LightBurn will control your laser cutter supporting DSP controllers.

Employment Opportunity / RFQ (Request for Quote).With LightBurn software, you can layout, edit graphics for cutting and engraving with your laser cutter and engraver without the need for additional software.

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You are correct ideally having two machines would be great but if one is tight for space then a laser added to a CNC machine is a great space saving solution and being able to use ones existing CNC table is a great cost saving. There has been a recent update of UCCNC that now has a plugin that manipulates the Gcode that is spat out of Lightburn into the correct M10 and M11 commands needed and for engraving the most important one Q commands to control the power of the laser.

UCCNC can do cutting just like that of MACH 3.īut when cutting with a laser you need the spindle output to be off whilst it moves to different cutting positions which is where the M10 and M11 commands come in again both Mach 3 and UCCNC can use these you need to have CAM software like Inventor or Fusion 360 post processors to output the Gcode correctly.īut what I was eluding to was that Lightburn which is probably the most common software used with virtually all Chinese lasers can do so much more and really is a graphic program very similar in look and feel like Inkscape this outputs Gcode directly but until recently was non compatible with UCCNC.

As I said for engraving UCCNC has its own plugin which allows engraving of photos etc. Yes UCCNC is software like Mach 3 and one can use various controller cards like ESS Smoothstepper or CNCDRIVES own ones like ETH300.

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