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General Mach Discussion / Controlling a Fiber Laser engraver with Mach ?

« on: September 01, 2019, 06:48:00 PM »

I've been looking at fiber laser engravers as they seem to be able to engrave finer detail than I can achieve with a high speed spindle and they have pretty reasonable prices for say a 30W machine.
However, the software that typically comes with them seems to cause users a lot of issues for rotary engraving, never mind full 4 or 5 axis work.
So, I'm wondering how feasible it would be to attach a fiber laser source with simple fixed focus optics onto one of my existing cnc machines similar to how many users have done using a diode or co2 laser source ?
Are there any particular issues with controlling a fiber laser source ?
There an example module here;
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32960062748.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.588d7765V9G1B0&algo_pvid=086b3b84-9a1a-481b-a05d-a9d6759e58b3&algo_expid=086b3b84-9a1a-481b-a05d-a9d6759e58b3-1&btsid=c3382929-2c03-4a09-9030-17a477e0befd&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_10,searchweb201603_52

thanks,
Rab
www.cnc-toolkit.com

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / FileIn ?

« on: January 25, 2009, 04:12:37 PM »

What's the correct usage of FileIn ?

I'd like to use this instead of calling a subprogram if that's possible?

thanks,
Rab
www.cnc-toolkit.com