Hi Kevin,
there is an interface available that gives the possibility to link a laser
controller to the project which can be used to send commands to a laser.
Currently only the interface exists but no related plug-in that could handle
commands to be sent. That's simply because nobody requested it until now ;-)
So we would add a generic serial interface plug-in for controlling the laser for
you. So what would you need exactly:
- a possibility to choose and configure the serial port
- a possibility to send a freely configurable ASCII (?) command to the laser at
the beginning and end of a marking cycle
- what additional commands could be useful/imaginable here?
Kind regards
Jim
On 28 January 2013 at 10:48 Kevin Criqui <kcriqui(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm working with a marking machine that has a Spectra Physics
T20-BL10-106Q laser and a Scanlab RTC4 controlling a Scanlab scanhead.
Everything is working pretty well, though I still have lots to learn.
One thing I'd like to do that I haven't figured out yet is to issue a
command to the laser over the PC's serial port at the beginning and end
of each marking job. Specifically, I want to send the command to put
the laser in run mode at the beginning and standby mode at the end. Is
there any way to do this?
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