engraving simple designs up to very complicated pictures was no problem for the Laser Master 3 and I know I haven’t done enough testing to find optimized settings for every material but I was very impressed with the outcomes on most projects. You can see where on cardboard too high a power setting or too high resolution can create spots. I’ll take the hit on that mistake since I should have read through all the manuals before getting started.Ĭlose up of Peter. This would have been good to know before I repeatedly failed to update the firmware because I didn’t have the SD card inserted. In the 3D printing world the SD card is just used to transfer print files so I did not even think about inserting it.

I was not aware that the SD card acts as the memory repository for the machine. This would have saved me some time because the very last paragraph in one manual stated that if you do not insert an SD card into the slot you may experience issues. You will need to reference three different manuals to do this and I would recommend reading all of the manuals in full before you attempt to set it up. Unfortunately, updating the firmware and connecting the app was a journey in trial and error.

The Ortur Laser Master 3 laser engraver arrived sufficiently packaged and following the assembly manual included on the SD card was quick to assemble.

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