Newlydraw problem

[froggygeorge]

[COLOR="Red"]Need Help Urgently
I bought a laserengraver in China (Brand Signtide) which came with Newlydraw1 software. However the software does not "know" the Signtide in the factorylist (only Rabbit) nor the modeltype (SW 3060), only Rabbit, Rabbit40B and laser.
I have to choose Rabbit40B for my machine, to get it working.
But I cannot find anywhere in the software how set the "home"-position of the laserhead (X and Y offset)
I hope anyone can tell me how to set these parameters.

George

[zax15uk]

Hi George,

There are only a couple of different variations of these systems, the various companies are 'assemblers' so your Signtide will likely work fine as a Rabbit.

I am only concerned that it sounds like you have a 3060 system and not the 40 type machine, but I think by changing the device settings even that will be ok. You want to set the Width/Height parameters under Properties - Device. PosMode will allow you to set where the origin is location.

So, when you start up the laser it should move to the limit switches and initialize. This has nothing to do with the 0,0 origin of the software. The drawing origin also has no impact on the output location, so you can design in Newlydraw anywhere on the screen and then when you select output it will allow you to set where on the machie it begins.

You can check the origin using the ToTopLeft and ToBottomRight buttons on the device tab, or just enter locations in X/Y and click To X,Y.

So once you have it setup, to change the start location just adjust the X,Y parameters. You can see the job outline on the display - moving with the locations input.

Hope this helps,
Zax.

[froggygeorge]

Hi Zax,

Thanks for your reply. I will try to be a bit more specific about my problem. I have been engraving for many years with a computerised router engravingmachine ("Glider" by Francoelettronica, Italy).With that machine, when I pushed "home" the machine went to the left-top (X/Y) of the engravable area. This X/Y position could be fixed and altered by the software (Glyph). When this machine got out of order I wanted to try a lasermachine and bought one in China.
Being used to this way of working I want to set a fixed X/Y position of the laserhead by the software, from where it starts each engraving job.
However I connot find in the software the way to accomplish that.
When I start-up the machine, the laserhead goes automatically to the left-top, but this is out of range of the engravable area. When I give in a job and press engrave/start, the machine starts to engrave, but not where I want it, but out of the engravable area.
I think the machine does not communicate in the right way with the software, because the software does not know this type of machine. It does not know the factory of my machine nor the machine type.
E.g. when I clich the "engrave" button in the screen, I get a new screen with the possibility to move the head manually. But when I click the "down-arrow" the head goes to the right, when I click the "to the left-arrow" the head goes down, vice versa.

What must I do, to let my machine work in the right way ?

with kind regards,

George

[zax15uk]

You can change the axis orientation (coordinate system) in the device settings.

This should resolve your problems.

Zax.

[froggygeorge]

Hi Zax,

Thanks very much, but can you tell me where I can find the device settings ?

George

[zax15uk]

Click on Properties, near the drop down selector for the machine model and then select the device tab.

I don't know which of the 8 coordinate systems will work for you but you can test to determine the right option.

Zax.

[froggygeorge]

Hi Zax

Thanks for your guidance.

My machine is working now !!!!!

George

[froggygeorge]

Hi Zax,

May I present you another problem ? I want to engrave textshields for trophies with my laserengraver. I make the shields in Coreldraw12 and then import them into Newlydraw. As Newlydraw does not "know" .crd-files, I save them as dxf-files and import these files into Newlydraw. However, although I make this shields in one-line lettertypes e.g. Arial
Newlydraw shows and engraves them in "double-lined" (outline) letters. These letters are
to broad for me and the engraving takes more time. Can you tell me, how I can engrave single-lined letters ?
Thank you in advance.

with kind regards,

George

[zax15uk]

George,

Well your single line font (eg. Arial) is as you have discovered NOT actually a single line font.

You can certainly download some true single line fonts and then use the line width settings in Newlydraw to get the right thickness of letter. Since single line fonts are not closed shapes I don't know how Corel will deal with them so it may be necessary to input the text within Newlydraw rather than using dxf export/import.

I am actually surprised a simple Arial font is too broad, perhaps you need to set the line width to 0 and see if that helps.

Zax.

[froggygeorge]

Hi Zax,

I hope that you can help me out once again. Untill now my machine worked properly. I use it to make textplates for sporttrophies.
I design the plates in Coreldraw12, save them as DXF-file, import these files into Newlydraw and engrave them. All went well untill now. I think I did something wrong, without knowing it. What hapens now: I follow this procedure but when I created a plate of 70 x 70 mm., after importing the lasermachine is engraving a plate of 56 x 42 mm.
I did the whole procedure again, with the same result. I must be doing something wrong, but I do'nt know what. Can you help me out ?

with kind regards,

George

[zax15uk]

If you mean it imports in Newlydraw and shows on the screen as 56x42mm, then I suspect it is something in the Corel export since there is nothing in Newlydraw that would cause that.

If the screen shows correct size but output is smaller then it could be your dpi settings (device setup, H DPI and V DPI). They should be 1016 +/- 16.

If you want to attach a dxf I will take a look for you.

Zax.

[froggygeorge]

Hi Zax,

On the Newlydraw screen the dimensions of the plate are 70 x 70 mm.
However the engravingresult is 56 x 42 mm.
How can I correct that ?

wirh kind regards,

George