Using Lightburn for CNC router to MARK aluminum
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2023-07-21
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Payson
2023-07-22Having a CNC machine, a fibre laser and a CO2 Laser, I can tell you the best way to mark aluminium is a fibre laser. It is possible to use a CNC machine with an engraving tool, but it will be much slower and the engraving will not be dark as with a fibre laser, so less legible. Also, whatever they say in advertising their machines, it is very difficult to work on aluminium with those CNC routers, as aluminium tends to ‘weld’ on the tip of the tool and for this reason it requires the use of coolant, which is seldom an option on the hobby machines. I did some work on aluminium using a spray bottle and making a mess, but if you plan to make any significant quantity it is the wrong tool. As for Lightburn being able to control a CNC machine, I am not sure, but since lasers has no Z axis, I doubt a software that is meant to control lasers outputs the command to move the Z axis (if anyone knows more it would be interesting to know for certain)
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