Hi all currently using Lightburn with my Onefinity CNC with a 7W Jtech Laser having good success with both.
Looking at work for the next few months its looking like i need to go down the route of a dedicated laser as the cnc needs to cut out the wooden items to be engraved by the laser (as there are only 24 hours in a day)
Most of the work is lettering and logos onto wooden items made from various hard and soft woods.
A perfect spec would be :-
Enclosed Machine
Lightburn Compatible
Wi-Fi enabled
450mm x 300mm engraving area
Workpiece Thickness from 10mm to 100mm
Possible future addition of rotary axis to enable engraving of round items
I know i may be asking for the impossible but going round in circles looking at items at present
Cheers
Workpiece thickness my mistake should read workpiece height, no requirement to cut with the machine just to engrave, workpiece height is the size of what i will need to engrave a lot are plaques around 10mm thick some are boxes around 100mm tall but just surface engraving on all
Current machine has a spindle fitted, I fit the Jtech 7w when I need to engrave the reason for an additional machine is that the increase in orders means that I am short of machine time. Some of the items that require the spindle can take a fairly long time to complete
WiFi enabled, the cnc sits on the home network which means i can upload files onto it from my laptop with out wires or usb drives I can also control the cnc from the laptop which means i can monitor its progress on long jobs
It would be great if the new laser would do the same
4th axis so as i can engrave text on small wooden pots and bowls
Thanks for the help so far very much a newbie into the laser world