[Lab] Laser

Darcy Whyte darcy at siteware.com
Thu Sep 1 19:50:06 EDT 2011


It does it all...







On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Jonathan Edwards
<zigwhentheyzag at ymail.com>wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > It seems the printer driver type control for the ArtEngine Laser.... (we
> should come up with a name for it come think of it)...
> >
> > It seems the printer driver is theoretically independent of the software
> being used to make shapes for vector cutting.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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