I was wondering if Laser web did kerf compensation?

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I was wondering if Laser web did kerf compensation?

I was cutting some parts that required hole size to be exact for tapping and they came out much bigger than I wanted, which I assume is do the large kerf on my K40.

It may be that I need to upgrade the head with a better lens, but I was wondering if laserweb had kerf compensation and if so how do you tell it which side of the line to put the kerf?

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your Kerf should be close to 0.15 mm depending on your focus point

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I don’t think LW3 does but coming in LW4 (+Peter van der Walt ?).
I am using SketchUCam to get that function before I convert to .dxf and upload to LW3.

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Thanks Peter!

I will try to use laserWeb4 to generate some gcode and test.

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Works Great - nice job folks !!!

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Done - Make it a Kooteney Gold !!!

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Pretty large; Blacksburg is a collage town.
https://www.vintagecellar.com/