Since this topic involves materials, software, and hardware, please feel free to move it to a more appropriate category.
Here I go…
Maintaining two different cutting force scales for LOKLiK and other materials hasn’t been the most comfortable idea for us crafters. It’s been a real handicap to deal with. I’d love to see this undone one day so that we only have to manage a single scale — ideally, a standard one for all LOKLiK machines, since the iCraft already uses a slightly different scale.
In the meantime, I ended up calculating some conversion factors so I can convert both ways and make databases and annotations easier. This is also part of an attempt to use the iCraft material parameter list on the Crafter.
I’d like to share the conversion factors with you. I’ve put them in an Excel file with two sheets. This first one is a bidirectional converter: LOKLiK → Other / Other → LOKLiK.
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Here, you’ll find the different scales converted to one another, along with the function used to calculate the conversion.
The other sheet is a bidirectional conversion calculator for Crafter ↔ iCraft. In my opinion, this one is less reliable, as the main difference with iCraft seems to be that it performs better in more demanding cutting conditions. Based on my tests, I’ve identified three approximate conversion ranges:
- 1.07 for vinyls
- 1.5 for thin materials
- 1.2 for cardstocks and tougher materials
Please note that the annotations and formulas are in Spanish, but I think they’re easy to understand, as most of the terms come from our shared Latin roots.
