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Dave Vigness
Posts: 526
Joined: Sun Dec 15, 2019
Location: Kansas City - Rural
Country: USA
Nickname: Dave
Laser Machine Make or Type: Chine Red and Black
Laser Power: EF RF2 80W
Laser Bed Size: 20 x 26
Home Position: TR
Control Software: RDWORKS
RDWorks Version: 8.01.54
Ruida Controller: RDC6445
Windows Version: 7
Accessories: Power Switch for air assist / exhaust blower, Ma meter with switch for external digital, dual digital temp gauge, LED lights under gantry and and and.

Pics and a list here. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Downloaded RDWorks in prep for a controller swap to Ruida. Saw and downloaded LaserMaker, but have NOT installed it.

What is it?
Pete Cyr
Posts: 1964
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2016
Location: Suffolk Virginia
Country: United States
Laser Machine Make or Type: Boss 1630
Laser Power: 100w
Laser Bed Size: 16"x30"
Home Position: TR
Control Software: RDWORKS
RDWorks Version: v8.01.18
Ruida Controller: RDC6442
Windows Version: Win 10
Accessories: roller rotary attachment

I don’t know...never used it
Location - VA
Equipment - Boss Laser 1630
Power - 100W
Laser Bed Size - 16" x 30"
Home Position - TR
Full RDWorks Version - v8.01.18
First name - Pete
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Gene Uselman
Posts: 2180
Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2016
Location: Suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Country: USA
Nickname: Gene
Laser Machine Make or Type: QC
Laser Power: 130W
Laser Bed Size: 900x1300
Home Position: TR
Control Software: LIGHTBURN
RDWorks Version: RDw .19 & Lightburn
LightBurn Version: Latest
Ruida Controller: RDC6442
Windows Version: Win 10 Pro
Accessories: I have a combining lenses, pin tables [homebuilt], honeycomb tables , wireless remote, Modifed Ultimate Air Assist, home built non-powered rotary device, PrusaMK4 and Mini Prusa printers.

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Mike Henry
Posts: 27
Joined: Thu Apr 27, 2017
Location: Chicago 'burbs, IL
Country: USA
Nickname: Mike
Laser Machine Make or Type: Thunder Laser Nova 24
Laser Power: 60
Laser Bed Size: 20x28
Home Position: TL
RDWorks Version: v8.01.18
Windows Version: 7
Accessories: HR nozzle, rotary, chiller, air assist pump, exhaust blower

I believe that Thunderlaser is shipping a 1-year license for Lightburn with their CO2 lasers now. Seems like they have shipped LaserMaker for a while before that. If so, I wonder why they dropped the latter for the former.
Lightburn Admin
Posts: 58
Joined: Wed May 31, 2017
Location: California
Country: United States
Nickname: LBAdmin
Laser Machine Make or Type: Kehui 700x500 (Ruida controller)
Laser Power: 100w
Laser Bed Size: 700 x 500mm
Home Position: TR
RDWorks Version: 8.0.18
Windows Version: 10
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In short, because LightBurn was much farther along on the feature set they wanted, with very similar design goals.

At a trade show last year they demo'd LaserMaker for me and I demo'd LightBurn for them - it was pretty clear that they were making something quite similar, and since I was ahead of them, they decided to just use LightBurn.
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