DIY Simple Laser Support

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rfresh737
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DIY Simple Laser Support

Post by rfresh737 » Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:43 am

Does QCAD CAM support lasers in general?

If not, am I able to configure or otherwise create my own laser tools?

My laser is a Benbox DIY from China and has a 2.5 watt laser diode. It is a simple laser machine but can cut 3mm plywood in 6 passes and do engraving (burn the upper surface of wood to make outlines or text).

The controller board is an Ardunio Nano and uses Grbl in the firmware and takes in gcode files to process.

To set the laser power I use S0-255 where S255 is 100% power and S127.5 is 50%, etc.

Everything else is standard CNC gcode such as F800, M30, etc.

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Re: DIY Simple Laser Support

Post by andrew » Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:04 am

Thanks for your interest in QCAD/CAM.

QCAD/CAM can be configured using the script interface to output virtually any format.

http://www.qcad.org/en/qcad-cam-configuration

A basic G-Code configuration is included with QCAD/CAM and is typically used as a basis for new configuration (by deriving the new configuration from GCode as described above.
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