Can I trust reviews or are they fake as well? The problem with these offers on AliExpress (or Ebay, etc) is that the sellers seem to copy-paste the specs and images, and it is really hard to tell how reliable a seller is.
dxf fileĪliExpress 4040 Laser (Image source: AliExpress) Create the drawings with red, black and blue color e.g.What finally triggered again my interest was an article published on Hackaday: has reverse engineered that protocol to the commonly used M2 nano controller board (see “ K40 Whisperer” and published his work as open source and published everything on With his software, it gets as simple as that: So I had put the idea of using a laser cutter aside.
Corellaser vs laserdrw vs k40whispere software#
So all the software was rather disappointing to me. Or LaserDRW, a piece of software I consider as ‘not so easy to use’. What still was a concern for me was the software part: it seems many of these machines work with a CorelDraw (hacked?) version. The general consent seemed to be that these machines get better and better, and you get what you pay for. And some of them were indeed ‘horror’ stories. So I have followed many these ‘ultra cheap Chinese laser cutter’ stories you can buy on eBay (just search the internet for ‘k40 laser cutter’, or see this Hackaday lead article). I learned with using a 3D printer that faster cycles makes a huge difference, especially doing projects on weekends.
Corellaser vs laserdrw vs k40whispere professional#
Great and professional machine! Using it requires advance planning (the FabLab is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). We do have one of these expensive laser cutting machines in our FabLab at the Lucerne University, a 100 Watt AKJ-6090. When I'm done with the raster, turn the color on for the vector (if you don't use a solid fill, it will cut each side of the line).I do both by sending the selected object.It's a pain, but it works.60 kg Weekend Project Box arrived on the front door I mark the vector as white, but still select it and the raster layer and send both.
It's a learning curve! FYI - When combining tasks, if you include your 'other' task as either White (RBG) or (No Color) it will use it as a reference and ignore it.Basically, say I am rastering first, but it's in the middle of an object I want to cut out. Maybe try designing your Corel page to mimic the output of the laser (200x300) and send the entire document through laserDRW (making the layers you do not want - off (either invisible or turn off the printing setting.) That way it's getting ALL the reference.I don't know the answer, only guessing really. Mine by default only sends the selected objects - which would lose any sort of reference point being in Corel. Another newbie here with the same problem.I have the following setup:Corellaser 2013.9CorelDRAW X6 (evaluation version)Board: not sure.Īgain I think it has something to do with the way laserDRW takes the data and sends it to the engraver. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?Thanks!I'm using:CorelLaser: 2013.9CorelDraw 12 (Included with cutter)Similar Threads. However, if I change parts of the drawing, say by deleting the slots while leaving the holes as-is, the unchanged objects will now cut in different positions than before.I've tried including some reference objects, such as small boxes in the upper-left and lower-right corners but so far, the deviations from the accurate drawing are not predictable, even though consistent from run to run.I've searched the forum but I haven't seen anyone with a similar issue. I confirm that all the measurements are accurate in Corel, along with line widths and black color.When I go to cut, the holes don't match the angle iron holes and can be significantly off on both the X and Y axis, The slots are also improperly cut with the distances changing from the drawing.These cuts are consistent from run to run, seemingly eliminating hardware issues of the X and Y axis.
My workflow starts in FreeCAD and then I export the face as a SVG and open in CorelDraw/Laser.