Ernie Balch
10-01-2013, 4:10 PM
The laser pointer on my Rabbit laser always drove me crazy. It pointed down at a 45 degree angle toward the CO2 laser spot. It was never exactly at the right place and changed location depending on the substrate height. Finally I decided to fix it.
I took the angled laser mount off and flattened it out with a hammer. After reassembly the laser spot points straight down and is located 28 mm to the left of main lens.
To align to a substrate I create a box around the engraving image representing the substrate size and align to the lower left corner with the red laser. Of course I have to offset the origin in the Corel lasercut printer driver by 28 mm to the right so the origin matches the CO2 laser position.
I made a step by step how to PDF file with photos and screen shots, I can email it to anyone interested. Just PM me.
ernie
I took the angled laser mount off and flattened it out with a hammer. After reassembly the laser spot points straight down and is located 28 mm to the left of main lens.
To align to a substrate I create a box around the engraving image representing the substrate size and align to the lower left corner with the red laser. Of course I have to offset the origin in the Corel lasercut printer driver by 28 mm to the right so the origin matches the CO2 laser position.
I made a step by step how to PDF file with photos and screen shots, I can email it to anyone interested. Just PM me.
ernie