I found a video youtube.com/watch?v=eMADCKuP5fE
Are they using the U axis for the rotary, and the Y axis unchanged?
How do you do this in RD works or Lightburn?
4 position rotary
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Ken Witucki
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Ken Witucki
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I found a video youtube.com/watch?v=eMADCKuP5fE
Are they using the Y axis for the rotary, and the U axis for the Y move?
How do you do this in RDworks or Lightburn?
Oz wrote:
Ruida’s control of the U axis is very limited. They only allow scanning / cutting moves on X&Y, and there are no commands to move U or Z while X&Y moves are happening. The U axis is pre-set as a feeder, and I get to tell it how far to advance at the end of each job, nothing more.
Can I loop at the end?
I know how to do this in G-code?
Are they using the Y axis for the rotary, and the U axis for the Y move?
How do you do this in RDworks or Lightburn?
Oz wrote:
Ruida’s control of the U axis is very limited. They only allow scanning / cutting moves on X&Y, and there are no commands to move U or Z while X&Y moves are happening. The U axis is pre-set as a feeder, and I get to tell it how far to advance at the end of each job, nothing more.
Can I loop at the end?
I know how to do this in G-code?
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Interesting. I wonder how practical this is in real-world usage (initial costs, production time, etc.) compared other techniques like lasering a mask and then sand carving/sandblasting.
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Oz wrote:
They must be - the U axis can be set to feed a fixed amount after a job (usually used for fabric cutting or large sheets of material) and you can set a job to repeat. This would only work if the distance between the items was the same, and the items to be engraved were identical. They set the work to repeat 4 times, and only have a single item in the software, then they’re manually jogging the U axis back to the start position at the end of the video.
Ken
This looks like I can use on a 2 head laser? (laser 2 offset)
They must be - the U axis can be set to feed a fixed amount after a job (usually used for fabric cutting or large sheets of material) and you can set a job to repeat. This would only work if the distance between the items was the same, and the items to be engraved were identical. They set the work to repeat 4 times, and only have a single item in the software, then they’re manually jogging the U axis back to the start position at the end of the video.
Ken
This looks like I can use on a 2 head laser? (laser 2 offset)
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