I might be able to get decent results eventually, after much tweaking of speed, stepover, and power, but I was surprised and disappointed at my first attempts at burning a non-rasterized image. I’ve learned one thing so far: if you want easy, consistent burns, use the rasterized approach, which burns the image a line at a time, never burning the same spot twice, or spending too much time in one area. I could not get the inkscape plugin to work, and I haven’t been able to figure out how to set up the laser as a tool in ESTLCAM.Īny tips on how to get those tools working, or suggestions for other tools - preferably open source or at least not too expensive - would be greatly appreciated! So I guess I’m looking for a program with better toolpathing for lasers. The most efficient way would be for the machine to just turn on the laser and draw the square, rather than build it pixel by pixel on opposite sides of the burn area. This means that for most of the burning time, the machine is traveling and burning like this (each blip is burning a single dot, which is part of the square outline):īlip …travel to the other side of the picture … blip
If I create an image that is a simple outline of a square, and generate gcode of the image with LaserEtch, it will burn the image like a raster, line by line. I know that someone on here mentioned this before, but I can’t find the post, and I don’t think there was an answer, so I thought I’d ask again, since I’ve just run into the issue.
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