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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by thefabricator03 on March 06, 2021, 03:29:07 am »

Yeah I have been trying to get Laserboy to export one of my DXF files to my projector but cant figure out why the projector wont project the image.

I cant even get the default Laserboy DXF files to export and show on my projector,  I can output ILDA files and view them on the projector but not DXF. Do you have any idea of what I could try?

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by James on March 04, 2021, 06:13:17 pm »

I'm assuming you are aware that LaserBoy reads and writes a reasonable subset of dxf.

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by thefabricator03 on March 04, 2021, 03:24:29 pm »

Yeah I have, they are very helpful.
My goal is to set up my projector to project DXF templates for marking out steel assemblies. I will need to have custom software written for my application, as in to simplify the workflow from our CAD program to the workshop floor. I am sure Laserboy will help my programmers out with an example of how the software should be done. I plan to make my completed program open source as well. I have benefited from the open source community of LinuxCNC for many years and I want to give something back.
Thanks again for your software!

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by James on March 04, 2021, 10:52:06 am »

Thanks!


Have you checked out any of the YouTube tutorials?

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by thefabricator03 on March 04, 2021, 05:48:25 am »

Thanks for that James, it was indeed the issue.
Also thanks for your hard work in creating this software. It is a pretty neat program!

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by James on March 03, 2021, 10:36:25 pm »

It is most likely that the images are 2D but stored as 3D on the card that came with your projector.  Are the files .ild or .ctn? If they are .ild they are most likely ilda format 0. That will open just fine in LaserBoy but if the image is actually 2D when you save it from LaserBoy it will be ilda format 1. If you look in menu x from main you can force LaserBoy to save 2D images as 3D. Try that and let me know.

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LaserBoy !!! / Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by thefabricator03 on March 03, 2021, 05:37:23 am »

Hi all,
I have just brought a laser projector that comes with a SD card with stored images and I can get the stored images to work fine but when I create a image using Laserboy, it will not display the image.
I have tried importing a ILDA file from the SD card into Laserboy and exporting it again and the image will not work. I am thinking I need to change some settings for my projector?

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Finally some LaserBoy tutorials!

« Last post by James on November 10, 2020, 07:18:18 pm »

Thank you Yair. I really appreciate that!

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Finally some LaserBoy tutorials!

« Last post by yair on November 10, 2020, 01:02:26 pm »

thank you James for laserboy,
and the tutorial sure helps.


such an amazing project!

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LaserBoy !!! / Finally some LaserBoy tutorials!

« Last post by James on October 20, 2020, 07:21:19 pm »

Check out my LaserBoy YouTube Playlist for a series of videos about using LaserBoy.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jNNJiddsJWPdauON6o-shp7lZCEhd4M