Full Spectrum Laser MUSE TITAM, Руководство по эксплуатации

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Section VII. Operations
This section will guide you through using your Muse Titan laser cutter. To get started, it is important to
understand the meanings of “Vector Cutting” and “Raster Engraving” and their associated file types.
General Functions
Vector Cutting
The most common feature of a laser cutter. Vector cutting with a laser means “to cut a line or shape”. When
vector cutting, the laser follows the “vector lines” embedding in the vector image to cut out the design. The
laser starts at a designated location and follows the vector lines until the shape is cut out. This process is
highly accurate and requires no resolution adjustments because of the properties of a vector image.
Vector Images
In Vector Cut mode, the software receives information from the print stream and interprets it as a series of
paths for the laser head to follow. For the print stream to have vector information, the file being printed must be
a vector image. Vector images are more flexible than raster images. These images are created using
mathematical equations rather than pixel blocks. PDF’s work great as vector files and are easy to resize
without losing resolution. Company logos and branded graphics are usually vector images.
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