Pen Settings > Edit Pens > Ramping Settings

The following dialog can be reached at Mark → Edit → Ramping. Ramping allows to smoothly increase or decrease the speed or the power of the pen at the beginning or the end of the marking. It is also possible to add marking vectors at the beginning or the end of a marking in order to slowly increase the amount of energy delivered to the sample object.

	If laser mode is IPG and the laser type 0 the power is changed by a manual latch sequence. This takes about 4 ms for each step. For power ramping the number of steps is therefore significantly reduced when using high marking speeds.

	Power Ramping and Speed Ramping is not compatible with the MultiHead functionality.

Ramping

Figure 128: Ramping Settings Dialog

Ramping General:

AutoLengthenStartRamp: Add marking vectors before the beginning of the actual marking.

AutoLengthenEndRamp: Add marking vectors behind the end of the actual marking.

This function has to be used together with Power Ramping or Speed Ramping.

Power Ramping:

Start: Enable power ramping at the beginning of the marking. This smoothly increases the power of the laser from a given start value Start power to 100 % within the Length in mm. The checkbox Activate must be checked to enable this functionality.

End: Enable power ramping at the end of the marking. This smoothly decreases the power of the laser from 100 % to a given End power within the Length in mm. The checkbox Activate must be checked to enable this functionality.

This function can be used without any other Ramping or together with Ramping General/Speed Ramping.

Speed Ramping:

Start: Enable speed ramping at the beginning of the marking. This smoothly increases the speed of the scanner from a given start value Start speed to 100 % within the Length in mm. The checkbox Activate must be checked to enable this functionality.

End: Enable speed ramping at the end of the marking. This smoothly decreases the speed of the scanner from 100 % to a given End speed within the Length in mm. The checkbox Activate must be checked to enable this functionality.

This function can be used without any other Ramping or together with Ramping General/Power Ramping. Speed changes with increasing marking length.