Let me first off say how fantastic this community is. I joined several days ago and have been diligently going through previous posts for information and “tried/true” methods everyone has used for these capable little machines. I hope to soon be able to contribute to this wealth of information and projects seen here. Now to the fun stuff! I have a problem I occurred in Laser Draw. I noticed that William Klinger had a similar problem with Corel Laser. If I try and cut or engrave a specific sized object, the final engraved/cut piece is reduce in size from what the dimensions are supposed to be. Roughly 20-25%. Has anyone had this problem in Laser Draw? Any fixes/ ideas to resolve this problem. Thank you in advance!
I did check that yesterday, everything is copacetic.
What board do you have selected?
@I_Laser M2
@Carl_Duncan Not silly at all. Sometimes the easiest fixes are the most obvioussolutions. Can I change from mm to in? I never saw an option anywhere to do so…
I believe when I changed “drawing” to “all layers” everything worked correctly. I found too that the serial number of the board was entered in the CorelLaser properties but was not in the LaserDRW till I entered it there too. WK
@William_Klinger Thank you for your input. Where is the drawing/ all layers found at in LaserDRW? I would try to use Corel Laser but unfortunately I can’t seem to get it running on Windows 7. Are they compatible? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
When you go to the engrave or cut window, about 1/2 way down on the right side is a box that can have All Layers or Drawing in it. I tried three computers before finding one that would run the Corel Laser correctly. All three loaded the Corel Draw 12 but one would not open CorelLaser or LaserDRW, the second one seemed to load up OK but gave distorted actions. All three are Windows 7 but each one has a different version of the OS. The Home Premium seems to be working on an older Lenovo laptop. Good luck.
@William_Klinger Thanks for the help. I tried to switch from “dialogue to all drawings” in LaserDRW with no such luck. Guess I will just have to keep playing around with the settings to see if anything changes.
be sure you have your board serial number entered in both Corel and LaserDRW.
Any solution here yet? I have the same problem, Corel image is always about half scale but LaserDRW works just fine!
@Carl_Duncan how do you know what’s the correct board? I just got mine yesterday. How can I tell what it should be set to? TIA.
@William_Klinger where do you set that up?
Look in the electronics compartment, there will be a green pcb with the model written on it. eg mine is 6C6879-LASER-M2. I think most people are getting M2 boards.
This needs to be set in corel, just click the cut or engrave button whilst in corel and on the following dialog choose properties (top left), mainboard = model, just select your board from the drop down menu.