Trying to use the “Pause before” and “Pause after” settings in the Cut Settings Editor, but they do not appear to have any effect. Test case - two sublayers, both with 1000ms set for before and after. Yet both sublayers are run immediately one after the other. Any ideas please? I’d like to be able to use this since I use delays a lot in EzCad for sensitive/small parts, to allow time for them to cool down.
Not the Expert, but I think sublayers are tightly linked to the Layer. I am afraid you might need to break the sublayers out into distinct layers. That, I hope, will give you the Pause between operations.
That’s a good idea, but unfortunately it still doesn’t work! I tried two layers, rectangle on each, same delay settings for each, but one is again run immediately after the other.
Did some testing and have good news! They do work. The input is in mS, so enter 2000 (2 seconds) and watch what happens. You get delays in different parts of the burn depending on what the design looks like.
You will get cool down periods for sure.
Mehhhhh…nope! Still can’t get it to work 
Yup, been entering 2000 for the timing. If you could have a look at this video, it shows what I’m getting. Hope the screen shows up clearly.
I’ve tried -
- Multiple repeats of one object in one layer
- Two objects in the same layer
- Two objects in different layers
- One object in one layer with two sub-layers
and in all cases the timing didn’t do anythinig.
I’m presumably missing something (e.g. it took me ages to realise that the “Auto-rotate” option is completely unrelated to the “Angle increment” value) but I’d like to know what it is!
I don’t have a fiber, but what if you use the repeat marking dialog (Laser Tools> Repeat Marking) instead of the repeat button in start. There is a place for pause in that dialog. Worth trying, I think.
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Hmm, wasn’t aware of that, thanks! That would definitely do in a pinch, just ignore that it thinks it’s for rotary and let it mark as usual.
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Everything I do is custom engraving, so I never needed Repeat Marking. But I read up on it to understand what it is. I did see the rotary must not be enabled to use it, even though you can use the rotary.
Yup, that’s a bit like EzCad’s rotary mark feature, it’s for when you want to mark a complete single shape “flat”, so good when you have small repeating decorative elements around a cylinder. Could definitely be hacked a bit to use for adding a delay.
Not sure if it got lost in the posting but I did a short video showing what I’ve been trying with the pause before/after setting and not getting anything:
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