New purchase from Dropswell UK

[Dropswellaser]

Hi We now support RDworks on all of our laser machines Best Regards Francis Dropswell

I'm thinking I'll use Corel Draw alongside Laserdrw. It looks the most fluid workflow, I have to say. Plus there's plenty of tinkering by the good guys making extensions for Inkscape etc. So there's another avenue if I don't get on with Corel.

Does RDWorks work with the Dropswell board, anyone? Or controller mod required?

[wmgeorge]

Hi We now support RDworks on all of our laser machines Best Regards Francis Dropswell

Your graphics program has nothing to do with the controller choice. You can export out a BMP , AI or DXF file into your Chinese laser controller software. Just because you don't have a Macro or Print Driver interface means nothing.

[StuartL]

I'm guessing that you don't have experience of RDworks or LaserDRW?

Each of those packages interface directly with a proprietary machine controller and are not interoperable.

Each package will take vector files as input (LaserDRW takes only EMF) and allows you to set up the cut based upon the loaded file. Both do have basic drawing functionality with RDworks being slightly better.

CorelDRAW can load the proprietary CorelLASER plugin which can then control the LaserDRW compatible controller.

Both LaserDRW and RDworks require a (different) USB authentication key to operate.

[wmgeorge]

I'm guessing that you don't have experience of RDworks or LaserDRW?

Each of those packages interface directly with a proprietary machine controller and are not interoperable.

Each package will take vector files as input (LaserDRW takes only EMF) and allows you to set up the cut based upon the loaded file. Both do have basic drawing functionality with RDworks being slightly better.

CorelDRAW can load the proprietary CorelLASER plugin which can then control the LaserDRW compatible controller.

Both LaserDRW and RDworks require a (different) USB authentication key to operate.

My third year with lasers, three Chinese and one USA made ULS. Never heard of a controller for Chinese machine that only used one type of graphics program, for that reason I would not purchase that machine and with a USB dongle to boot! . I did learn, thanks for keeping me updated.

[StuartL]

The PCBs are here for the controller replacement... watch this space

[123stencil]

The PCBs are here for the controller replacement... watch this space

Good stuff, Stuart. Looking forward to the results