@@ -78,12 +78,9 @@ You can send the file to your laser by serial (USB cable) or SD memory card.
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@@ -78,12 +78,9 @@ You can send the file to your laser by serial (USB cable) or SD memory card.
* Open the software and set the port of your laser in the options. It will typically be COM7 - otherwise it's the same as what your programmed your Arduino on originally. The port speed should be set to 115200
* Open the software and set the port of your laser in the options. It will typically be COM7 - otherwise it's the same as what your programmed your Arduino on originally. The port speed should be set to 115200
* Press the connect button, it will turn green.
* Press the connect button, it will turn green.
* Open your gcode file you created earlier and press the print button. Your laser will now burn your instruction set.
* Open your gcode file you created earlier and press the print button. Your laser will now burn your instruction set.
* I have found the repetier host sometimes repeatedly fails unexpectedly when burning vector lines after a raster for no apparent reason. It will suddenly stop sending further instructions to the laser and the arduino needs to be power cycled.
Alternatively you can use pronterface http://www.pronterface.com/index.html#download however pronterface has a bug which prevents it from correctly reading the raster data.
Alternatively you can use pronterface http://www.pronterface.com/index.html#download . You must ensure you check the box for Pronterface under 'Advanced' tab in the exporter plugin. It is checked by default.
At the moment if you want to use pronterface to burn rasters you must replace all instances of + and / in your raster data with the number 9. The GCode is just a text file, you can do a find and replace on these characters in your text editor.
I have found that pronterface is 100% reliable for burning the vectors that repetier host has issue with.
