Advanced
The Advanced section of the Laser Cut panel has the following settings:
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Acceleration and Dynamics: These settings are used to control the velocity and acceleration of the laser when cutting the contour. Essentially, you are trading off between the speed of cutting, and the quality of cutting. Reduced dynamics will offer better cutting quality than Normal dynamics, for example.
| You can set up the default dynamics for a program. |
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Beam offset: The cutting path has to be offset from the desired trajectory by half the beam diameter. This setting controls how that is accomplished:
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By controller: The beam offset is computed by the NC controller on the machine based on the beam diameter specified by the HMI.
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By software: The beam offset is computed by Flux and output directly into the NC program.
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None: There is no beam offset used - the center of the beam lies exactly on the cutting path.
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Switch contour size
You can change the cutting condition for just a particular section of a laser cut by using the Switch Contour Size button. Clicking this puts the panel into a special mode:
Set up the cutting condition to switch to, and an offset from a corner (to provide a precise snap point), and move the mouse near a corner to switch to the selected condition. The image below shows how this switch operation is used twice to cut only one chamfer with a Small cutting condition:
