Disable steppers and manually home the laser head, not the print nozzle to the bottom left of the engraving material.Here is the guide for preparing the printer whenever you start any project that involves a live laser. Turn the fan speed off as fast as you can afterwards. Now, very carefully, twist the knob around the laser head until it focuses into a little blue dot.As fast as you can, set the fan speed to 255.Put on the green safety glasses that were included with the engraver.Put the engraving material on the bottom left corner and secure it with binder clips or masking tape, preferably the latter.Here's how to focus the laser in setup - you won't need to do this much in the future. I couldn't take any pictures of this process, since it involves a live laser, which is very bad for a camera lens. Wrap twisty ties around the Bowden tube, the other wires, and the laser engraver cable to secure it in place. Affix the engraver with the magnets to the front of the print head and make sure it's straight. Hook the red and black cable in to the port where we removed the fan cable from last step, also illustrated in the pictures.įollow the Bowden tube and the other cables with the engraver wire all the way up to the print head. That's where the laser engraver will get connected. If there's a fan cable attached, follow it to the motherboard and gently remove it. Slowly remove the cover and lay it to the side. Grab your allen wrench and remove the screws on the cover pictured. Allen Wrench - probably comes with your printer.I haven't tested any other 3D printers, so I don't know how others would work. 3D Printer - Probably an Ender 3, Ender 3 Pro, or Ender 3 V2 would work best.
So once you've ordered one, let's begin, shall we? Look at the pictures throughout to see what I mean in some steps. I set it up over the last few weeks, and now it's ready! It's a pretty good model, and engraves wood, plastic, and cardboard. gcode and that is it.While I took some time off for Christmas, I received a laser engraver attachment for an Ender 3. The g-code will be generated in the txt file so open it and replace txt ending with. Set the speed around 1000 and click apply.
So now, the first plugin we are gonna use is the one that are going to fully engrave the whole image on our material. Now, simply open the inkscape and firstly define the workspace of your printer.Īfter that import your favorite logo and vectorise it by clicking trace bitmat command.Īlso, dont forget to resize the image to the final dimensions and place it in the left bottom corner. Firstly, download an inkscape software and two plugins for laser engraving.Īfter installing the inkscape, extract both plugins and copy the content to the written location.
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