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Drill Settings
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The following page can be found at Mark → Edit... → Drill. If enabled, single points are scanned with drill mode.

YAG laser Pen → Drill settings:

YAGDrill

Figure 123: Drill Settings for YAG Laser

Duration: Time for scanning one point.

Number pulses: Displays the resulting number of pulses.

Frequency: Frequency of the laser pulses.

Pulse width: Q-Switch length in [µs].

Jump delay: Delay between the jump to the point and start marking this point.

Jump speed: Speed to jump to a point.

Use Geometry: If enabled, clicking on Edit opens a dialog where a simple geometry can be created. This geometry will be marked at every point instead of just marking a single point. When drill and drill geometry are used together, the points in the job are marked with the defined geometry, whereas the points inside the drill geometry are drilled.

Mark Lines as Dots: If activated, lines will be marked as dots that lie on a defined Grid Raster. The amount of points depends on the defined Grid Raster values. If those are chosen smaller, a higher amount of points is marked. The Mark Lines as Dots feature does not work together with Perforation.

Point Power Map: Load a bitmap in the background that defines the gray value for each pixel. Then if a dot is defined somewhere in the working area the power for the marking will be set by the Point Power bitmap. If Preview is grayed out, there is no bitmap assigned and the power will be taken from the pen power setting. If a bitmap was loaded with Load the bitmap is scaled to fit inside the field size. The bitmap power values are affected by the Power Map also.

Use Power Ramp for Points: A power ramp can be defined which is used for the drilling of single points.To define the power ramp, the "Enable" checkbox needs to be activated. Then, click on the "Edit" button to open the Drill Ramp dailog for specification of the power ramp.

CO2 laser Pen → Drill settings:

MiscSettingsPens_CO2

Figure 124: Drill Settings for CO2 Laser

Only the specific parameters are explained below, the others can be looked up above at YAG.

Laser 1: Pulse length of laser signal1 in [µs].

Laser 2: Pulse length of laser signal2 in [µs].

EnableCO2Power: If enabled Frequency, Laser1 and Laser2 are disabled, the values of these parameters are taken from the main page of pen settings instead.

 

note

The jump speed is saved in the unit bit/s. This means that the displayed value in mm/s will change if the Field Size is changed.