Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Laser Marking- Carving Aesthetic Marking on Variety of Objects!

For making permanent, precise, aesthetic markings on objects, laser technology has long been the preferred tool. Laser leaves its mark everywhere, from the patterns on your kitchenware to the patterns that can be carved on your stained-glass windows. Instead of doing it by hand or other forms of radiation the reason why people choose laser marking over methods is:

1. Speed. At a fast pace, this laser marking technology works. Design can be reproduced in a matter of seconds, by programming a design into a laser machine. A hundred times that duration would be required by the same thing, by a human hand.

2. Repeatability. All security information like watermarks, logos, barcodes etc, and producing perfect replicas is of the greatest importance here. With levels of error too low for even the most sophisticated machines to detect, laser replication is as error-free as it gets. Also, even when it is not of such paramount importance, repeatability is often desirable - for example, while printing designs on apparel or accessories in bulk.

3. Precision. Than a few microns, a laser beam is no thicker. A thousandth of a millimeter is a micron. Therefore, for making fine markings on areas where precision is absolutely necessary, there is no better instrument than laser. This is why on things like medical implements, glassware, barcodes, backlit keyboards etc laser is used.

Till recently, however, to 2-dimensional surfaces, laser instruments have been limited. Its precision, repeatability, speed, and permanence, even this was not seen as too great as limitation, as the main advantages of laser. Now, to include 3D items, of the most complex shapes and varied sizes, the same precise performance has been diversified. This is where several features of 6-axis laser comes in. 6-axis laser technology combines:

# To move around the work piece, use of robots. Both the head and the material being worked on are moved around to generate optimal results as this allows a more constant path and distance of the laser.

# 3D scanning

# With vision system, marking lasers

# Even around complex and elaborate 3D shapes, software tools to allow image wrapping, such as vases, lanterns, gems and so on

Consequently, in industries that require etching, high-precision cutting, or marking on 3D surfaces, 6-axis lasers marking services have become highly popular. As most people know by now, as often as they are made by painting, markings these days are made by erasure. By having paint on the entire surface, backlit keyboards, for example, work, but to create the symbol on the key, a few layers of paint removed. For car dashboards etc, the same holds true.

In the aeronautical industry too, 6-axis lasers are being used, to remove the paint from magnesium castings. To remove metal plating from surfaces, another important use of this state-of-the-art, sophisticated, this marking technology is to generate beautiful, complex patterns.

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