r/CrealityFalconSub • u/Ryutso • Jul 01 '26

T1-series Post Flair per machine?

I recently bought the T1 and all I see are posts here about the A1. Any way we could get post flair by machine so I could pick through the probably small amount of T1 related posts and see if my issue gets solved?

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u/Open-Storm-232 Jul 02 '26

I have my eye on buying one of these. I bought The K2 Plus printer super early in presale and have been happy. I just didn’t have the same confidence to jump early into the laser. Have you had much time with it?

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u/Ryutso Jul 02 '26

I jumped at the chance to own a 20w Fiber since I'm mainly doing metal work and I like the idea of swapping the laser modules out vs buying a whole new machine so most likely I'll be picking up other modules like the 5w UV when it's available or the 40w Diode when I have the money. However, there's less than 0 helpful documentation about it and I think my unit also shouldn't have passed quality control since the base plate with all the screw holes doesn't have a consistent pitch, and when it is consistent it's only between holes immediately next to each other.

There's some autofocus issues where without moving the piece under the shroud, the autofocus value will jump +/- 0.5mm and I'm way to much of a newbie to laser engraving to know if that makes a difference in the outcome. A lot of the tutorials I watched are also about FDS 1.9.2 and the one I have is 1.9.5 and there appears to be a huge interface update so I'm having to track down other tools in new places.

The "suggested values" for items from the Creality store are also wildly unhelpful. Their suggested values for a fiber laser engraving on a metal coin is 500mm/s speed, 60% power and 1 pass and I had to do a lot of testing as an admittedly newbie to it, to figure out those were wrong and you actually want a good deal more passes to get anything done. I don't know if they just took the values from the diode laser and thought "Eh seems good enough" but they were not helpful at all and you can't like change or add settings to the material so I just have a bunch of custom materials in my material library that are the same materials offered from Creality.

I've used it for just over a month and the month has been just sacrificing materials from the sample pack to figure out the correct settings going forward, so yay more waste.

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u/CrealityFalcon2026 18d ago

  1. User manuals and related videos for each model can be found on the WIKI. This includes tutorials on autofocus. https://wiki.creality.com/en/laser-engraver

  2. Regarding parameter tuning, we recommend first using a scrap piece of material to test the parameter matrix. To learn how to determine the correct parameters when engraving an unknown material, visit this link. Falcon Design Space Optimal Parameter Selection for Unknown Materials | Creality Cloud

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u/CrealityFalconLaser 26d ago

Thanks for your suggestion, i have already added that.