Laser Cutting Foam? Any advice/experience

[eightball]

Here's the scoop:
Thinking of organizing a bunch of non-festools in systainers.
Architect friend has a laser cutter he'll let me use.

Anyone have any experience with the scanning/layout for laser cutting foam?  Also any recommendations on the best foam to use?

From a little research it looks like the best approach is to cut through the foam and then back it with a contrasting color or plastic insert.  Does this make the Kaizen foam overkill since I won't be digging out individual layers?

So far a little googling has only revealed a "scan the tool, trace the outline, send to laser cutter".  I'm hoping someone can save me from the inevitable novice mistakes any maybe provide a little more detail than that.

Thanks in advance,

Anthony

 

[JSlovic]

I've got some background in this but not with foam
The biggest issue is depth of cut you focus a beam for a given thickness and I'd say and this is a guess your limited to about 3/4 inch
The other thing to consider is you're burning material and have to exhausted the smoke you can't let residue build up on the focus lens
Good luck