Hey All, So I've got a 40W inbound from China.

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Hey All,

So I’ve got a 40W inbound from China.

While I anxiously await its arrival I’m working on getting things ready this side.

Currently 3D printing a new exhaust adapter.
Got a 5gal bucket and Distilled water
Powerbar
CO2 Glasses (Inbound E-Bay)

This unit is coming with CorelDraw/LaserDrw.

My basic understanding is I will be drag/dropping or pasting into LaserDrw???

Is there a preferred file format?

I’m playing around with Inkscape converting files to vector. Hope that will be useful?

Still learning…

Kris

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I am still learning after 18 months,make sure add a water flow switch and fit it when it comes in,also have water tank at laser cutter level,read ,read and read some more

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If you’re planning to use the CorelDraw software flow, there is a plugin that goes with that called CorelLaser. You open CorelLaser.exe & it opens CorelDraw (with the plugin toolbar active). So, you can import directly into CorelDraw then. With the version that shipped with mine (CorelDraw12) I couldn’t import SVG files, so I had to use Adobe Illustrator (.AI) files from v9 (anything newer would fail). Not sure what options there are from Inkscape, but there will be a suitable format.