I feel like you’d also run into problems timing it. You want the laser on for long enough to acually get through the material.
Lasercad allows you to push the “lase” button and it just fires the laser. If the material was positioned well, I bet that would work to create a minimal hole.
Depends on the material, manual lase is pretty low powered but might work for something really thin. Otherwise I’d just make a really small vector circle and run it at a very slow speed.
I noticed in Lasercad, there are a few options for each “layer”. Burn, cut and … hole
I’ll play around with the hole feature when I have some time free again. I also figured out how to make “points” in inkspace