To be sure to cut through the cardboard, even if it is a thick one, I usually reduce this distance by 1 or 2 mm: this means that the laser is focused inside the cardboard thickness, or even at the bottom side.Įxecute the cut: don't forget to close the lid because the laser generates a lot of smoke during the cut.
Set the distance between the laser head and the cardboard. After saving it in a dedicated folder, I open it using Lightburn, select the shape of the box, and cut it with the laser cutter. The file looks like an xml file: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. PWM ( Pulse-width modulation): this is used to create folding lines (see below).Lightburn reads files that describe both the geometry of the object to be cut AND the cutting parameters, such as It is a short Python script that generates a file that is readable using the Litghtburn laser cutter control software. Surprinsingly, there are many that I could use, and I tried a few of them.īut I found them too complex for my needs, so I decided to make my own, very simplified but suited to my needs. I first looked online to see if there already exists any means of creating cutting templates for cardboard boxes.
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