### Cardboard <small> - Pair 2 - Marco and Adai</small>
Adai and Marco
The first group made a custom template for the team so we decided to get the same one.
After we had the template on Rhino was the moment to get to the parameters for the laser. Checking the cheat sheet that is on the laser room we started the first cut.
This first cut was a small square with another one smaller inside that we hatched to try both parameters, Raster and Cut. In the first try we saw that the small square was cut perfectly but the hatch was very low, and we could not see it, so we made some more cuts and rasters increasing the power in 5 points each time. Once we had the raster on the desired strength we started the final cut.
The first group had already changed the colors of the lines to make firs the raster, second the engraving of some lines, third the inside cuts and at the end the outline, so we double-checked that every thing was ok, we calibrated te focus of the machine, checked that the fumes extractor was on, and we started the cut.
## The settings for Cardboard
| Operation | Power | Speed | Frequency |
|---------------|---|----|-----------|
| Cutting | 40 | 1 | 1,000 |
| Engraving | 40 | 2 | 1,000 |
| Raster (low) | 70 | 80| 1,000 |
| Raster (med) | 80| 80| 1,000 |
| Raster (high) | 90| 80| 1,000 |
We did not test the engraving that should be only marcking the surface of the material and we thought that if we just double the speed of the cut would marck the surface but not cut it, we were wrong... The machine end up cutting the material all the way trough. Another ting that was not as expected was that some letters that were in red (the color we set to engrave) the machine understood that it was a raster because it did not had any vectors, was like a hatch. But everything end up very well!
