Yesterdays work went well, I had some testing and some laser cutting to do. 3-4 times I had to call Christian over to reset something because the software needed some weird commands, but we’ll keep working through it.
Here’s the idea: I’m going to use this time to throw my screenshot slide show at these guinea pig users and answer any questions. It will show me what the slides are lacking. Then I can send the slides to all laser cutter users so they can come in and do their project on their own without having to set up times. If people are nervous about that, they can re-take the free quick authorization class which is offered at least monthly.
One comment regarding the slides. You show how to add your SVG file and note that you no longer have to convert to DXF. That’s obviously a good thing, but my first reaction was, oh crap, you mean it only works with SVG? Most of what I do on the laser cutter starts out as DXF. I see from the LaserWeb wiki that it should work with DXF/SVG/BITMAP/JPG/PNG. I am assuming all of those work? Might want to note on the slide that you can still use DXF?
Haven’t tried much of other filetypes, but I did import a simple DXF the other day and it worked fine. It cut the whole shape as one piece without having to run some silly ‘Unite Lines’ command.
Ian joined me, and we successfully cut out a very large cardboard snowflake and then engraved a unicorn! er, picture of a unicorn. no engraving on actual unicorns, that’d be mean.
I’ll be back tonight. I also printed the slides and left them in a 3-ring binder on the table that I’ll point people towards.
I like the new software. It’s much more like the shop-bot & plasma cutter software, but not quite the same.
When I go to “Add a document” in my local install of LaserWeb, I have the following file types:
*.png, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.gcode, *.g, *.svg, *.dxf, *.tap, *.gc, & *.nc.