Good Morning All,
We're having trouble running multiple passes (different settings) without having to manually change the material settings in between passes and clicking start. I would have to assume that there is a way to do this automatically. We're running a Trotec Speedy 300 with the Job Control software. Our graphics program is Adobe Illustrator. We have cutting boards that require two passes (one for the depth, and one way out of focus to get the burn/contrast). It wouldn't be a big deal if we were only doing a few boards, but we're in more of a production environment where we'll be running a lot of these. Our first thought was to layer two colors in Adobe Illustrator. We did that, and set the raster algorithm to "color" so it could read both layers. It ran the first pass, lowered the table to take it out of focus, and then the head moved as though it was running the second pass. During the second pass however, the laser was not firing. It just went through the motions. We called Trotec support, and they were unsure of why it would not be firing on the second pass. Any help would be much appreciated.