I just acquired a really good CO2 laser tube, and going through building the machine around it.
How mature is LinuxCNC for laser cutting? I see it was used for this several years ago, although it seemed like a hack job. I like to do fine-detail rastering. This does require rapidly changing the power level, so it's quite a different task that just turning on the laser with "Z". I am familiar with Lasersaur. Formal development stopped a long time ago and I heard it only supports rastering with branches, and it's kinda wacky in that they have the PC dumping the design to a Raspberry Pi and THEN using a 8-bit micro to step out the motion control. Some of my rastering has been huge, and it would bulk up a lot when becoming g-code, which might be pretty massive to transfer to a Pi. I'd like to use that 7i92 FPGA card again and drive direct from PC, LinuxCNC sounds like a good plan. Danny ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
