{"id":1368,"date":"2018-09-06T06:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2018-09-06T06:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:22:45","slug":"co2-laser-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"CO2 Laser Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I do most of my engraving using a center origin. Its so easy to line up on a cnc machine with a nice pointy bit. Not so easy on the CO2 laser. I always end up a little off&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/CO2Laser\/IMG_1334.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to 3D&nbsp; print&nbsp; a holder for a couple of line lasers to make that easier. I have a fixed focus but if I had a working Z axis (someday) I would have used dot lasers. Then you can align them so they converge at the focal point.&nbsp; That would require pivots for each laser but with line lasers its much simpler. I just tilted them 15 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/CO2Laser\/Screen%20Shot%202018-09-05%20at%2011.19.33%20AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>now its easy to get it centered every time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/CO2Laser\/IMG_1338.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>a couple of quick test items to be sure&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/CO2Laser\/IMG_1342.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do most of my engraving using a center origin. Its so easy to line up on a cnc machine with a nice pointy bit. Not so easy on the CO2 laser. I always end up a little off&#8230; I decided to 3D&nbsp; print&nbsp; a holder for a couple of line lasers to make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-cnc","category-k40-co2-laser","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}