Chinese lasers - they're here !!!

[Jiten Patel]

Sorry to hear that Rodne. My thoughts are with you. Chin up hey and as you said, she had a good run and at least she isnt suffering any more.

[Dee Gallo]

My sympathies, Rodne, there is never a good time to lose a loved one. But as Jit said, she is not suffering anymore, which is horrible to live with.

Peace, dee

[Dan Hintz]

I'm sure I speak for us all when I say you have our condolences, Rodney...

[Bruce Dorworth]

My sympathy Rodne, Like you said she is in a better place. At least you were able to spend a lot of good years with her. I will bother you about the laser at a later date after you are able to deal with your current situation.

Bruce

[Scott Shepherd]

I'm very sorry for your loss Rodney.

Steve

[Ken Shea]

Rodney,
First post, regrettable it is to offer my sympathies for your Mom's passing.

[Ian Franks]

My condolences Rodney, it is always hard when you lose a parent.

[George M. Perzel]

Rodne;
I'm sure I'm speaking for all of us here at SMC when I offer our sincere regrets and condolences on the passing of your Mom. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time.
Best Regards;
George and the Gang at SMC

[Hannu Rinne]

My condolences,

Hannu

[Greg Bednar]

My condolences Rodne.

[Rodne Gold]

Thanks all for the good wishes , It's actually a weight off our shoulders that my mom passed on, far easier to deal with this than to watch her deteriorate and suffer.

[Rangarajan Saravana kumar]

Very very sorry to hear the news, our heartfelt condolences

[Rodne Gold]

Once again , thanks for condolences ,life goes on.

In the interim we have got our new mainboards and LCD panels and have managed to configure our big machine with the correct parameters to use the hardware and software correctly , it was "sort of" relatively easy.

It appears that ANY machine that is similarily configured to ours , with steppers and a glass tube , can use this as a retrofit control system, EVERYTHINg is configureable in terms of the machines motion etc.

Nice way of doing things , the total cost of the mainboard and lcd panel would be in the $350-400 range , which is not a lot of money.

Understandably , I have not really had the time to mess around and we have a job cutting small items out of magnetic sheeting (we are doing a full colour domed fridge magnet job) so have just run that...

I have found a way to actually re-label the software and roll overs , not just work on the manual , to make things even more "understandable".
I am also looking at a DLL and EXE editor to perhaps improve further on the way things work , albeit I have very little know how in that dept-- another thing to learn...

I have been fiddling with the preview function and it is really great
It basically instantly works out the time the job will take , how much non firing movement there will be , how much firing movement there will be and so on. More importantly it can actually give you a real time (or anything from 0.1x speed to 10x speed) moving representation of the laser head motion and where and how and what power it will be firing , so essentially you can see what you will be getting without running the job. Very nice indeed!!!!
Heres a screenshot that shows the graphic to be engraved (the deeper the green colour , the higher the power level you have chosen is , so you can see if you are way out in your settings - perhaps you meant to have 2% power and you have set 72% , your graphic should be a VERY light green , not dark - and you can correct it),

When you start the simulation , it shows head movement without firing in yellow and when firing in red and it shows the exact path the machine takes whether it be scanning or vector cutting. It alos reports ion head position and power levels if it is varied.

[Dan Hintz]

If the programmers did it correctly, the button text should be in a resource file that you can edit... is that what you found? Or did you just pony up and edit the EXE...

[Rodne Gold]

Mainly in an .ini file but some stuff in the exe and Dll's , ini editing is easy , its the exe files and dll files that I'm a bit clueless on , will figure it out some way or another... not sure how much time I want to devote to all this.