New Laser support for Bodor BCL 1309-XM, Thunderlaser Nova35

[jnweiger]

Hey all!
I'd like to collect any info about this laser cutter: http://www.bodor.com/CO2_Laser/87.html
Do we know if it is already (partially) supported by one of our driver backends? Or if it is similar to one?

This is what I have so far

• RUIDA Board
• (W)LAN and USB support
• Example hexdumps generated for another laser with a RUIDA board:

test.rd.xxd.txt
Rechteck.rd.xxd.txt
Rechteck_klein.rd.xxd.txt
Rechteck_3seiten.rd.xxd.txt

[t-oster]

Does not look very human readable/text based. IMHO all things we already implemented are ASCII, so your best shot is the leetro thing t-oster/LibLaserCut#204

[jnweiger]

Thanks for the hint!
The MPC6525-Controller-Mainboard and RUIDA Board look very different from the outside.
There is a poll that lists them as separate beasts: https://en.industryarena.com/forum/upgrading-laser-cutter-control-card-leetro-mpc6515--222194.html

[pelrun]

It's RDWorks, yaaaaaaay. :|

The files are (weakly) scrambled; the encryption and a lot of the format messages are reverse engineered here: http://stefan.schuermans.info/rdcam/

There are more message types in the example files given than are documented, but it looks pretty feasible to write a plugin for this.

[jnweiger]

We have sucessfully decoded the RDWorks file format. There is now a new inkscape extension (written in python) that is fully operational! https://github.com/jnweiger/inkscape-thunderlaser/releases

Next steps:

• porting class Ruida fromhttps://github.com/jnweiger/ruida-laser/blob/master/src/ruida.py to Java.
• add support for MinPower+MaxPower+Speed (instead of only Power+Speed) to the settings.

Help welcome!

[kkaempf]

https://github.com/kkaempf/LibLaserCut/releases/tag/v0.0.4 fixes this 😉

[pelrun]

@kkaempf I don't think that's the right way to go about that change, as you've added "min power" to every driver even though it's not appropriate.
You should make a new subclass of LaserProperty with the fields the Ruida driver needs, then override the getLaserPropertyForVectorPart/getLaserPropertyForRasterPart methods in the driver to return an instance of that class.

[kkaempf]

@pelrun thanks for the review ! Await my pull request 😉

[jnweiger]

I've made a release out of that branch and tested the code. Seems to work fine!

https://github.com/fablabnbg/VisiCut/releases

[mgmax]

@jnweiger Could you merge your changes into LibLasercut (maybe label the driver as experimental)? I fear that the code will diverge too much and it will become difficult to merge it later. (Currently, I'd guess you only need to care about t-oster/LibLaserCut@087c266 , but more changes may come in the future ).

[t-oster]

@jnweiger what is the state of your driver? Wouldn't it be better to have just one VisiCut version with all features? (We have proper OSX packaging now ;)

[jnweiger]

I agree, we should merge asap. I was not able to spend more time on Visicut unfortunately.
There is also work by @kkaempf and @mrlinux1 which I apparently had failed to merge correctly into my branch. I am seeing bugs that are supposed to be fixed already :-(

[mgmax]

Closing this issue in favor of t-oster/LibLaserCut#105

[kkaempf]

This should settle it: t-oster/LibLaserCut#180