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Re: Help needed please

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:59 pm
by Spooky
No problem,it's what we are here for.

To be honest if your cutting doll scale furniture the best way will be native DXF format and set any engraving to a low power cut that will mark the surface only.

It will mean needing to learn a cad package, I'd suggest Draftsite as it's free and will save in native DXF format. It won't be a quick process as even basic cad packages can be quite daunting but it will be well worth it :)

best wishes

Dave

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:13 pm
by Daven
I agree with Dave in the meantime have a read of this. Its a quick and dirty way of getting an outline from a picture ;-)

Dave

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:57 am
by Susie
Ive got to grips with all the designing now and ready to give it a go only problem is I cant get the Laptop to recognise the laser! I am plugging everything in and running the machine when I try to install but the laser LS3020 is not on the dropdown menu. Other laser types are but not this one.
Susie

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:05 am
by Daven
The laptop is XP? You have loaded the drivers from the small disk? Can you confirm what version of Newlydraw you have.

Cheers

Dave

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:19 am
by Susie
Yes Xp - The Cd is version 1.5

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:35 am
by Daven
Just to make sure, and not wanting to patronise - you have the water tank set up with distilled water and the pump running? When you switch the laser on it should clunk a bit as it homes the head - does it do this?

When you turn the laser on did XP give a message about finding new hardware?

Dave

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:42 am
by Daven
Does the screen look like this?
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Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:47 am
by Susie
You can patronise me as much as you like as long as I get the thing working Lol. It didnt clunk when I turned it on but it has water and the pump running. the disc said it couldnt find hardware so i installed it from c drive.

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:49 am
by Daven
LOL- if you want to call me I can try talking you through it - will pm you a phone number ;-)
Dave

Re: Help needed please

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:21 am
by Susie
Ok