[Lab] Laser

[Jonathan Edwards]

Does the print driver for the laser just need vector images in black and white? Or does it work with greyscale, as well? 

And how about bitmaps? 

Cheers,
Jonathan

On 2011-09-01, at 2:55 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:

> I've been using Sketchup for CAD work since it works well for CNC milling with Mach 3 software controlling the mill. 
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> It seems the printer driver type control for the ArtEngine Laser.... (we should come up with a name for it come think of it)...
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> It seems the printer driver is theoretically independent of the software being used to make shapes for vector cutting.
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> I was just drawing up something to cut from hardboard in InkScape. I like InkScape but there's another learning curve to get through on how to get things to fit. 
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> Before I went to far with Inkscape I wanted to see what opinion there was out there on what tool to use.
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