Just Add Sharks Blacknose A3, User Manual

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LaserCut 5.3 Software
Introduction
LaserCut 5.3 is a dedicated piece of laser cutter control software written by
Leetro Automation Co Ltd
​
. It is used to prepare cutting files that are sent to the
Leetro MPC6515
​
controller on board the laser cutter. LaserCut has some basic
drawing functions but it becomes most useful when
​
dxf files
​
are created by
other drawing packages, such as the free, cross platform, open source vector
editing package
​
Inkscape
​
, and then imported into LaserCut.
Lasercut provides functions to simulate the cutting process that is about to
occur and estimate how long the cut will take. All the information about a job
can be saved and loaded from file making it easy to store and repeat jobs in
the future.
System Requirements
●
A computer running Windows 2000/XP/7 or 8
●
2 free USB ports
●
Known to run happily on systems with 2 Gb of RAM
●
50 Mb disk space (installation)
●
Disk space needed while in use will vary depending on complexity of
work
Communicating to the Laser Cutter
A job may be uploaded from the computer using LaserCut. Once uploaded no
further communication with the computer is required to perform the job and it
may be shut down or disconnected if required. Jobs can also be transferred to
the machine via a USB stick using the USB port on the right side of the cutter.
The
​
Soft Dog
​ USB Dongle
To enable full functionality in Lasercut 5.3, a USB
dongle known as the
​
Soft Dog
​ is required. A Soft
Dog is supplied with the Blacknose laser cutter.
When installing LaserCut, do not connect the Soft
Dog to the computer until instructed to do so.
When running LaserCut, the Soft Dog should be
plugged in before LaserCut is started.
Without the Soft Dog, it is still possible to run the demo version of LaserCut,
although it has limited functionality .
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Specifically, the ​
Save
​ feature of the program is disabled, and it will not communicate with
a laser cutter.