Laser: True grayscale instead of dithering?

[jepho]

Try a 30 day free trial of Lightburn. Works fine on a Mac. Baud rate with my SM1 was 115, 200. Lightburn filetype is .gc. Change it to .nc and it will run on Snapmaker from a USB stick.

SM1 Laser (1600 mW) and working with Lightburn

Hello all; please excuse what will be a lengthy post so it will appear in stages. I finally found enough time to spend some of it with the application (Lightburn) that was written exclusively for laser users. My first issue was getting it to talk to SM1 but I suspect that the difficulty connecting was mine on two fronts. I could not get Lightburn to accept or pass on any commands to SM1 via my Macbook Pro. It needed the USB/Serial port connected before opening the application. There may be a wa…