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# Laser Material Library

A place to document known-good powers/speeds for various materials.
### Lightburn Materials Library
The project design/driving software used in TheLab for driving some but not all laser machines is Lightburn. The Lightburn installs within TheLab have recently been loaded with a Materials Library provided by a member. The settings found within the libraries should be considered starting values rather than values that will give the best results.

Details for accessing/using the materials settings can be found within the Lightburn documentation at:

* [[https://docs.lightburnsoftware.com/latest/Reference/MaterialLibrary/|Lightburn Materials Library]]

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### Glowforge Materials settings

The Glowforge laser machine is driven by a cloud based product, not Lightburn. Thus the settings are not loaded into Lightburn unless provided by a local user.

The following settings link can be used as starting values for the Glowforge laser. Values may need to be adjusted based on the wattage of the local machine vs that used to create the library of settings.

These setting are courtesy of Smokey Hills Design, a laser supplies company.

The Company [[https://smokeyhilldesigns.com/| Smokey Hills Designs]]

The settings [[https://smokeyhilldesigns.com/pages/cut-settings|Glowforge Material Settings]]

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## Custom/Local Setting
The following settings are those found to be useful by the local members on the local machines. Members are encouraged to add to this list or create a separate file, especially for those items not included in an existing material setting list/library:

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### Trogdor CO2 laser settings
Possible Examples only, these have not been verified:

^            Engraving                                  ^^^^
^ Material     ^ Speed (mm/sec) ^ Min Power % ^ Max Power % ^
| Cardboard    |   250         |   5%        | 10%         |
| Plywood 1/4" |   250         |   10%       | 15%         |

^            Cutting                                    ^^^^
^ Material     ^ Speed (mm/sec) ^ Min Power % ^ Max Power % ^
| Cardboard    |   80          |   15%       | 20%         |
| Plywood 1/4" |   10          |   60%       | 65%         |

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### Glowforge 40 watt laser settings
#### Plywood
#### 3mm
-  TODO mm/min, TODO % power
#### 5mm
-  TODO mm/min, TODO % power