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Arbeitsbereich 40“ x 28” (1016 x 711 mm)
Leistung: 60 Watt
Bedienungsanleitung
There are some basic and very important rules that you have to follow, before you start working with the Epilog Fusion Laser Cutter:
Place the material at a right angle. Moreover the area of the material being engraved or cut needs to be relatively flat.
The Red Dot Pointer is the visual indicator of the laser location. This will be the new Home Position.
In order to engrave or cut a crisp, clean image, your material must be the correct distance from the bottom of the focus lens. To determine the correct distance use the “V” shaped manual focus gauge.
Place the manual focus gauge on the carriage. Then select the Focus on the control panel.
- Go to the Focus function on the Control Panel.
In the picture above the bottom of the focus gauge just touches the surface of the material.
Material | Thickness | Speed | Power | Frequency | Application |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acryl | 3mm | 8 | 100 | 100 | Cut |
Acryl | 5mm | 2 | 100 | 100 | Cut |
Acryl | 6mm | 2 | 100 | 100 | Cut |
Acryl | 9,5mm | 3* | 100 | 100 | Cut with SpeedComp* |
Karton | 1,5mm | 400 | 50 | 20 | Cut |
Karton | 1,5mm | 100 | 98 | 20 | Cut |
Leder | 3mm | 35 | 100 | 50 | Cut |
Holz | 3mm | 8 | 100 | 20 | Cut |
Holz | 6mm | 5 | 100 | 10 | Cut |
Holz | 9,5mm | 1 | 100 | 10 | Cut withSpeedComp* |
Material | Speed | Power | DPI/Freq. | Einsatz |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wood | 60 | 100 | 300 | Gravierung |
Acryl | 90 | 45 | 300 | Foto Gravierung |
Acryl | 90 | 65 | 300 | Vector Gravierung |
Acryl | 90 | 60 | 600 | Vector Gravierung HiRes |
Anodisiertes Aluminium | 90 | 40 | 400 | Foto Gravierung |
Anodisiertes Aluminium | 90 | 35 | 600 | Foto Gravierung |
Anodisiertes Aluminium | 90 | 45 | 600 | Vector Gravierung |
Kork | 90 | 35 | 300 | Vector/Foto Gravierung |
Glas | 90 | 35 | 300 | Vector/Foto Gravierung |
Leder | 90 | 25 | 300 | Foto Gravierung |
Leder | 90 | 30 | 600 | Vector Gravierung |
Go to File Open.. to import your Project in Rhino.
After importing the file, explode the objects and then connect the open curves to a closed curve.
Then check in the Properties tab whether there are only closed curves.
The laser determines which lines to engrave or cut based on the width (stroke) of each line. Set any cut lines to a print width of 0.001 or hairline.
To start printing, press the Ctrl + P keys or go to File → Print.
First adjust the viewport (point 3 above) by dragging it to its position. The starting point of the laser is always the upper left corner. To avoid wasting a lot of material, try to leave less free space around the objects.
After setting up everything you can start your job.
Change the layer for the shapes that are inside the object to separate them from the outer cut.
Select the outline of the object to change the layer to outer cut.
To get started press the Ctrl + P Keys and go into properties.
After setting up everything you can start your job.
First of all drag and drop your picture into the Rhino working area to create a picture frame.
Now change the color of the default layer to white, to avoid getting the frame engraved as well.
Osnaps allow you to snap onto a specific object location when you are picking a point. Select it to create a fitting rectangle to cut out the image.
To get started press the Ctrl + P Keys and go into properties.
After setting up everything you can start your job.
Create a Text object with Curves.
Next, search for Hatch on the command line. Select your Text and a solid pattern.
You can also use hatch to color shapes.
It is only important that you remove the curves, otherwise the laser might cut them when they are set to hairline.
To get started press the Ctrl + P Keys and go into properties.
After setting up everything you can start your job.
Using the Epilog Fusion laser cutter through the Epilog Job Manager brings to the user several advantages and automatize many steps in using the machine. In comparison of using the Epilog Fusion as a printer device in graphic design software, the Epilog Job Manager allows to the user to:
To start the Epilog Job Manager, just double-click on the icon in the Desktop:
Wether the job manager has been started or not, the driver of the Epilog Fusion keeps tracks of the job being sent from any other software. It is, anyway, not possible to create a job directly into the job manager. It is therefore needed to have your own design sent as a print job to the Epilog Fusion, before it appears in the job manager.
When printing something it is not necessary to change setting such as power, speed or frequency, because they will be set automatically into the Epilog Job Manager.
What is really important is to: Always set the resolution to 1200DPI before sending the job!
When opening the job manager, the following window will appear. To access the job that was sent to print just before, click on jobs.
All the jobs sent by clicking on print in any other software, automatically go into the uncategorized folder. After clicking on Jobs, by default the list of uncategorized jobs will appear
By double clicking on the job itself, it is possible to access to the job information window, where settings and properties of the job can be changed. For example it is possible to change the job name.
All the jobs sent by clicking on print in any other software, automatically go into the uncategorized folder. After clicking on Jobs, by default the list of uncategorized jobs will appear
The job can be organized in folders and sub-folders. It is possible to set them by using their respective Drop-down lists. When a different folder is selected, the job will be automatically moved inside it.
The laser settings (speed, power, autofocus etc), can be changed for each job by manually changing the values, or it is possible to automatically set all of them by selecting a material from the material library. To open the material library and apply the settings click on the following button.
This will open the material library window. Like the jobs, the material library is organized in material folders, which contain then different materials sub-kinds and thicknesses. It is possible to change the material category by cliking on the left buttons.
Once the proper material category has been selected, it is possible to directly select the specific material just by double-clicking on it.
Once the material has been selected, the proper settings are automatically applied into the Job Information window (as shown in the next image). To be noted that also the material thickness is taken into account, meaning the Epilog Fusion will automatically adjust the focus. It is therefore not needed anymore to adjust the focus manually. To work with the colour mapping, settings can be changed by clicking the colours tab into the job information window. It is possible to check the job preview by clicking on the preview button.
The preview window, shows the operation the laser cutter will do and the precise positioning of the job. Placing the stock into the shown position, will make sure the Epilog Fusion can work with it, and avoids the user to manually set the jog position. It is also possible to filter the view by operation kind /Raster/Vector/Combined).
Once all the settings and the job properties have been applied/changed, it is possible to save the job for future reuse.
After saving the job, to send it the job to the Epilog Fusion, just click on the print button.
To manage the jobs, it is possible to change their appearance order clicking the following button.
Or to delete them from a specific folder clicking the delete button.
Dear Mr. Ingrassia,
if you experience fluctuations in laser power output after a certain time of operating the machine at near maximum or maximum power, that are not related to output position on the table, then this is usually the first sign of your laser tube beginning to fail. For example, if you experience material not being cut in a certain position on the table, pausing the machine for ~5-10 minutes, and then resuming the process with the material then being cut completely, this points to t failing laser tube. If the aforementioned case would yield not completely cut material even after a pause in the cutting process, something with table or beam alignment might be an issue.
There might be something you can try though. 30 minutes continuous power output at full power is not bad. If the tube is failing, you have detected it at a very early stage. Maybe you are simply having an issue with cooling of the laser tube body. Please make sure, that the filter located at the back of the machine is free from dust and lint, which might result in obstruction and reduced air flow. Epilog laser machines have a control board that allows to switch either to full cooling fan speed at all times and reduced cooling fan speed based on tube output power (not on actual tube temperature). Maybe this controller is not functioning correctly. Please try to switch the fan controller to full speed first. This provides additional cooling at all times, which inherently is a good thing. The only downside is more noise from the machine.
Depending on the build year of your machine, the controller is located somewhere in the lower compartment on the back side of the machine, either near the center or on the left side. Remove the screws holding the lower back panel in place and remove the panel, with the mains power disconnected. The laser tube is located at the right side of the machine, with power and signal cable going into the back of the tube. Follow the grey signal cable from the laser tube, that has RJ45-type plugs on both ends. This cable goes to a smallish board with four connectors in it, two being grey RJ45. On this board there is a small black sliding switch that allows you to change the operating mode of the fans (silent/full speed). If I have not previously advised you to change this to full speed, please switch the controller to full speed and check whether this has a positive impact on continuous laser output power.
The laser tube still might be an issue, although increased cooling might mitigate the problem for another while. According to our machine log, the tube seems to still be the original one the machine was shipped out with in mid 2014. The average life expectancy of laser tubes without impairment of functionality in any way is around 7-8 years. The current age is 6.5 years, so problems might be expected now or in the near future.
Please let me know, if changing the fan mode helped you with the issues.