Material Settings Log Book for Laser Cutting and Engraving: 96 Filed Cards, 32 Speed-Power Grids Dated to a Machine Check

Description

Publisher	Independently published
Publication date	3 August 2026
Language	English
Print length	168 pages
Item weight	503 g
Dimensions	21.59 x 0.97 x 27.94 cm

A settings library for laser cutters and engravers, filed by material rather than by job.

Settings belong to a combination: this material, this measured thickness, this machine, this lens, this operation. That combination comes back on jobs that have nothing else in common, so each one gets its own numbered card and is found through the index at the back. An unknown material goes to a speed and power grid first, and the square that wins is promoted to a card.

96 SETTINGS CARDS

• Two cards per page, numbered 1 to 96
• Material, lot reference, supplier, nominal and measured thickness
• Machine, rated output, lens, focus offset, bed and support, masking
• Speed with its unit, power, passes, line interval, air assist
• Frequency and pulse width columns for fiber sources
• Kerf, grain direction, tone step, edge and surface result
• Space to rule off an old line and write the re-proved one under it

32 SPEED AND POWER GRIDS

• One full page per grid: seven speeds across, five powers down
• Material identity, setup and held-constant fields above the grid
• A read-out line for the winning square and the card it was promoted to
• A worked example, filled in, showing how to read the three regions

MACHINE REFERENCE CHECKS

• 24 dated checks against one unchanged reference piece and one unchanged file
• Cut square, scored line and three tone patches, read against a printed tone ladder
• Four machine profiles, an optics and lens register, service and consumables log
• Alignment and focus test records, including a ramp test method
• A re-prove queue that tells you which cards a changed machine has left behind

MATERIALS, STOCK AND COSTS

• 84-lot material register with three measured thickness readings per lot
• Receiving check, stock on hand, supplier consistency notes
• 60 run records, a machine time and consumable rate worksheet, pricing and quotes

REFERENCE PAGES

• Units and conversions: mm/min to mm/s, inches per second, lines per inch to interval
• Interval, resolution and tone, with a printed six-step tone ladder
• Focus, lens and kerf, with a drawn cross section of the beam and the cut face
• Four pages of material families: wood and board, plastics, leather and textile, stone glass and metal
• Two pages on the materials that must never go in a laser, and why
• Fire, fume and extraction; eyes, skin and the machine class

BOOK DETAILS

• 168 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches
• Undated, start on any day of any year
• Seven sections with printed fore-edge tabs
• Black and white interior on white paper
• No machine, program, coating or supplier names, every field is yours to fill in

Who this is for: hobbyists and small shops running a diode, CO2 or fiber machine who are tired of re-finding numbers they already worked out once.

A record of what you set and what happened. Not a certification, a test report or a substitute for your machine's manual.