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t-oster / VisiCut

A userfriendly tool to prepare, save and send Jobs to Lasercutters
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Lasercutters support options #73

Closed peteruithoven closed 11 years ago

peteruithoven commented 11 years ago

For some users there are a lot of lasersettings they rarely use or not even supported by the lasercutter. The current window: lasersettings In the case of Fablab Amersfoort that is focus, ventilation and purge. A possible solution would be to list whether a lasercutter supports these features in the lasercutter settings. This could be 3 checkboxs:

A next step could be to customize what options are shown (inline) when you edit the lasercut settings. This also could be a list of checkboxes.

This is a part of my overall issues with the focus of Visicut at the moment:

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t-oster commented 11 years ago

The settings for the laser-cutter are not specified in VisiCut itself, but in the driver's code. This means VisiCut has no influence, wether ther is "power, speed, frequency" or "magic setting A, B C and D"... I added the ventilation and purge to the LAOS driver, because it is specified in their simple-code (http://wiki.laoslaser.org/index.php/SimpleCode). I can add settings to the driver itself to hide those options, but it won't have an effect on already saved settings, so you may have to delete your .visicut/laserprofiles folder, after I closed this issue.

peteruithoven commented 11 years ago

Just to clarify, I'm talking about the following settings screen. These are not saved in Visicut? lasercutter settings

So if I understand you correct you meen that visitors would need to reimport their "Fablab amersfoort Visicut settings" for this to have effect for them? That seems fine to me.

t-oster commented 11 years ago

Please check the latest nightly-build. If you create new settings for any cutter-material-thickness-profile combination, purge and ventilation should be hidden by default. However, if there were previously saved settings, the checkboxes will still appear (but have no effect because the driver ignores them). You can re-enable purge and ventilation in the dialog you mentioned above

peteruithoven commented 11 years ago

Fuck you're fast. (and great how that works with these nightly build releases). Seems to work great here. Although the "Focus is initially on the base ..." settings stays. (issue #74 ) Is there any way to reset/clean/clear these settings? Where are they stored?

t-oster commented 11 years ago

The settings are stored in $HOME/.visicut . On Linux $HOME is /home/, on Mac OSX it's /Users/ and on Windows it's either C:\Users or C:\Documents and Settings.

Just give me a second for focus (as you see there was not an option to not support focus yet...)