CNC Master Notes
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These are our collection of notes on the Laser CNC Master Restoration Project.
Specs:
- Make: Cam Tech
- Model: LaserMaster CM155
- Year:
- Working Area: X?, Y?, Z~6"
Process Overview:
- Design your project in Easel (or still untested, Carbide Create)
- Export gcode file as .nc
- Setup Table
- Waste Board
- Material onto Waste Board
- Install Appropriate Mill end (bit)
- Launch Software
- Reset Zero as safety
- Load .nc file
- Confirm dims with visualizer
- Move router into position
- Reset Zero For reals this time
- Create Drill locating hole
- Return to Ideal Zero
Setting Up CNC:
Using UGS
This is the software that takes your gcode file and feeds it to the router line by line in a way that it will understand it.
Launch UGS by double clicking this icon:
New to Linux? Run the software with this option:
Links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOcqlAb7ZLM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU80JLGsEAs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCUHsJ4Ktj0
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- http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?125009-Camtech-LaserMaster-Users
- http://www.dataworks.gr/old/uk/products/specif.htm
- http://www.cnczone.com/forums/commercial-cnc-wood-routers/172133-cnc.html
- http://www.laserform.ca/pdf/CAMTECH_brochure_email.pdf
- LaserCut 5.x Archive
- http://www.co2-lasers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/MPC6535-Software.rar
- Our Copy: MPC6535-Software.rar
- Note that if you extract this under Linux you will get many duplicate file names. Presumably, these are the 32, and 64 bit system files.
- Hardware Manual: MPC6535-Hardware_Manual.pdf
- Laser Manual: Operators_Manual_48_Series-1.pdf
- Software Manual: LaserCut5.3-Software_Manual-V1.6.pdf
-- Main.ClifCox - 11 May 2016
Status:
2024-08-05: It works!
NOTE: There are NO stop switches installed, so it will gladly tear through the bed, or really try hard to run itself off the rails if you let it. And if you are pinned between it and an edge, expect an emergency room visit at the least.
The X,Y& Z axis are moving. The Spindle control is working UGS works well with the system.
- tickle_pulse.zip: Arduino code for laser PWM with tickle pulse.