Great video thanks! These laser values for speed/power are so helpful when learning.

Great, detailed explanation. Thank you so much! I had forgotten that Lightburn has this build in now.

Yes I have followed your instructions and found them to teach me a way to learn. I only have a D1 pro 20 watt and you seem to have a wide selection of videos on this Laser.😀

This was an incredible helpful video with info that's really easy to pick up. Fantastic work!

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Good job.

Just got a Longer Ray5 10w laser. This is one of the best videos on doing a materials test I have seen.

Thank you! Very clear. I'm off to run the test right now.

Great video. Thanks for making it easy so we could follow every steep. Really appreciated.

Thanks! This video was more useful and clear to me than the official video 😅

OUTSTANDING. I'm new to Lightburn and didn't even know this Materials Test Generator was part of the tools tab. This will help me so much and your presentation was spot on for a newbie like me. I appreciate your time and effort in producing the video.

I am new to lasers and Lightburn and this video has been one of the most helpful ones as I get started!

Steve awesome video, you really clarified the material test process. Thanks again

Wow.. I feels stupid now. I was creating these material test myself. This would have saved me so much time! Excellent share.

Thank you @Vintauri I really appreciate the time you take explaining everything. I'm just bought a xtool d1 pro, Im hoping to do my photography into a something new. I wish I could understand it quicker but I'm learning thanks to you.

Just came across your video. New to the world, and new to Lightburn. Thanks for the great, easy to understand tutorials

Extremely useful, well presented and much appreciated. Thank you.

Great discussion/demonstration/video production…subscribed

Thanks Dude! I am fairly new to LightBurn and am still finding interesting tools and this was EXTREMELY helpful. Thanks for putting it together for us. Nice job on the video.

Awesome video! I am also brand new to lightburn and laser diode cutters. I didn't know that I could run a materials test generator from the tools tab. Thanks for breaking this down so I can understand what the materials test is used for and how to interpret it! I have been coming back to your channel quite a bit and learning a lot from your content!

Just bought a laser! I’ve been using a CNC for almost a year now. I’m really looking forward to opening the world of laser!! Thanks for the video! Awesome tips

I just purchased a Jinsoku LC-60A 5.5W Laser Engraver Cutter with Air Assist System. This video really help me to understand how to use Lightburn to set up my material parameters and understand the limitations of my laser. Thank you so much

Excellent. Exactly the thing I was looking for. Thanks a bunch.

Why did it take me so long to find this video! This was by far the best video I have seen on this! Definitely earned my subscription..

Vin, Great video, I'm new to lightburn and laser engraving. This sheds light (no pun intended) to what I have been doing. Most cases I have been at 100% and just changing speeds. Keeping a record of materials cut or engraved in a notebook. This will give me starting data. Your definitely right about no 2 materials or lasers cut the same. Keep it up 👍

Very helpful. Thanks!

Great video. Very straight forward in common sense terms anyone can understand.

Thank you so much! I have just been doing my first burns and the text would burn perfectly but everything after that was way off. Turns out I was running the laser too fast. Got my first absolutely perfect spot on burn thanks some of the tips in this Video. Tomorrow I'll tweak a bit more to find the upper limit of speeds. It's scary just how smoothly learning this all is going- I'm knocking out one issue/skill after another- the 15 Years of Game Dev helps alot! I'm just waiting for a shoe to drop- thought maybe this was it but it was an easy fix- surely I'll run into some big challenge soon but I can't complain about how well learning this new skill has gone so far. Great vid- subbed/liked :D

Thanks for the education!

I'm new to lightburn it was very informative. Thanks

very good video, i bookmark this video so i can try it on my laser next month. thank you again for another grate and helpful video.

Thanks for sharing - super helpful!

Ive been doing this wrong .I now have more testing to do. Great video

Greetings from Christchurch, New Zealand..... Thanks for a Super Well Presented and Informative vidclip ..... Much Appreciated .... Best to You and Yours from ChCh, NZ

Useful, thanks! 👍

Thanks, just starting lot to absorb

Very good video, Thank you!

Thank you, Im completely new to laser except my basic attempts at diode engraving.. been struggling to find something that can help me get a photo done but I think your vid has lifted my hopes the most 🤞🍀👍💙

aye man this video answered a lot of my questions teach and learning all the aspects of the laser and software can be tricky but you did great job. I'm new to engraving business I grabbed a nice 80w co2 starting off but I'm getting hang of it I'm more worried about learning before I mess my laser up because light burn has a lot going on if you are new to the program compared to others they are very basic but light burn is where its at if all steps are learned and taught from someone with your skill and knowledge.

Just getting started with light burn and laser, I will be doing models airplanes for Matney Models, thanks for the vid

Very informative! I am new to the laser engraving world and I am really stoked about it. I am trying to learn as I go. I have an xTool D1 Pro 20w and I am not getting anywhere. Any and all help will help. Thanks again for your time.

very very helpful

Thankyou

Great Video and explanation. I have a question. How do you make the scale fit the material? I have an anodized aluminum dog tag that is 1in x 2in.

Great video, thanks! Could you clarify how to choose the best settings from the cut test grid? When several settings result in good cuts, should we prioritize the fastest speed that still offers a quality cut? Any tips on interpreting these results would be very helpful.

Hi, thanks for the video. Do you have any video that explains what the color on the bottom of light burn are for. Thanks

Son good think's 👍

Thank you for the video. I just purchased a laser cutter/engraver, so I just subscribed to your channel. Question, using Lightburn, can you do both the cutting test and the engraving test on the same piece of wood/material?

Excellent info video, just one thing do I alter the edit test material settings or leave as is

The basic idea sounds great and using a diode laser with its very low power and different wavelenght to the CO2 machine, that I see you have in the background, it should be easy to do grayscale engraving on organic materials. However, what this engraving matrix shows is exacty the opposite. If you take a blowlamp to a piece of wood, you can change the SURFACE colour from very light brown to almost black WITHOUT burning through the wood, just by varying the exposure time (speed of power over the surface). The problem I see here is that as you vary the power and speed you are changing the DEPTH of "burn" to get coloiur. The only way you are achieving almost black is to barbeque the wood with a deep CUT and producing lots of fumes.. That's why I look at this matrix and question its real value.. There is no criticism of your video, you have done great job of explaining how to program it and use the tool that Lightburn has provided. I underrstang how the PWM control system works for a diode laser in that there is no actual power control available, your laser is always delivering 10 watts whenever you switch it on. The only way you can control the burn is by changing the exposure time via the PWM duty cycle. . I look at the blowlamp example I used earlier as the goal for this matrix and question if power and speed are the correct parameters to be using for engraving. Maybe you can achieve that SURFACE colour change by fixing a %power and making the matrix by varying speed and line spacing? I can see that you will be able to select a set of parameters from this matrix to do proper 3D engraving rather than grayscale images. I would select a speed of 3000mm/min with a min power of 10% and a max power of 60% you will need to repeat the program at least 10 times (or more) but you should finish up with a nice 3D image.There are lots os special bitmap files available to experiment with. Just Googe images of "3D grayscale CNC bitmaps" This will set you off onto all sorts of side trails to 100's of images you can use. The ones you want are the weird looking waxy white images. Good luck

Great video thanks for the help, question fo you use air assist when engraving?

Thank you. I will be getting my bolt next month and scared but thrilled try my hands to playing the settings. Do you have any tips for doing material testing with Bolt? What should I consider. I'm super newbie to laser. Thank you.

Thanks for the great video Steve. My question is how does the speed and power setting in the "Edit Materials and Text" settings relate to the speed and power settings in the actual material test?

Im having such a hard time doing such a simple test like that. With the settings you provided I did two test one with your settings which everything came out really light. Then the other with factory settings but sopes max 900. I have the s30

Everytime I run material test ..change materials to fill..the SPD/power I set in there over rides my grid setup..

Hi there, thank you for this. Just a quick question after going in and setting these material cards, where do you save them to to load for different materials? or do they automatically save?

Do you have any idea how I can use a Chromebook with Lennox with a P7 atomstack

Can you run a test on a leatherette patch? 3inches wide by 2 inches tall? Seems small but…just curious

Would the setup you did in the video be good for the OLM 2 Pro 5 watt laser?

My Latitool F50 cuts/engraves seemingly random straight lines, perhaps about 5mm each when performing material tests.... What am I doing wrong?

Just bought a Ikier 24. This is my first laser Where would i start the settings? Probably should have gotten something else since it was my first laser i seems not to be a lot of information out there yet.

should i be trying to cut 5mm with my d1pro 10w in 1 pass? or using multiple passes. i recently started learning lightburn and since the speed and power settings are different from xcs its making it difficult to get nice clean perfect cuts.

In edit material setting when you click on the material settings button what should the speed be while cutting and engraving

Can one easily store those settings to the LightBurn Library?

How do you know when my laser is on its last leg? I am having a hard time cutting all the way thru. I have run many grids now to see if I could come up with a correct power and speed but it still does not cut all the way like it used to. I have a Adamstack A5 M50 and have been spending quite a lot of time on it to learn which makes me think that maybe it is wearing down. What do you think?

Hi, Thanks for the material test. Where does one set the material thickness for this test? Another question I have, is regarding the focal distance for my fixed focus laser. It was supplied with a 20mm setting piece. When setting the distance to the laser, do you set the spacer to the body of the laser or to the laser lens?

Great video. Everytime I run a preview of my material test with your settings, I get cut distance 2561 mm, rapid moves 4430, and total time estimated 1:27:29. What am I doing wrong for the time estimate to be so long? TIA

Do I just double the speeds for my 20W diode laser and keep everything else the same?

Hello Steve, I just discovered your KZfaq page and I found myself watching you videos. They are very educating and Im like wow I didn't know you can do that or wow will you look at that. I have a XTool D1 Pro 20 watt laser for about a year now I have been mostly following David (Clack Shack videos) He is very knowledgeable, however he moves to fast for me, I am there every Sunday watching you and Davids podcast. Can you tell me, if I had a question for you where would I sent it for you to receive? Roy A Bettano ( Roy's Custom Creations.)

Can you tell how to set this up for a 20w diode laser?

Hello. Thanks for your help. I was wondering, how do I set the Interval? I see yours is at .100 where mine is .04?

I can't seem to change the number of passes. I clicked save but it reverts back to "1".

Vintauri, Do you save these to your Material Settings so that you have them if you buy material from different suppliers?

Heya, i see you're still responding - im brand new at this but is it normal for a 10x10 sample test piece of plywood take over an hour for fill engraving or am i doing something wrong?

Great video, how do you set the interval? I saw yours was at .1 and mine is showing.004

What type of laser are you using to have a max speed of 9000 mm/m? I have a Fox Alien Masuter Pro with an 80w Laser Tree laser. The Masuter Pro is only rated at a max of 2200 mm/m, Not sure if I should be calculating it differently running a laser module instead of a router boring through wood, Nice video.

I just recently got an Ortur laser master 3. I set up my materials test with the same parameters as your for the cut. It only took mine 1 min and 8 seconds and nothing was cut. What did I do wrong?

Hey, I can't continue anymore, I can't save it because there is no save to g-code anywhere, I can only start it with my computer on my lazer cutter, but I don't know how that works with the cable?

I just got my Sculpfun S30 and used the test mode but when it finished the print everything was backwords. I can hold it to a mirror every thing looks great. Need help on this.

It's useful but I'll note that at the faster speeds set, for small test squares, the laser head never reaches full speed so the speed vs power is not accurate. I recently got a 65 wattCO2 laser and it's around 50 times faster than my Ortur LM3

Hi, Just maybe a silly question. How do you differentiate between when you're just burning a line and when you want the laser to actually cut through the material? There are some projects when you will burn an image followed by cutting it out.

When i try this with my sculpfun s9 it does not show the letters on the side. (It goes really fast)Any idea?

So one thing I noticed that nobody covers and I have asked in multiple places and never get a straight answer. How do the power and speed settings under Material Settings effect the test? You enter your minimum and max power and speed in the original Material Test window that opens, so clicking on the Material Settings tab and changing power and speed accomplishes exactly what within the test?

Hi Steve, you lost me in the 1st couple minutes, I was following along step by step but, how did you change the random speeds to increase by 25? Thanks

Ciao ho un problema... sto facendo il test ma in anteprima e poi nel materiale mi scrive lettere strane. Ho provato a chiuedere e riaprire Lightburn ma niente. Hai un'idea? Grazie Uso LM3

when i use plywood i get a lot of burn and a higher kerf. when i lower my power i need like 10 turns to cut true plywood. when i use MDF i do not have that problem. also with a lot of burn, it's hard to keep ure project clean. i got all black spots from the burn on my hands. I got a 10W creality. can u help me with this problem?

Where do you input the material thickness ?? did I miss it ??

if i have 33w what i should do

Why doesn’t my test show the numbers? Mine just did the squares but with no info?

My lightburn doesnt have this

This unfortunate didn’t work on my laser I have a atomstack but it’s only 5w

I copied everything and my test burn burned out all the squares. lol Not sure what happened.

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