Jeshua Lacock wrote: > Thanks everyone for all the great advice! > > I think for cutting I will use spindle speed, which will allow me to use the > Z for multiple passes if needed to cut through thick material (e.g. 3/4" > wood). > > It looks like Graster is the ticket for doing raster engraving. I like how > the XY movement is direct raster dimension commands (e.g. it moves from the > beginning side of the piece directly to the end side with just two positions) > and varies the laser intensity along the way. > > My main interest is to get cutting working, then engraving will be the > frosting on the cake. > For cutting, it seems the best way to go is to set power with the S command, and then calculate linear velocity with sqrt(X^2 + Y^2) and multiply that by the S value so it ramps up laser power as the XY axes accelerate. Maybe that isn't a problem. But, it wouldn't be very hard to do.
Using Z to control the laser for raster engraving might be a better solution when you are doing that type of work. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
