We’ve received user feedback expressing the desire to use the 10W laser module with Snapmaker Ray. However, currently, there’s no corresponding quick-swap plate available to attach the toolhead bracket on Ray. Additionally, some users provided feedback about losing their calibration target and being unable to recover it.
To address this, our Product Team has designed a printable quick-swap plate that will assist you in integrating the 10W laser module with Ray. We have also designed a printable calibration target for users who have lost theirs.
Feel free to download the STL file, print it out, and follow the installation video to install it onto your toolhead bracket. Please note that two M4x8 screws are required for installation, and users need to prepare screws in advance.
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Has anyone connected up their 10W laser module to the Ray system ? It is something I am seriously considering as I am not getting the results I require from the 40W unit.
I would like to know this, too. My results (so far) with the 40W are also not that satisfying like I had on the 2.0 with 10W.
The only thing we got so far is a manual how to install the module on the Ray. So maybe someone has done some testing etc.
is there a certain reason, why the calibration target model is 80x80 mm while the original calibration target is 60x60? Are there different cal. plates? And I don’t understand “for users who have lost theirs” - did I miss something? How am I supposed to use the model with a lost cal. target?
Maybe I just misunderstood or so, any clarification would be appreciated.
Since Ray comes standard with the 20W/40W modules, you don’t need to use a calibration target when using them. Therefore, the Ray’s materials list does not include a calibration target.
If you want to use the 10W module on Ray, you will need a calibration target. Please print the STL calibration target mentioned above. (80 * 80 * 10mm)
Hi, I got this so far… I printed the model and my question is, how to use this… in the video as well as in the picture is a metal plate (looking like the 60x60 target of the 10W for SM2) put on top of the printout. According to your answer there is no 80x80 target that came with the Ray. So far, so good… I understood how to calibrate my 40W and I know, that there is no target needed.
I just reply to the first post with the pictures and all …
“We have also designed a printable calibration target for users who have lost theirs” This is the part I do not get.
Picture 1 and 3: you can see a printout in white AND a metal plate that fits perfectly in the 80x80 printout… what is it? and how do I get it in case I lost my original target (which is way too small anyways) - sorry if I ask the same question again and again, but I am more and more confused by the answers. The printout is only on the borders 10mm, the mid part is 1mm lower.
Maybe you can make a short video where only the parts given (printout) is used how it is supposed to…
me again…
since I got no satisfying answer I need to ask again about this printout…
and my next question is: what do I set in Luban? I choose Ray as machine and there is the choice for the laser I use in the dropdown: 20W; 40W; 2W
What do I choose for using the 10W-module?
I wonder if no one is using the 10W laser with Ray … or I am understanding things wrong the whole time…
Hi
Apologies for slow reply, due to work commitments
I printed of both the adapter plate and the 20 thk target plate. Mounted the 10W module on the adapter plate (was a bit slack, but a small bit of masking tape sorted that). Set module height using the target plate and worked from there.
I just used the standard 40W settings and adjusted them to suit, using similar settings to my 10W laser on my A350. The settings need to be adjusted slightly (speed slightly increased, power slightly reduced, trial and error basically)
It has been working okay since then.
As mentioned in another post the software needs to be updated to fully integrate the 10W laser with the Ray system.
I hope Snapmaker gets round to that soon
Thanks a lot for the reply…
Call me stupid or whatever, I am still confused. I am fine with the adapter part, printed it, understand why and how to use.
about the target - I described it different times… We have the printout, ok. Then, which way around do I use it? Flat side facing up? Then it would be used without the metal plate I use with my 350. The “hollow” side up? Then I need the metal plate - BUT the one in the video is one that no one owns as far as I understood (perfectly fitting the 80x80 print, while the plate that came with 10W is 60x60)… The metal plate we have is 2mm thick - but then it would be 1mm higher than the printout… Why don’t they give a video with ONLY the things we are supposed to have.
So maybe I ask the question differently: What height do I need for focussing the 10W Laser? Is it 10mm or 11mm?
Sorry, if I sound dumb…
Or maybe someone can make a short video like the one above, but just showing, HOW this printout is used properly with or without the metal plate 10W owners have.
Hi
I can only advise on what I do (it may not be correct but it works for me)
The target plate is a spacer that i use to set the height between the laser nozzle and the work surface.
I put the spacer on the worksurface, then lower the laser module down until it touches the spacer. Lock the module in place and remove the spacer, this sets the height of the laser module.
The height has to be set each time you change the worksurface thickness.
I only use the printed plastic spacer, not the smaller metal one that came with the 10W laser module.
I don’t know if this is correct, but it works for me and gives reasonable results
Thank you Duncan,
this sounds like something to work with… I will try a bit - usual business with snapmaker, but tbh it is something I like: find things out, a little tweak here and there… thank you so far, I will try like you did and then I’ll see how it works out
Now I set up everything and I am not able to choose the 10W-Laser with Ray - it is not available in the dropdown. If I choose another one, e.g. 20W and connect Ray to Luban, it tells me, this is not the laser I chose and I need to set it in the machine settings
