Image out of limits
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:09 pm
I have finished my upgrade from stock K40 to X7 DSP with Z-Table, and all the little extras, thanks to everyone. I even made the first set of engraves, a project for my wife. That was some simple text on balsa wood. Simple design I created in RayCam.
Now on to one the things I want to do with it. I want to create PCB designs. I have the design in BMP format. I wrote a little java app to outline the traces, worked great. Now I want to load it into RayCam, so I imported it. I downloaded it to the DSP over COM port, I see the design on the screen. But when I hit start, I get an out of limit error. How do I fix that?
Can I set the origin relative to the image?
"Engrave Beyond Limit."
I have the um set correctly as well.
No matter where I move it in the drawing space in RayCam I get the out of limits. Its like 66 mm x 33 mm.
I even took the original trace BMP and used RayCams outline. Then deleted the original bmp. That works, kind of. I get the out of limits warning, continue? If I continue it draws about 1/2 of it on the left side of the work space. So I get the right 1/2 of the pcb engraved. The outline feature doesn't carve enough paint from the pcb.
Either way I've been looking to figure out how to set the origin relative to what I want to engrave. I have the 9 box set to the upper left and I see the blue dot in the upper left. I have my origin set to x = 0 y = 40, and even if I set the orgin on the machine to x=70, y = 40 it still goes back to the orginal location and engraves exactly the same.
Now on to one the things I want to do with it. I want to create PCB designs. I have the design in BMP format. I wrote a little java app to outline the traces, worked great. Now I want to load it into RayCam, so I imported it. I downloaded it to the DSP over COM port, I see the design on the screen. But when I hit start, I get an out of limit error. How do I fix that?
Can I set the origin relative to the image?
"Engrave Beyond Limit."
I have the um set correctly as well.
No matter where I move it in the drawing space in RayCam I get the out of limits. Its like 66 mm x 33 mm.
I even took the original trace BMP and used RayCams outline. Then deleted the original bmp. That works, kind of. I get the out of limits warning, continue? If I continue it draws about 1/2 of it on the left side of the work space. So I get the right 1/2 of the pcb engraved. The outline feature doesn't carve enough paint from the pcb.
Either way I've been looking to figure out how to set the origin relative to what I want to engrave. I have the 9 box set to the upper left and I see the blue dot in the upper left. I have my origin set to x = 0 y = 40, and even if I set the orgin on the machine to x=70, y = 40 it still goes back to the orginal location and engraves exactly the same.