I cut a rosebud from my Mother's Christmas Day Rose drawing in Gimp, converted it to gray scale, and rescaled it down to be 1 1/8 by 1 3/8 inches. The exported png file was loaded into RDWorks. Several cycles of previewing in RDWorks and erasing in Gimp were performed to check for and further clean up random backgrounds specks and blemishes. A cut framing rectangle (slightly larger than the rosebud object) was added and both objects were snapped to the upper right corner before exporting to a g-code .rd file for the laser. Before exporting to rd, remember to select both objects.

parameters are rosebud: scan 250 mm/sec, laser freq 10 kHz, 0.035 interval and power min 11/max 25%

Frame box: cut 15 mm/sec min 50/max 50% power laser freq 125 kHz.

The rd file is only 2 Mb and simulation indicates a run time of under a minute.