PicEngrave Forum

Jeff,

I found that G54 offsets were set. Cleared them to Zeros and all is well. Ahh,, The simple stuff.

Possible enhancement for PS would be to make offsets easier to see / set. Just a thought.

Thanks for the help.
Ron

Jeff,

Thank you I will try that tonight.

Ron

Greetings, I have been using PS for sometime now and I like the additions made to the latest version. I do seem to be having an issue however; I execute a $Home command the machine moves to the lower left, homes, and sets the DROs to Zero I click on Zero X/Y/Z the DROs remain at Zero I click on Goto...

Jeff, Thanks for the reply. I downloaded the latest version. Turned off ellipse and skip white. Now it adds two (2) additional lines,24 and 25, but at least they are at low intensity. ( PicEngrave Pro 5 - for MS Windows US Version ) ( Date/Time: 01-19-2016 at 13:54:52 ) ( Image File: celtic shield )...

Greetings, I was using the settings shown in the attachment for the attached picture. The resultant gcode, added below, has an extra line added at line number 28 X-3.15 Y-38.1 Z-1.0000 F325. If you run this on a machine or on a simulator you will see the issue The result of this is that it burned a ...

Opps....I forgot to look at that...

Thanks,
Ron

Greetings, I have opened and image for edit and I seem to have reached a limit. I can not increase the size any further for some reason. See attached file Edit Settings.png I have also included the source file. cropped-taoist-tree-of-life.jpg My target size is 140 mm. In the future I will also need ...

There is an 8 bit DAC by MicroChip MCP4901. It is SPI instead of I2C.

Jeff,

In the schematic I provided delete the LM358 op-amp. It is not needed. The output of the DAC can drive the laser driver directly.

The original post has been edited and updated to reflect the changes.

Ron

yoda__by_tetrapak.jpg I am still learning how to tweak PEP5. it takes time and this working for a living thing keeps getting in the way of the fun stuff. I will attach the original here so you can see what I was starting with. I am beginning to see that the contrast needs to be much lower (whiter) ...