Hey folks! I’ve had several people ask about getting some suggested feeds and speeds for the Avid laser system.
Opt has published a lot of information and we have done a lot of testing too. I’ve taken all of that information and I’ve put it on this sheet here:
A lot of the feedrates I found were WAY to fast to practically run on most routers, so what I did was scale down the power and speed. For example if an engraving speed was 100% power at 800 IPM I scaled it down to 200IPM at 25% power.
In my experience on the materials I have cut this works really well. So in this chart you’ll see not only is there a decent list of materials, these are also set to very reasonable feeds and speeds. If you want to go faster you can scale the speed and power up accordingly.
So if you increase the feedrate by 25%, increase your power level the same amount.
I haven’t personally tested every material on this list, but the ones that I have tested against have generally worked just fine. At the very least this is an excellent starting point.
I’d be interested to hear what materials you all are cutting. If anyone wants to see something added to this list just post here and I can get it added for you.
This whole list is based on the 45 watt laser. For those that have a 15 watt laser you can scale down by 66% and you should be fine.