i never said I wanted to engrave at those speeds. Jogging and rapids would be nice though.
If you mean a more rapid speed between āwhite spaceā or areas where the laser doesnāt actually engrave, thatās easy to change. Just be aware that too much speed will more than likely affect the overall quality of the engraving. Under the Device Settings tab, make sure Fast White Space Scan is enabled and change it to whatever you feel comfortable with. I donāt recommend setting it to the highest the machine is rated for though. I believe my machine is rated at 36000mm/min and I have mine set to 15000. I guess I am not understanding what you mean by jogging and rapids. If your laser head is only moving in small increments when you use the arrow keys, this can be adjusted as well within the Move tab. I think many others have said this before though, so I am not sure exactly what you are looking to accomplish.
I believe I understand the core concern and Iām going to investigate it further in the morning.
A new topic on what I interpret the issue to be:
If it really is just jog speed, thatās different and easily altered as wellā¦with the speed value in the move window, although that particular control MAY have limits similar to the 20% power limit while using the āFireā button.
I guess this is above my pay grade. If you have multiple objects at the 4 corners, wouldnāt the whitespace variables used determine the speed from one engraved/cut object to the other? And quite honestly, on a diode, not really used for commercial or industrial use, does 3 or 4ā¦or even 20 seconds difference on a job matter? I am so lost as to what the OP was trying to get across. āIā thought it was just that the laser did not move at 54000mm/min all the time in whitespace or when jogging the laser into a position. Which, quite frankly, is just a wrong assumption on their part if that was what they meant.
Damnā¦I think you guys are gonna make me learn gcode after all lol. Iāll follow your new post about this and I do appreciate all your posts. Like it or not, I guess I am a student again.
I canāt confirm or deny the whitespace theory as I donāt use it. I tested it early on with fill ops (at 10k+ since my fill speed was already 6-7k) and determined it hurt quality with no meaningful decrease in job times. I have never reenabled and tried it in the specific scenario described in that topic. Will do in the morning.
I generally have my jog speed set around 4k and find that a happy medium. Once in a while Iāll drop it down to 1k or so if Iām doing an odd job on scrap (I donāt have a camera). Iāve never tried setting my jog speed higher than about 5k as itās generally too fast for framing and pointless when only moving a few mm at a time.
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I hope they have gotten better as I will be ordering one in the next couple of weeks
I wouldnāt do that. Iāve had the refound laser head twice, the first time it had crumbled glass inside the laser module where the glass system is located. Ikier change it. The second module worked for two months and just stopped working, that is, it does not cut or engrave, but the fan works. This module was replaced as well. The third module worked for 6 months he began to degrade the laser (diodes) Became worse to cut, the power fell. Although I used it for 40 hours a week and cleaned it after each use. So think about whether you need it?
to late already have had it for a few weeks and it has over 10hrs on it now (working on sotne and brick now)
OK I found out what I hate about this machine.
The touchscreen display is pretty uselessā¦ you canāt position or run the machine with it. it is only to set tilt, flame and such safety settings. I tried the offline usage and when you press home it goes from home out to the location and just traces the outline continuously until you press cancel and then it goes back to home position no ability to fine tune image placement except by re-writing the g code. With it homing every time it makes it difficult to manually adjust the fixed focus. I wish the screen was much more usableā¦