How to use LaserGRBL to make your Laser Cut Projects
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2022
- LaserGRBL is a functional way to run a laser cutter, but it can be confusing if you don't know how to use it. In this video we will make a project for your laser cutter using LaserGRBL and Inkscape that will teach you everything you need to know about creating with a laser cutter and free software.
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Download Inkscape: inkscape.org/
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You are the most pleasant to listen to of all the laser workflow tutorials I've seen so far. Thank you.
I am getting ready to start my home laser engraving adventure. This was not only helpful as far as learning LaserGRBL, but you did a great job making Inkscape easy to follow. Thanks so much!
well done, I'm waiting on my first laser printer and you have giving me a jump start on actually having a file to print when it gets here. THANK YOU
WOW the perfect video, just what I needed to start creating, engraving and cutting one object. just assembled my Atomstack A5 M50 Pro and not a clue how to create my own objects, this is the eureka moment for me thanks a million
This is the most useful tutorial I have found . . . . . THANK YOU
I've watched a few videos on Laser GRBL, this is by far the best
Fantastic tutorial, I've been trying for ages to engrave and cut. Excellent video. Thank you
Thank you for this introduction to LaserGRBL. I'm going to try it out.
Great tutorial man, this was super simple and easy to understand and got me ready to go by the time I was done watching. Thank you so much!!!
Thank You for making this Video.
This is Exactly what I needed to learn in order to create something without having to make a jig and trying to center everything.
Just used a Laser Engraver for the Very first time Today and I've been watching video after video just so I could learn how to create a simple engraving.
This is definitely the technique I will be using!!
Thank You again for Your Time and Help with learning something New!! 🙂
Thankyou for such a great video, i just received my laser engraver yesterday and trying to learn everything you just showed.
I was up most of the night tinkering with 3 different drawing software.
I used to run cnc lathes and write program codes but im a complete novice to designing for projects like this so im going for free open source software for the moment.
Lasergrbl and inkscape are the 2 programs ive set on to learn with
Thank you so much!!! This is exactly what I was looking for and you explained it so perfectly!!!!
Great explanation. Thanks a lot for your clear and precise description of what it takes and just what it takes !!!
I love you man , you saved me, I had a deadline until tomorrow and now I am so stress free. hanks for the video !
Gerbils with lasers attached to their heads? Dr Evil would be proud. Thanks for the video.
Many many 5hanks for explaining the process so clearly. I am going to follow this process and make my first piece ever.
Thank you so much for this! Really helpful, best one yet ti follow along as you work!
This is amazing. Great job man!
Great video, I was looking for something like this that was easy to understand.
Excellent video! I was ready to sell my rig for a loss out of pure frustration until I found this - thank you!
Thanks! I just got my new laser and I'm learning laserGRBL. Guess I will be learning Inkscape too.
your voice is so relaxing ... thanks for the useful information too
I just want to make a cake topper for my husband. Thanks for this instruction. I will try it out soon.
Very useful video. Many thanks
Thank you! I was looking through LaserGRBL tutorials trying to find how to setup the separate cuts. No one that I found did this. I came from a sign company and set up the cut files for them but, we used Illustrator and I never worked with the laser software itself.
Very helpful, Thank you!!
thanks. got my new machine. so will try some of this out. very helpfull ty
This was like THE VIDEO I needed
This was the video I wish someone else had made. But no one else had, so I made it. Glad someone else needed the same.
Thank you thank you thank you so much for this video. I cannot even begin to tell you how long i have been trying to find this video. I got an enjoywood laser and could not for the life of me figure out why my laser wouldn't engravebut istead just simply cut everything. Thank you thank you thank you gain.
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!
Bonjour de France 👋👋 et grand MERCI pour votre contribution. 💪💪
You're quite welcome, my friend.
great video thanks
Thank you sir
Thank you. I felt my IQ increase.
God bless you sir...
I'd like to point out two things:
1. If you delete the outline before exporting to png file, it will take less time to engrave - the laser will go only in the engraving area and skip the rest.
2. I wouldn't recommend appending those two files (cutting and engraving) if your laser needs more passes to cut the chosen material. I'd suggest engraving first and then opening the svg file to cut.
I like to just fire and forget, but you're right, if you break them into separate files, theoretically they should be able to be run back-to-back, so if that's the way you prefer to do things, you can. You've got options.
1. yes but then the text will move to the left side not centered to the svg file. I my case this will not work
EDIT: My mistake ! You have to export as page size !
@@HardcoreMusik Yes, export as the the whole page. I also set DPI to 300 and then use the same setting (300 DPI) in LaserGRBL - it sets the size automatically.
How do I cut a single straight line? I want to cut some things in half. If I vectorize it will cut a 2 dimensional shape, x axis and y axis. If i dont vectorize, it will cut side to side with a big kerf. Currently I have to import a rectangle, vectorize, and stop the burn after it's done the first line.
Is there a way to just cut a single straight line?
That's an interesting question. Inkscape does have a single line tool. Does that not translate to a single line movement?
It would be easy enough to edit the GCode by hand. It is (mostly) human readable. just a text file you can open in word and edit.
one of the few clear tutorial incorporate Inkscape and LaserGRBL 👍
I am trying to engrave a grid on MDF wasteboard for my Ortur LM2 pro 10A as my first project (exercise), when drawing the grid lines on Inkscape, I am not sure if I should set a stroke width (min, max) for the lines.
Also how would I avoid overlapping burns from crossing VLines over HLines or any other overlapping lines (maybe overlapping 2 circles with no fills).
would it matter if I group the Hlines and the VLines to get efficient engraving time.
The line width in inkscape doesn't change anything with the laser. I tend to set it about 0.4mm, since that's the width that most lasers cut.
However, as for avoiding overlapping, there really isn't any easy or automatic way to detect and fix that with this tool chain.
Thanks for putting out this video. Illustrator and lightburn on the yearly fees don’t help the newbies.
Do any of these software allow you to change the speed and power while an engraving is already running? That was my biggest gripe with Lightburn. And I thought LaserGRBL didn't have this restriction.
I don't know of anything.
That's actually a slightly complicated problem. Not insurmountable by any means, but not something that I know of anyone tackling yet.
Great tutorial, I am jut starting into laser engraving and just got an older Mercury L-25 machine. Will this program work with my equipment? Any and all help is appreciated.
I've never used that machine. What software do they recommend?
@@3dpprofessor they recommend Autocad or Coreldraw. Hpgl is the format.
So for different materials you just adjust the output of laser? There is no option to just click metal or wood ect..?
No, there's no options like that.
Especially since different machines have different strengths, and even "wood" isn't granular enough. Different woods need different settings.
Hi! Thanks soo much for your awesome and well explained video!! I followed the steps you explained and I was able to engrave in my piece of wood. However I have a question, I couldn't cut the key chain and that is what I need to complete my project. Could you help me please? Thanks in advance.
What laser cutter do you have?
What settings did you use on the SVG cut lines when you imported them?
What material were you trying to cut?
Did it go through the motions trying to cut and just not cut through? Did it make a mark? Or did it not even try to do the cut motions?
@3D Printing Professor, thank you so much for your answer. I have an Sculpfun S9. I followed the video regarding the properties. I am trying to cut in a 3mm balsa wood piece. I think the machine tried to cut and just not cut through, maybe is that I have to do more passes?
@@dialysmillet9872 More power, less speed, more passes. Play with the settings until it cuts through without being too scorchy.
Unfortunately I can't help with this because I have no idea what your settings are.
Good luck.
@@3dpprofessor Thank you for your help!
Just have a Q. I have inkscape, I have adobe illustrator, and photoshop does laser grbl strictly work on vectors? I mean can I just create my work in either photoshop and or illustrator?
As long as you export to SVG, you should be fine.
Terima Kasih (*thank you*)
Thanks for sharing. As an alternative is it possible to import the cutting profile as png too an vectorize it within LaserGRBL?
I don't think LaserGRBL can vectorize raster images. But, it's free, so load it up, give it a shot, and let me know how it goes.
So apparently LaserGRBL does have a vectorize plugin. Give it a shot.
like your video! Have no clue how far away you place your laser from the wood?
Every laser has a different answer to this. Check with your manufacturer.
Thank you for this great tutorial! Question: What would cause Lasergrbl to not open my SVG file from Inkscape? It opens one file but not the other. Thanks.
Interesting. As I don't have access to the files it's going to be hard to guess. I assume there's something different about one of them.
Maybe if you jump on my discord and upload the files myself or someone else there could help better.
If you can read the code and find out if M4 I'f active m4 activates the laser learned that two days ago. Was kinda having same issue
What would cause LserGRBL to slow down and stop when cutting circles?
Dunno. Never saw this behavior myself.
How could I have that image import window to appear? my software have a widow that ask me to create and then it place the image in the workspace from that the workspace never the same size from different image and impossible to move the image on the workspace, there is no where a factory reset to reset thing right. Nice video but useless for me because my software doesn't act same as your.
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I wish it wold move the z to make/burn a wider path to fill thick areas faster, I want to do big jobs and I just realized how slow this will be.
Gday thanks for your vids but i am stuck. Every time i resize the picture to fit in the keychain it goes blurry i have tried everything and it is ether too small or too big i followed your steps and still cant seem to get it to work. The size of the keychain is W45mm x L27mm that i want to engrave on and the picture i am resizing is W5400px x L2070px can you show what i am doing wrong thanks regards jon.
The image can only work with the resolution it has. It can't add pixels that aren't there. So it blurs them as they get bigger. My recommendation is start with a higher resolution source image, if you can.
Also, since the laser can only be on or off, it's possible that what you're seeing on screen doesn't really matter much.
The centreing and framing buttons are grey in laserGRBL even when successfully connected to my atomstack. I have just set it up for the first time. Does anyone know why this might be?
No idea. Never saw this before.
thank you. i dont know english very well but i uderstand your video , how to use grbl laser.
Thank you very much. I try, when I'm teaching, to be as easy for non-native-English speakers as possible. I know there's a lot out there.
How does it work if you take a picture of something and want to cut the border line is giving me trouble
General pictures probably won't work, but I'm guessing you're talking about a logo or text or something that's generally black and white.
Inkscape has the ability to trace a raster image and create a vector from it. That may be what you're looking for.
Of course there is an even better alternative... www.3dpprofessor.com/2022/10/01/how-to-lasergrbl/
Can you do a video on LightBurn. I actually find it more confusing than Grbl... but I may be the only one.
I don't understand how you got the yellow rim around your circle.. it's not doing that on mine so when I try and remove the fill there is nothing there..
I chose the color when I made the file in inkscape. You can make the lines whatever color you want.
hi i am trying to form a ellipse after selecting the ellipse icon can only draw boxes any one know why thanks
In inkscape? No idea. Never seen that before.
Mine when I do this doesn't have the outline and I can't figure out why
In inkscape? Possible your stroke settings are set to a zero weight stroke. See if you can change that in the Stroke settings menu.
I am unable to align the circle with the text, I am absolutely new to this and I got confused when you went back to correct the alignment
The new version of Inkscape changed a few things. But if you can't find the alignment tools, just move them around by hand until they look right. Close is usually close enough.
Why the cut has to be a SVG file? why can I export as JPG as well?
SVG allows for vector data which describes the direction of a line, where jpg only allows for raster data which can be interpreted like a dot matrix printer, but with only one dot.
In this project we use both raster and vector data, but instead of JPG we use PNG because it's non-lossy. JPG doesn't do hard edges very well.
@3D Printing Professor thank you so much for your answer I wanted to ask you another question I would like the laser to go around the Border a second time? While engraving the words will be one time around but the Border will be two or three times around how do I do that
I just figured one solution where I import the frame two or three times as many times as I wanted to repeat itself
@@Amazing.World.2024 Yeah, LaserGRBL doesn't seem to have a "passes" option, so you're left with either importing multiples of your lines to do multiple passes or exporting the lines and raster in separate files and running them one after the other.
i was totally with you up until the export file part. My file drop down menu doesnt say export png image, there is only export. when i click export it brings up a totally different menu than what you are showing & I cant change my image in the same way you are :(
Huh, I wonder if I'm on an old version of Inkscape.
If you press Shift+Ctrl+E does it bring up the export PNG Image menu in the right sidebar?
@@3dpprofessor The same happened to me. I follow it exactly, but certain things don't show like they do on yours. I cannot figure out how to engrave and cut. When i import the egg, then the words, it does not line up on grbl. the words want to sit on the bottom line instead of centered in the egg.
What IF I have a .DXF file and want an exact laser cut of the image?
You may have to convert to an SVG, but it should work.
@@3dpprofessor Hi, I tried that, but still the program is not cutting the exactness as my neje laser software does with a .DXF file. I wish I could use the neje software on my new AtomStack X20 130W laser.
@@waltperko8389 what do you mean by "exactness"? Are you taking into account the cutting width?
The options of with and height on the program aren’t there, only start and stop.
That is correct. Many cheap lasers like this you put the corner of your project at 0,0 and then place the head manually and the project starts from wherever you put the head. That way you can, without having to create a new project file, cut in different parts of the same material.
Many of these lasers don't even have limit switches. They have no way of telling where you've put them.
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why you saved cutting as svg and not pgn?
Eithers a good option, but SVG can have raster data in it, so why not?
@@3dpprofessor thanks that vid was a big help to projects
I think I must be doing something wrong. I can't get the the key fob to cut out it just engraves same as text what have missed
What laser cutter are you using?
A 5.5w on a 3018 pro
Is it going through the motions to cut but it's only engraving?
5.5w is kinda underpowered. Anything thicker than paper or denser than cardboard it probably can't cut though, no matter how hot or slow you go. But you can still get smooth engravings by using vector movement.
I'm brand new to this and you used some terminology I'm unfamiliar with😢. Is there another video for beginners?
Like what terminology?
Why cardboard burn while cutting?
You're cutting it with fire, so... burn is possible.
I’m having trouble even opening any of the PNGs of text that I save. Help me out if you got a second
Have you tried opening the PNG in another program? If you don't export them properly, they might be empty. Make sure your export settings are for the whole thing.
I have a Latitool engraver. I set it up and downloaded LaserGRBL. I tried the test files. The only test file that fires the laser and moves the laser is the depth one. Nothing else I've tried will fire the laser or move it more than an inch in a square. There is nothing in the configuration button when I click on it. Any ideas on how to get this to work?
Contact the manufacturer. If they sent you a machine that doesn't work, get your money back, I say.
Why can I open my folders
Because that what folders do?
I'm not sure what you're asking.
Great video.
Once you know what you're doing, lasergrbl is easy. He says as he redoes it because he did it wrong.
Well, that part of LaserGRBL could definitely stand some improvement.
You are skipping over important pieces of the demo like what happens with the image when you click "Vertical"?
Give it a shot and let me know how it goes.
That just defines the direction the laser moves when it does the rastering.
your voice reminds me of Technoblade
I had it first.
Radio voice
Why, thank you.
Very helpful! Thank you