Photograph the edge
One phone shot of the cut face. No lighting rig, no macro lens — the workshop photo you would send a colleague.
Dross that will not come off, a rough lower edge, a part that stays welded into the sheet — 47 documented defect modes with the cause and the exact parameter to change. Works on any fiber laser, whoever built it.
You do not need to know why it happens. Photograph the edge and the assistant names the cause and the one parameter to change.
One phone shot of the cut face. No lighting rig, no macro lens — the workshop photo you would send a colleague.
Material, thickness, assist gas. If you do not know the power, the assistant asks — it needs it, because 3 kW and 12 kW fail differently.
Not «check everything» — a ranked list of likely causes with the specific correction: gas pressure by 0.1 bar, speed by 5%, focus by 0.5 mm.
Every entry carries a reference photo, the cause and a step-by-step correction — scoped by gas, material and thickness, because the same dross means different things on 2 mm and on 20 mm.
1,500+ validated cutting and piercing parameters by material, thickness, assist gas and source power — carbon steel, stainless, aluminium, brass, copper, galvanised, from 1 kW to 20 kW. Separate tables for engraving, welding and cleaning.
Free on every plan, including the free one.
Type the code or the fragment of text on the screen and get the cause, the fix and the part to check. Controller alarms, height sensor faults, chiller codes — with the workshop answer next to the manual quote.
Also free, all controllers.
Five photo diagnoses a month on the free tier — enough to fix a bad shift. Parameter tables and error codes are free without limits.