Issue Laser cutting the "Gift Box"

[sdj544]

@sethbrower

For some reason (still haven’t figured out why) it ends up doing several runs on the same pass. So technically it ran about 9 times? For the square it cut, it would start tracing from the bottom left, and go clockwise, then trace once around from the middle right, then one more from the left side.

The way that you’ve created the square in your graphics program, it’s seeing it as having an inside and outside. So it’s cutting along both edges. Check that you don’t have a stroke or border on it.

@Mebyon

I can’t seem to get a wifi connection between the SM machine and my tower system computer

Maybe this will help:

WiFi Connection Issues Possible Solution

Just discovered this week, the wifi on SM2 will only connect on allowed wifi channels that are permitted in China. Whereas in the west etc much more channels are allowed. Your wifi router by default has a Auto function to change channels depending on interference, and if you have more than one wifi router in operation you will most likely manually select different channels to avoid conflict. So, if by Manual or Auto means your wifi router goes onto a channel that is not permitted in China, n…

Also some people have reported that making sure that if they have a router that’s both 2.4 and 5ghz, that making sure that their computer and SM are both connecting to the 2.4 sometimes helps.
Restarting router sometimes helps too.

@Mebyon

Calibrate cuts a neat square burn on a piece of paper but that’s it; no idea what I’m supposed to do after that.

You’re supposed to go and adjust the captured square in the camera image and make them line up. Personally I find camera capture pointless (btw, it only works over wi-fi due to technical/hardware limitations.) It falls apart as soon as there is any thickness to the materials. There are better and faster and more accurate ways to determine work origin on material.

If you’ve had success cutting and now having problems, try blowing off your lens with some canned air. You can try cleaning it too with some lens paper and lens fluid but I try to do that as little as possible.
-S

[Mebyon]

Hi there. Sending g-code isn’t a problem as I, spoiler alert, use Cura and just dump the gcode to a USB stick. My problem is, (was, as I have swapped out the laser head for the 3d printer head now), my complete failure with the camera. Hence my plea for a proper User Manual so we could ‘use’ the machine.

Anyway, I now have a wider bed to 3d print on so I’m sorta happy(ish). I’ll keep an eye on this forum in the probably vain hope that SnapMaker decide to produce some decent documentation rather than relying on very enthusiastic users posting solutions to the problems that have come up once we’re past screwing the machine together.

I still haven’t tried the CNC head. Two reasons really, a) the problems I’ve already had with 3d printer bed adhesion and then the laser (non) cutting and, b) this room is already a bit of a mess and a spinning cutting head spraying dust and chips all round will probably make me run a mile! [Eeek]

[Mebyon]

Thanks for the informative link about Wifi channels. Just adds to my opinion that SnapMaker really haven’t got on board with the idea that their machine needs both hardware and software to actually function. The hardware side they really took pains over but the software, not so much. Documentation? Forget it!

Chris