I bought this specifically for contour cutting versus buying a month or week license of SignCut every time I need it, a few time a year.
To help speed things along, I did some port sniffing and research on the protocol.
Here is what I found:
When doing laser offset alignment, or "Test connection", nothing is actually sent to the plotter and the software usually locks up.
When doing contour cutting (print and cut), the alignment goes OK, but between alignment and cutting, it sends a new page command which sometimes leaves it saying "Waiting", or more often reboots the plotter.
If I capture the serial data from this whole process and remove new page command, "; !PG;" from the data and send the whole thing to the plotter, it duplicates all the registration mark alignment moves, then cuts the design as it should. The alignment is off though because the laser offset is not set. I can manually enter offset values, but it does not work as expected.
As for the 5 keystrokes before it moves, that is a plotter issue. Scalp3 is sending data for the keystrokes when the keys are pressed. Signcut did the exact same thing as well.
The CraftEdge folks have been doing an excellent job of resolving issues so far, hopefully they can use this info to get us LaserPoint 1 folks get up and running sooner.
Edit: This testing done with version 3.044
