To go through and infill every single enclosed area in these small complex designs would be a nightmare, as I’d have to trace over the design with small boxes and other shapes in LaserDRW, well nigh impossible to do accurately and VERY tedious.Įven though the process above seems rather Neanderthal it does give me parts the correct size, it’s just that the machine insists on cutting twice. Its rather clunky but since LaserDRW won’t import dxf files directly it’s the only way I can get what want cut to the right dimensions. So I export them as bitmaps from my CAD software and then get the correct size by referencing them against a dimension line that I draw in LaserDRW, with some trial and error. I wish I could import them as dxf files but that’s not possible in LaserDRW. On the solid infill, that’s tricky for my designs as they are derived from CAD files of complex shapes. The ‘hairline setting’, is that an instruction, and where is it? If you have a screenshot of the recommended setting and dialog box I’d appreciate it. So what I had said earlier works in CorelLaser.Thanks for the replies. And in corel I use the WFM interpreter in the data settings. This software is poorly documented, has a terrible user interface, and non-intuitive, but it works. I do a lot of my designs in Inkscape and export as WMF for corelLaser. This tutorial explains how to use LaserDrw a common stand alone control software for cheap Chinese laser engravers. Most programs will let you hold a hotkey while dragging a rotation to make it snap to 45 degree increments (usually ctrl+mouse1 drag to rotate or shift+mouse1 drag) But if you just want to rotate one object not the whole design I suggest using Corel or something else like Inkscape or AI. If you just want your whole design to be engraved or cut at 90,-90,180,mirrored there is an option in the engraving manager (Rotate) its normally set on do nothing. Might be good for bringing designs into it for lasing. It doesn’t seem like the best program for design. Only thing I found was if you create a star shape with the star tool, the object properties dialog has a rotate option but the other shapes do not. Just opened it up and I can’t find any options for rotating an object. Oh sorry I was looking at Corel, I haven’t used LaserDRW much. +Jim Bennell are you sure that is laserdrw I don’t see them when I just checked Or press Alt+F8 to pull up the rotate dialog. You can also select an object, go to the top- Object menu pull down, Then Transformations and select Rotate. When you have an object or shape selected, at the top of the program you will see X and Y coordinates then the size of the shape and then you will see a box with angle of rotation you can set. Yes I have been able to rotate text and images but not shapes not for sure what I am doing wrongĪh I see what you mean - There may be a check box that makes the frees the shape to be rotated instead of drawn snapped to the grids. For text - its much easier, select text, enter your text in the text window then when done click on the work area, you will see the text box being drawn you can move the cursor at an angle and box will be drawn at that angle with text in it. On the outline of the graphic box - each line has a little box, try grabbing the right hand box and pulling it down, the box should rotate. When I import an image the box the image is in is aligned with the margin of the work area. +greg greene I want it at an angle can’t figure out how or if it is possible Sure - grab one of the little boxes on the outline of the shape and move it around on the screen till the shape is in the alignment you want (ie place the pointer on the box on the bottom line and drag it up and over the top line to flip shape upside down) Is there a way to rotate a shape in laserdrw
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