New Member from North Idaho

[Carl Kerttu]

Hello to everyone in the affordable laser arena,

My name is Carl run a small sign shop and award business out of my basement. Equipment I currently have is a 48x32 CNC router (home built off of openbuilds components), A Roland GS-24 vinyl cutter that I picked up used for a heck of a deal, a bunch of various woodworking tools, all my measuring equipment from my years as a manual and CNC machinist, and recently I punched the order through on an ebay 60w 500x700 laser engraver/cutter. The Laser should be showing up this next week along with a cw-3000 chiller. I still need to purchase an amp meter and some other various parts before I can start running.

I found and have been watching Russ's videos on youtube for hours. He has by far the best info and explanations out there. I found this forum off the RDWorks Learning Lab 68 and had to jump on and register.

I hope to add whatever I can to the group here and gain as much knowledge as possible.

Thank you

[Pete Cyr]

Welcome Carl. What software do you use with your router?

[Carl Kerttu]

For artistic design- Coreldraw 2018, mechanical design- fusion360, CAM- Vcarve Pro and Cambam. CNC control is grbl ran with UGS.

I would like to upgrade my CNC control one of these days, machine slows down in corners with code from Vcarve.

Thanks for the welcome

[Pete Cyr]

Your do all your laser design work in Corel and export from Corel to RDWorks using a. Corel/RDWorks plug-in.