When I try to generate code for a laser cut fill operation in laserweb it gets to 50% generated pretty quickly and then gets stuck at 50% and doesn’t do anything for several minutes. If I save the same file as a raster image and generate a solid raster g-code it is done is seconds so the file isn’t really that large.
Is this normal for it to take so long? I am trying to do it as a laser cut fill because things are spaced out and it is much quicker this way rather than sending the laser head over all the blank space. Is there a way to get raster burns to skip all the black space?
I just downloaded it last week I think.
Is there a way to raster engraving but eliminate a lot of the “wasted” blank space that the laser has to go over?
Imagine like I’m engraving a border around something, all that space in the middle makes the raster engraving take forever to complete. Is there no way around this?
There’s a series of bugs we’re working on. Right now your best bet is to stick with the version you have and use raster. Once the bugs are worked out laser cut fill should be faster.
I’ve found a work around that is pretty good until the laser fill gets fixed if anyone else needs it: I use Illustrator but anyway, I union(this makes them easily grouped later) together parts of the design that I want to engrave and then save as a .svg file. Upload into laserweb and then select each part that I unioned together and create a separate laser raster merge operation for each one. Generate g-code and there you have it, all that middle waste is gone. Not as quick as laser fill would be but much better than before.
@adammmmaNYC it might be worth dropping back to an older build until the guys have time to fix the bugs. At least you will get a working LW that way. I have had to do that a couple of times as it’s something you can expect to do while they are still developing.