Agustin Cruz wrote: > Hi, > I discovered that EMC2 takes about 1ms to execute each line of Gcode > (this is the servo thread period). > Because of this, EMC2 is not fast enough to change the laser intensity > in a reasonable time. > This problem is old. Take a look at the following post (five months ago): > http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,20/func,view/catid,10/id,1176/lang,english/ > Not sure why you want to use EMC for this. In fact, they used to have laser wood burning machines at fairs, etc. that had no computer at all. These were basically just scanning back and forth in one direction while slowly creeping in the orthogonal direction, a photocell scans the original artwork and the laser is slaved to what the photocell sees.
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