![]() ![]() See it in actionĪs is typical with all engravers and cutters, there are some consumables with this device. beamo can also engrave on anodized aluminum and stainless steel, but the power levels are not enough to cut these materials. The maximum cutting thickness is 5mm in 2 passes (varies by materials). TLDR:īeamo can cut and engrave wood, leather, cardboard, acrylic, rubber, food, and more. For a list of materials that you can and can’t use, check out the list on the Flux3dp website. ![]() I didn’t have any glass or anodized metals to try, but you can use them too. You can see a few samples above on wood, leather, and cardboard. Or how about buying leather scraps and using them to make custom bookmarks, or use beamo to engrave personalized leather notebook covers.Ĭheck out my instructions for making a Traveler’s style notebook cover. Why would you want to engrave or cut cardboard? Imagine using beamo to quickly cut a bunch of tags for gifts by recycling cardboard boxes. Here we see my name cut into a standard piece of cardboard. I really like the camera feature that lets you see exactly where the artwork is going to be located on the material before you start the engraving or cutting process. Luckily there is some tape included with the beamo unit that can be used to tape down the material. I tested beamo using lightweight wood, paper, cardboard, and leather.Īll the materials that I tested were easy to use except maybe for the leather because it had been rolled up and didn’t want to lay flat on the honeycombed workspace inside the unit. While beamo is performing the engraving and cutting functions it has a pretty loud fan noise which I would say is comparable to running a vacuum cleaner. ![]() So you can have one layer as the actual artwork and another layer can be used to cut it out. The app will also allow for multiple layers. There is a list of parameters to choose from for the material that you’re cutting or engraving. When you have the picture where you want it, you click EXPORT and the app will tell you how long it will take to engrave it with the chosen settings. You can also resize it by dragging the handles. Importing the JPG is simple and then you can use the camera icon to see a live view of the material (I used the included piece of wood) and position the artwork by dragging and dropping it. But it’s easier if you just grab a JPG like I did with my site’s logo. To do that, you need some artwork although you can actually use the beamo Studio app to draw something. You then use the app to line up the square so it’s perfectly within the lines and you’re ready to start cutting and engraving. The app will then draw/burn a tic tac toe shaped grid on the paper. An optional add-on auto-focus attachment will be available at some point that will make this step no longer needed.Īfter the height of the focus lens is adjusted, the calibration can be started. Then you tighten the nut and rotate the clear plastic bar out of the way again. Then you loosen the nut on the focus lens and lower it until the clear bar is touching the material below it. This is done by rotating the clear plastic bar to the right of the focus lens. The next step which you have to do every time you change materials is to adjust the focus. The first thing you have to do is calibrate the beamo unit by placing a piece of paper on the workspace below the focus lens. You’ll be greeted with a grid with drawing tools on the sides. Then all you have to do is use the touch display to connect the unit to your local WiFi and then launch the beamo Studio app which I did on my MacBook. ![]()
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