Estlcam laser trouble

Mostly Printed CNC - MPCNC Troubleshooting
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I’m using a ramps 1.6/arudino sandwhich.

 

Im trying to laser burn a simple logo of my college, and am having trouble figureing out estlcam.

I followed Mostly Printed CNC MPCNC - Part 9 Laser Cutting Paper with ESTLCAM - YouTube OGC’s video on it, and everything is going ok until i get to the simulation part. It makes multiple passes, which is probably fine but i have no idea what to change to alter this. If I only want one, what do i change? also, when actually running the program, repriterhost or the gcode starts the laser and then waits 6 seconds. this makes a huge burn hole and honestly just looks like shit. It has also frozen twice in the same place.

 

Attached are my tool settings for the laser.

 

before posting this i somehow managed to only get it to do one pass. no idea how? i just kinda messed with it until it did what i wanted in the simulation. its still doing the 6 secondish pause after turning on the laser.

 

i can include gcode if need be :slight_smile:

 

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Your Z depth per pass and material thickness should match. The one you show is at 10mm, you probably want something like 0.1mm.

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ahhh ok, thank you :slight_smile:

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i figured it out and feel so dumb… i had created multiple objects on top of each other ! it was only one pass per object but if you have multiple objects stacked…

 

:slight_smile: just happy i got it fixed lol