Hey All, Does this seem slow or normal?

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Hey All,

Does this seem slow or normal?

Laserweb3
Light 2500mm/s
Dark 2100mm/s
Min 25/max 40
Travel Moves 1500mm/s
Smoothieboard 3x/k40
Windows 10

Still fumbling my way around.

Also I have to be on my .bat screen for it to engrave with the speed shown. If I click on another window it basically slows to 0 speed. Is this normal?

Any help appreciated.

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You would never reach the speeds you are commanding… what happens when you do 200dark and 300 light?

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Seems about same speed. Engraved darker.

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Can you send me a copy of your config file?

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Sure… email address?

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Post it on Google drive or another cloud based service and share the link… that way if I miss something @Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty ​ or one of the other people here will catch it

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@Alex_Krause Here ya be… https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TmtKs6ubOYVlczRER5Q1hLejg

Running Smoothieboard 3x on All-Tek ACR Mark II setup

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TmtKs6ubOYVlczRER5Q1hLejg

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Do you happen to know what firmware you are using?

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Also in laser web did you specify laser on off commands to M3 and M5?

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Nov 1 or 2nd http://firmware-cnc.bin

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Did you by chance use an image that was dithered (made up of alot of tiny little dots)

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I tried using them when I first got the smoothie. It would give me invalid command. Havn’t trid them since firmware upgrade.

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I’ve tried bmp , png, jpg.

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can you post the image of what you are engraving? i will run a test and post a video here of what i am getting when i run the image

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@Alex_Krause here is the one i’ve been testing with. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TmtKs6ubOYS3FMdUVUY3RHSU0

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TmtKs6ubOYS3FMdUVUY3RHSU0

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Screenshot with M3/M5 usage
and error:Unsupported command. @Alex_Krause

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There is alot of dithering on that image I would suggest taking it into inkscape or corel and tracing the image to a vector and turning it into an SVG (inkscape) or a BMP after a trace in Corel. Also note that when you set your speeds up you will not be able to travel faster than 500mm/s which is in your firmware

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I can give that a whirl. Is 500mm/s the norm? Did my config smoothie config look ok? what about these unsupported commands M3/M5?

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M3/m5 would slow you down even more than you already are experiencing…

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500mm/s is about the max speed a k40 can handle engraving