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Thanks for the help and advice guys.

Thanks for all the help & advice given so far, I feel I'm going in the right direction at last! Any advice on the following please? Cutting speeds & power. I'm planning to make scale models of flat pack furniture with my 6th formers at school. I am using 6mm Laser MDF and started by using th...

The textiles teacher at my school has been eyeing up my newly installed 6840 laser cutter!!! She wants to know what fabrics can be cut, and what power & speed settings? Any one any experience with this? I was wondering how well it would cut if the fabric is not flat. Do you need to masking tape ...

I forgot to say the machine has a 60 W tube upgrade.

After lots of kerfuffle I've got the beast running but have further questions. I'm using 2D Design to draw my shapes. Export file as dfx. onto a memory stick, giving each drawing a name i.e. demo Import file / drawing on Laserscript programme, unite lines, select lines to cut / etch with power + spe...

The USB lead!!! It's a blue lead with a USB connector plugged into the PC, easy to pull out! Follow it back to the laser cutter & it disappears into a circular hole in the back. Open the side / end panel & the blue lead appears to go into a whole load of cables! The USB lead doesn't appear t...

Thanks Phil.

The USB cable isn't long at all but I get the feeling you may be right about the problem being something to do with the cable itself.
Would you suggest trying with a completely different USB lead?

Hi Dave, we're on half term break for a week (tough job but someone has to do it!) so not in school & able to try things out. I'm in Plymouth. Thinking about what has been tried so far the teckys have changed the PC but I'm not sure they have changed the USB cable. On the rare occasion that I ha...

Thanks Dave, I'll get the tecky guys on this....this sounds a possible / likely cause. Having said that we've tried drawing directly in / onto the programme using the tools on the tool bar & the same thing happens....click the download button & the error message comes up. The other problem w...

I'll need to check but I'm fairly certain they changed the USB lead.
They had to re load the software from the CD / disc supplied with the laser cutter.
Exactly the same problems.