Stuart Hampton
08-02-2015, 7:44 PM
After lurking for almost two years, I have taken the plunge and bought an x700, 60W equivalent machine from ebay.
Thanks to the members here, I have been able to setup and get the laser firing without a hitch. I have also got the focus sorted out.
I have moved onto calibration for cutting and etching by using a 10 x 10 grid sorted by vector colour (see attachment). As a result I have speed from 5 to 50mm/s and power from 10 - 100% power.
I am using Corel 12 with the RDWorks 8.0.27 plugin (from the provided CD), with a USB thumb drive to transfer the cutting files to the laser.
Initial cutting of the grids worked well as I did them by speed groups, in case of fire e.g. 10mm/s group by power, from low to high in case the higher powers started burning my MDF.
The problem struck when I tried cutting the whole grid out.
The cutting of the grid was progressing well, when I got to the 48th different coloured box of the grid. At this point the laser stopped. No axis movement, no laser.
I reset the system and the motors and laser were functioning fine. So I re-ran the job.
Again, at the 48th coloured box, all stop.
I have checked the documentation and there is nothing I can find to explain it.
I hope it is as simple as the laser cutter only handling 47 different colours, but hope someone here has a fix for this.
Cheers,
Stuart
Thanks to the members here, I have been able to setup and get the laser firing without a hitch. I have also got the focus sorted out.
I have moved onto calibration for cutting and etching by using a 10 x 10 grid sorted by vector colour (see attachment). As a result I have speed from 5 to 50mm/s and power from 10 - 100% power.
I am using Corel 12 with the RDWorks 8.0.27 plugin (from the provided CD), with a USB thumb drive to transfer the cutting files to the laser.
Initial cutting of the grids worked well as I did them by speed groups, in case of fire e.g. 10mm/s group by power, from low to high in case the higher powers started burning my MDF.
The problem struck when I tried cutting the whole grid out.
The cutting of the grid was progressing well, when I got to the 48th different coloured box of the grid. At this point the laser stopped. No axis movement, no laser.
I reset the system and the motors and laser were functioning fine. So I re-ran the job.
Again, at the 48th coloured box, all stop.
I have checked the documentation and there is nothing I can find to explain it.
I hope it is as simple as the laser cutter only handling 47 different colours, but hope someone here has a fix for this.
Cheers,
Stuart