Rather than start a few threads I thought I'd condense these into one.
1) Anyone ever get a phantom pause while engraving? Not a big deal, just found it weird. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
2) What do you guys do when your machine loses connectivity (to job control) mid engraving? It's only happened to me once. I was surprised to see I couldn't resume where I left off, or maybe I can and I don't know how? I ended up setting the power to 1, engraving my way back to where I was, and then pausing and jacking my power back up. Was lucky to have thought of that because it was a seriously expensive piece of wood in the engraver at the time.
3) Am I the only one who uses the outline function and absolutely hates it? I can't get over how poorly that was coded. Full Spectrum has it right, once you click the outline job button the laser head will move around the perimeter of your piece once and allows you to open the lid and position your material accordingly. From what I've done so far on the Trotec, you have to:
-set your laser where you want it
-position a marker to the laser
-trigger the outline function
-if you want to nudge your piece, cancel the outline function (which takes forever)
-return laser to marker position
-repeat
Is there a better way of doing that that I'm not aware of?
4) as a continuation to #3, the outline function only actually outlines the art work. So if you drew a circle on a white rectangle, Job Control only outlines the circle. I need it to outline the actual page border since I'm only concerned about everything in relation to my material. So far the only solution I've found to that is drawing a rectangle (in a very light grey that relief mode won't engrave) around the piece in my design which then forces Job Control to show me the edge of the page while running the outline function. The huge drawback there is engravings take way longer since the laser head must now travel across 100% of my piece. Again is there a better way?