I just bought a second-hand K40 machine, and am starting to get to grips with it. Everything seems to work OK, I have cut some basic shapes in card, wood and perspex using Corel DRAW v12, but engraving has me a bit confused. Although the dialog is set to engrave at 250mm/sec, the machine moves very slowly, taking 14sec to cover a raster line of about 50mm length. Am I missing something, or is this just the way it is? I also have the LaserDRW and LaserSeal programs, but I’ve only taken a quick look at them and think I’d prefer not to use them.
I ran into the very same issue today. Also cutting runs along at over 100mm/s regardless of what you set it to in laserdrw after Corel sends it over.
I hope someone has an aswer to this one too.
I am using Corel Draw X7 on Windows 7 and the CorelLASER plugin. Rastering seems to be fine. Could it be a compatibility issue with your Corel version?
I’ll give LaserDRW a try. I was wanting to use CorelDraw (aka CorelLASER, I think) on both my desktop PC for design work and on the netbook I’m using to control the cutter. Looks like the first move is to attach a bigger monitor to the netbook.
I don’t think there’s a CorelDRAW incompatibility, as it’s what came in the “Laser Cutter -Easy” zip file which I think came from someone in this forum, but I haven’t ruled that out.
LaserDRW behaves properly when cut or engrave jobs are sent directly from there.
I think CorelLaser is overriding the settings in the job somehow. I also notice that the machine information is corrupted when viewed via corel. But looks fine when queried from laserdrw.
Is yours doing this too?
I made the Laser Cutter-Easy, I named it easy because I removed all the Chinese text and apps that were in Chinese, that have no real use to us.
The LaserDRW and CorelLaser plugin were both up to date when I posted the file.
The Chinese website says that CoralLaser is compatible with up to X6, so maybe X7 is not compatible?
I’ll test CorelLaser on CorelDRAW X6 later today, and see if I have this issue.
And just a fyi, I get the same corrupted machine info from CorelDRAW X6 on my machine also.
I think it’s more Chinese text without the Windows language pack installed, than a corruption issue. But I could be wrong.
Ok thanks for checking.
I’m building a fresh Windows 7 machine right now. I hope to test tonight and see if it’s just my little crappy laptop causing the issues
I’m still experiencing the same issue.
Question, does laserdrw interpret colors for functions? I.e. red =cut … Or are there predefined settings based on color somewhere? Maybe that’s the problem I’m having? Whatever the case, Corel imports still override the manual settings.
I just read somewhere someone mentioning the same issue. his resolve was to note and confirm the main board setting is correct when using corel. apparently they can change between CorelLaser and Laserdrw. I’m still at work But I will check this out when I get home to see if thats the problem I’m having.