txturbo

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  1. That’s when I was using my laptop with the USB connection. Now I have an old desktop hooked up to it with a serial connection. I’m trying to set it up to work as a plotter so I can cut directly from Autocad or Fusion 360. If I can get it to show up as a plotter I should be able to make it work.
  2. I did that and nothing happens. The cutter shows up in windows devices and I see the job in the que but no response from the cutter.
  3. Ok I’m back at it. I’ve dusted off my old desktop PC that has a serial port and hooked the cutter up to it. I installed SBE. I can go into windows device manager and can see the cutter. Only problem I have now is drivers. When I open the US Cutter folder and select the laser point cutter and try to install the drivers it says it can’t find a driver for this machine.
  4. Ok. I guess I’ll try that next. I have an old computer that has a serial port. I guess I could set that up just for cutting.
  5. Will it show up with a serial connection?
  6. Will it show up with a serial connection?
  7. I guess what I really need to figure out is how to get my vinyl cutter to show up in windows as a plotter. I can send files directly to large format plotters which use the hpgl format. But when I try to plot a design my vinyl cutter isn’t showing in my list of available printers/plotters.
  8. No it isn’t. I downloaded Inkscape a couple of days ago but haven’t tried it yet. That was next on my list. I was trying not to add another software between steps. The design software can export G-code for 3D printers and CNC but not a vinyl cutter or graphics format.
  9. That’s part of the problem. EPS isn’t an option when I export or save it.
  10. I think I have it figured out now. I was saving as a dxf file and was getting a blank file when I imported into SBE. Just took me awhile to find the right settings.
  11. Does the laser point use HPGL or something different? I’m want to cut directly From Fusion 360 or Autocad.
  12. Cutter seems to be ok now. I haven’t used it for at least 6 years, so I have to learn all over again. I’m not cutting vinyl This time though. I want to cut gaskets. Has anyone done that before?
  13. I have a mill.....I could make that out of aluminum.
  14. making progress. I went back in to change comm ports in SB and scrolled all the way to the bottom and found one called Blazer COM4- USB serial port. Never saw that one before. Selected that one and now I get a response from the cutter.
  15. Ok....what windows added was just the usb serial converter, not the actual cutter. So I need to still get windows to find my cutter.