RDWorks Learning Lab 78 Justifying Text
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2016
- If you own a Chinese laser cutter this little series of videos about me learning how to use the free software provided, may solve the problem of trying to learn from a virtually unreadable manual.
I am nothing to do with RD Works, I am not an instructor and I am no expert. This series will document the essential bits of many hours of trial and error - Věda a technologie
GREAT video! Thanks for the clear instruction. Cheers, Paul
Thanks for the video. Do you have a video on how to draw circular text around an object ?
Hi Alex
Sorry to say that RDWorks does not have the tools to do this. However if you like visit the lightburnsoftware.com/ you can have a 30 day free trial of a much better RDWorks rewrite that has so many more features including lots of text manipulation capability. I think it will cost about $90to buy
Best wishes
Russ
Thanks for another great video
Sir,
At one point you did a video on prioritization on cutting, which video is that?????
Need some help
Hi Roger
Help is on the way
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Best wishes
Russ
Sorry that was not what i was looking for,
when you start the cutting of a project you can decide what order things cut or etch?
@@rogerrentz1448
Hi Roger
Perhaps I am not understanding your question. I thought that you wanted to control the order of cuts and engraving That is what the video I sent you was all about. There is feature called Handle,Cut Optimise that when you tick certain boxes it automates cut or engraving ordering, but it is about 90% reliable, That is why I don't use it because often human intelligence is required. The other thing you will find out is that regardless of how you arrange layers the machine always does engraving before cutting.
Best wishes
Russ
Is there anyway to curve text around a path in RDWORKS?
Hi Tim
Sorry for the tardy reply, I somehow missed your comment. Sadly RDWorks is not a drawing program. It's ability with text is very limited and certainly not clever enough to sit text on a defining curve.
Best wishes
Russ
bonjour, as tu une liste avec la quel est écrit la hauteur, la vitesse, la puissance laser pour découper? et pour graver merci
Je suis désolé pour la réponse tardive, votre e-mail a été caché. Si vous allez à
www.thunderlaser.com/laser-download, vous y trouverez des listes d'informations de coupe pour le pouvoir de tube différent.
Meilleures salutations
Russ
Hello, is there a way to have a single contour Line for the text ? Thx
Hi Claire
I presume you are struggling with script fonts that have overlapping ends and therefore do not join into a single outline.
Sady RDWorks is not clever enough to deal with this. There is a complicated way of editing with nodes but it's not practical. However, that trick and MANY others with text and fonts can be managed in Lightburn software. This is basically a rewrite of RDWorks that operates on Win. Mac and Linux machines and also drives many different types of digital controllers This is an amazing program with MANY extra features. You can download it as a 30 day free trial. If you like it is about $90 to buy with 1 year of updates. It's yours for ever but if you need to keep it updated then I think it's about $25 per year
www.lightburnsoftware,com
Best wishes
Russ
Thanks! It's very helpful! :)
That was a great tip.
great videos, but none of them that I can find address my problem. I received my 50 watt laser a few days ago, and I cannot get it to read any files from my usb stick. I have all different file types on the usb stick, but when I put it in the machine, it says "no files". I have dxf, svg, ai, bmp, pdf, and rid files on the stick, but when I select read usb stick, it says no files. Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Hi Ray
It's almost certain your USB stick is formatted NTFS. Wrong. It must be formatted FAT32.. Secondly non of the file formats you mentioned can be read by the machine.
DXF, BMP and ai can all be IMPORTED into RDWorks but pdf and svg are not recognized formats. When you have created your program with parameters and wishe to send it to the machine it is always a good idea to SAVE your file first. This save will will be a .rld file that can be OPENED in RDWorks at some future date. Once you have your program ready there are 3 things you can do. Provided your machine and PC are connected in some way, ethernet or USB cable.
1) you can press the START button in RDWorks and your program will be sent to the machine as a TEMP FILE and will auto run. Once in machine memory, you can press the machine start button and keep re-running it. It is not saved to the machine memory for future use.
2) You can press the DOWNLOAD button and you will be asked to provide an 8 character file name Once done and ENTER will transfer your file to machine memory where you can recall it at a future date and re run it.
3) When there is no connection between PC and machine you must press the SAVE to UFILE button (bottom right). This will create a machine code file which you can save to your USB stick. You can only load this into your machine with the FILE button after plugging it into the correct Udisk port on your machine. You cannot OPEN or IMPORT this file back into RDWorks.
Hope this explains everything
Best wishes
Russ
Thank you Russ, I have spent two days just trying to get a file into the machine and you got me there in 10 minutes, but when I try to engrave the file it says, "not enough end space", I did a frame test and I have a large enough piece of wood, what is it trying to tell me?
@@rayreeder5234
Hi Ray
When you select scan you specify a scan speed , say 400mm/sec. Just like a car, the head cannot immediately run at 400mm/s it takes a certain distance for the head to reach the selected speed. Engraving cannot start until your selected speed has been reached so you must add that distance to the beginning and end of your scanned image . That means you cannot set your picture origin too close to the machine 0,0 You will need to lset your origin at 15,15. for example.
Best wishes
Russ
@@SarbarMultimedia Thanks Russ, but no matter what I try, I still get "not enough extended space" error when I push the start button on the machine (it is accepting the file now,thanks to you.). I'm sure I'm missing something simple. Is it a setting on my machine on in the RDWorks software. Thanks for your patience and help.
@@rayreeder5234
Look top right corner of RDWorks and tell me what is the number v8-01-??
Go to Config, System settings and make sure your head is set to the same corner as your machine 0,0
Go to Config, Page settings and make sure that the X and Y settings are correct for your machine.
Not enough extended space means that some part of your program exceeds the defined work area.
Best wishes
Russ
How can I rotate a text
Russ I absolutely love your videos, they've taught me nearly everything I know about how to operate RDWorks and my Laser. However, in this case, why on earth would you not just create the first line of text, set the properties the way you want, then copy/paste to get the other lines you want? You can then edit the remaining lines to be the correct content, and you can then do all the same alignment tricks you just showed, but each line remains as editable text that can be changed, both in content and style.
Thanks for the comment. Yes that works
Best wishes
Russ
@@SarbarMultimedia Hi Russ! I'm watching your Machine health check video now, and I'm very interested in getting one of your Dohickeys if they're still available. I messaged you about it on an earlier video, but never heard back, so I took down my email address for safety. Please let me know if you still have those.
@@Elmojomo
Please accept my apologies. You did as requested and sent me your email. Most of the time Google automatically sends any comments to my Gmail. Your current reminder comment worked fine but your previous one slipped though that hole so I never got referred back to the comment. I have just been into my summary comments folder to see if your sent to my "possible spam" bin...... but no. However I have found several other non-copied comments there.which I shall have to deal with. I assure you I never ignore comments, every one gets an an answer if required.
Yes, I still have dohickys available and I can only ask you to try one more time and I will watch both my email and summary page closely over the next few days to see if I can pinpoint a reason for this gmail failure.
Best wishes
Russ