Good day!
I got and set up my EleksMaker engraver yesterday with the LaserWeb 3. I’m not getting the best of results. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks!
If this is done in Inkscape, I would make certain that all strokes are at least 1px and every non-path object is converted to a path. Also, deeply nested groups should be ungrouped.
@Walter_K_opaque How exactly would I do that? It seems that no matter what I do my laser either doesn’t burn enough to engrave anything or burns with 100% power
Decrease laser dia e.g. to 0,15 and reduce laser power. Take a look at my test below. It is always a combination about feed rate, laser dia and laser power. To in-/decrease only feed rate is not always a solution. For engraving raster images I got best results with feed rate with 40/40mm and laser power from 0 - 35% in LaserWeb3.
@Walter_K_opaque Alright, I adjusted my settings to match yours (both grbl and diameter) and on 0-35% it literally didn’t even leave a mark on the cardboard. Only when i put it on 0-90% I got the result in the picture
How much mW does your laser have?
Don’t change $100 and $101 because this related to the pulley tooth (mine 30 tooth).
Are you sure that your laser is running with 100%. Take a look in config.h too, have you changed anything there (SPINDLE_PWM_MIN_VALUE). After updating to grbl 1.1 I had also problems to set laser to 100%. You can also try 0-1000% in Laserweb3 , if this changes anything then you have to double check PWM max values.
I was having the same problem as @Karlo_Krizetic with laser power only engraving/burning at high power value. Settings were$25=255 and same set in gCode PWM in LS3.
Changed to $25=1000 and same PWM as @Walter_K_opaque suggested and it definitely made a difference.
Forgot to change laser diameter so it’s still at 0.5
Feed rate=40/40
Bitmap res= 200
Laser power = 0min 75max
@Walter_K_opaque It’s 2500mW and I only change most of the settings, I left some (like $100 and $101) alone. I haven’t changed anything in the config.h, to be honest, I’m not even sure how one would get to that. I set up everything initially by following Jords tutorial on youtube. Also, here are the results on different precentages. It just seems that no matter what I do, it’s either black or white, no grays in between.
1000% looks much more darker than 100%. So you have anything wrong in your settings. 100% sould look like your 1000% image. I don’t know how exactly the algorithms works but I think there is the problem (LaserWeb3 has then only 10% of your laser power to calculate). +Peter van der Walt: Do you have any idea where the mistake can be?
+Peter van der Walt I see. Oh well, this will be fine for the moment.
But just for future reference, would upgrading my setup be possible/what exactly wound need changing?
And thanks for all the help up to now!
