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LaserWeb / deprecated-LaserWeb3

Open Source Laser Cutter / Engraver software. Supports gcode, svg, dxf, stl, png, jpg, bmp
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Cuttings order optimization #213

Closed Biondilbiondo closed 7 years ago

Biondilbiondo commented 7 years ago

Using laserweb with our self-made lasercutter we have noticed that frequently the gcode generated by the "simple cam" of laserweb have a lot of usless G0 move. In our statistics we found out that in typical gcodes only between 10 and 50 % of the distance covered by the machine is for cutting. I have implemented a simple algorithm that allow to get a much more efficient gcode, drastically cutting the usless movement of the machine around the cutting area. I hope that this could help for get more fast and accurate cuttings but probably a better implementation is needed for a full support in laserweb. If you want to see the code you can find it here: https://github.com/Biondilbiondo/LaserWeb3 Thanks

ghost commented 7 years ago

Nice! Please make it into a pull request (:

ghost commented 7 years ago

Well, as we are about to launch LW4 (very very soon) - I am closing this one since that work will be redundant anyway

ghost commented 7 years ago

Any chance you can bring your protocol onto LW4?