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Not really. I put the power on a variable control, so thicker lines (in the .svg line drawing) get more power. It sort-of-works – not so you can tell the difference between a 3pt line and a 4pt line, but definitely between a 1pt line and a 10pt line.

Different foams react differently (i.e. 8% power on white styrofoam makes slightly wider lines than 8% power on blue modelling foam) but I’m just working out the “upper power limit” for different materials, so line thicknesses are consistent across all of them. It’s going to be a lot of trial-and-error.

So for white styrofoam, I might say “power should be 0v to 6v” but for blue modelling foam, the range might be 0v to 8v or something- so when I say “4pt line width = 50% power” the line thickness will be the same for all materials. It’s all a bit hit-and-miss at the minute. But encouraging…….