RDPlug Plug-Ins Software ManualV6.0
RDPlug Plug-Ins Software ManualV6.0
RDPlug Plug-Ins Software ManualV6.0
1> Run
AutoCad2004/AutoCad2006/AutoCad2008/AutoCad2010/AutoCad2012/AutoCad2013.
2> Import grahic to AutoCad,or draw some。
1>Run Cadian2010
2>Import grahic to Cadian,or draw some.
Operating area
Control panel
Layer para: Depending on the graphics processing requirements layer configuration process
parameters.
Graphics Bar: Graphics property bar is the basic attributes of graphics operations, including
graphic location, size, scale, number processing.
In addition to installation process can set the software language type, you can easily switch in
different language.
Select
the desired
type of
language,
can easily
switch
between
different
languages.
To
obtain
manufacturers information, so that we can provide you with better service. Click Menu
Bar 【Help】->【About】.
2.4
Object
Selection
In the process of drawing and edit graphics,first of all is to select the object.
When the object is being selected,in the center of this object will have a shaped mark“ × ”,and
surrounded by eight control points.
Click menu【Select】, switch to status“Select”。Under this status, you can select object.
The following are five kinds of method of selecting:
◆ Shortcuts Ctrl+A, select all objects。
◆ Increased select
object/minus select object
Increase select:Press “Shift” key, click or box select to increase select object.
Minus select:Press “Shift” key, click or box select the selected object.
Right-
click the
selected
layer, then
the part of
all objects
in the layer
will be
selected.
You can also use the right transformation tools to transform and copy the graphics.
Edit graphics, and sometimes need to be a part of the operation as a whole (such as multi-line
text layout).
Method: Select the group of graphics, and then select the menu 【 Edit 】 / 【 Group 】
(【UnGroup 】).
◆ Polyline
Click menu【Polyline】。Drag the mouse on the screen you can draw an arbitrary polyline.
◆ Rectangle
Click menu 【 Rectangle 】 。 Drag the mouse on thescreen you can draw an arbitrary size
rectangle.
Press the “Ctrl” key while dragging the mouse to draw square.
◆ Ellipse
Click menu【Ellipse】。Drag the mouse on the screen you can draw an arbitrary size ellipse.
Press the “Ctrl” key while dragging the mouse to draw round.
◆ Point
Click menu【Ellipse】. Click the mouse on the screen, you can draw an point.
2.12 Important Tool
Here are some frequently used tools. Using these important tools, can make the current
document in the graphics more orderly, and make the processing of output more fast.
2.12.1 Manual sorting and the set of cutting point and the cutting direction
Software provides users a convenient tool for the manual sorting. Select 【Edit】->【Set
cutting property 】 . Cutting property dialog box will pop up. All with manual sorting, and cut
points, cutting the direction of the settings in this dialog box can be completed.
1> Show path
First check the “show path”, it will display the current graphics cutting order and the cutting
direction.
Enter
the serial
number
directly in
the
processing
number,
then press
the
keyboard
“Enter” key,
or click the plot area, the cutting order will be changed.
Drawing or importing curves, the curve is default not have any cut in/cut out lines.
If want to add cut in/cut out lines,select the objects,then click【Cut property】->【Edit cut in
property】.The following dialog box is appear.
Cut in line
shown in the following figure
Female Male
For some less accuracy curves, this function can make curves more smoothness, and
processing smoother.
Click menu【Tool】->【Curve Smooth】,the following dialog box appears。
Drag the smooth slider, and click button【Apply】,before smooth and after smooth curves
will all show in the dialog。
The black curves represent the original curves, and the red curves represent after smooth
curves.
You can view the graphics with drag mouse.
You can zoom in/zoom out the graphics with scroll wheel.
Click button【FullFrame】,graphics will shown in the dialog box for largest.
After get satisfied smoothing effect,click button【Apply】,curves will processing smooth
according to smoothness settings.
Select “Direct smooth” , you can use another smoothing method.
The choice of smoothing method should be changed with the needs of the actual graphic.
Under normal
circumstances do not select
the “Enable Overlap
error”. Removing the
overlapping lines when
two lines are compared to
a good degree of
coincidence. If you need to delete overlapping lines, you should select “Enable Overlap error”,
and set overlap error. Generally do not overlap error set too large, so as to avoid accidental
deletion.
The software
automatically merge
curves in the selected
curves, when these
curves merge tolerance
is less than the setting of
combine error.
2.12.7 Bitmap Handle
In the top right of the dialog box displays the information of the current image.
Be noted that,the horizontal resolution and vertical resolution is changing with drag scaling.
【 Apply to view 】 : Current settings is only used for preview, without affecting to the
original bitmap,press button【Cancel】,bitmap will returned to the state of original image.
Therefore, only use for adjust effect. However, this approach requires more time and memory
Space.
【Apply to source】:Current sttings is use for orginal bitmap directly,so even finally click
button【Cancel】,image will also unable to return to the original image. Therefore, it mainly used
in multi-step operation,and the current operation of this step is necessary to do, such as general
pictures must be transformed into grayscale. This can save the computing time of the follow-up
operation.
【Save as】:Retain the results of the previous operation, In addition to using【Apply to
view】can also be exported。On this basic, to facilitate subsequent processing.
【 Gray scale 】 Generally, other image processing is based on the grayscale , so before
handling, you can do a grayscale processing, then click button 【 Apply to source 】 。 For the
grayscale than the color image occupied smaller memory,for large image step by step handle, to
a certain extent to avoid the lack of memory.
For color image, adjust contrast and brightness, have some auxiliary effect to following
dither processing.
Adjust contrast:
There are three method for dither processing: Net graphic、Dot graphic、Black and white
1> Net graphic
Net graphic need adjust net size ,better suited to material which is not high resolution ,or
the laser is relatively slow to respond.
To get the appropriate net size, you can adjust resolution and net frequency of the image.
The higher resolution, the more delicate.
The higher net frequency,the smaller net size.The lower net frequency, the bigger net size.
Generally, resolution of image is 500 - 1000, and net frequency is 30-40lines.
Get outline:
Click “Get outline” button to extract the contour graph. As following picture
2.12.9 Processing preview
Click menu【Preview】
Software supports the preview of the documents to be processed, and you can get some basic
information through the preview. For example, the path of the actual output of the processing,
general processing time, processing the distance. The machining process can be simulated.
In addition to the current edited file preview, you can also preview the files have been saved
as rd.
You can preview the color of graphics to match the actual output of energy. Users can easily
view whether the layer energy is true.
Chpater 3 System Settings
Before output graphics,required to determine whether the system settings are correct.
3.1.1 Path
optimize
1> Original
or edit path
Selected
by the
original
path or edit
the path,
press the
original drawing graphics output to the machine processing the order.
If the order by layer, from inside to outside and other optimization methods are useless.
Generally do not choose the property; in a very large number of graphics output, the choice of
this property without having to wait for the software algorithm processing time.
Click OK , software
can automatically calculate
the appropriate numbers of
rows and columns.
3.1.3 Rotate
Engraving
3.1.5 Position
Setting the laser head back location after processing completed.(Current position 、Original
anchor、Machine Zero.
Current Position : Laser head back to the position before processing.
Original anchor : Laser head back to the last anchor ,the anchor may set at panel.
Machine zero : Laser head back to the zero of the machine.
After check Output select graphics , then only output the selected part, rather than not
output the part not selected.
3.2 General settings
3.2.1
Small
Circle
Speed
Limit
On
processing
work , the
software
automatically determine whether the current round need to limit speed ,then according to the
diameter size of the circle to determine the speed. If parameter configuration appropriate ,will
greatly enhance the quality of small round. Click button【Add】,【Delete】, 【Modify】 to
configuration.
Small circle is less than speed of the rules limiting the list of small round circle of minimum
radius, minimum radius circle at the speed of the output of the corresponding.
If the speed greater than maximum speed limit list the speed round, the speed only associated
with the speed of the layer.
If the speed is in the list, set the output speed by list.
If the request received by limiting layer parameters faster than the speed set in the layer, press
the speed of the output layer.
Laser scanning graphic way, because the relationship between the machine belt tension may
cause the edge of the scanned graphics uneven. Therefore, increasing backlash to fix. It has the
specific backlash for the certain speed. General, the greater the speed, the greater the backlash.
① Add backlash
Click the Add button, the screen will pop up as shown in Figure
③ Remove backlash
Right-click scanning
(reverse gap) block in the
backlash to delete the item, then click the【Delete】button.
3.3.1 Cut
parameters
x Start Speed, y
Start Speed: Off scanning
speed in the use of stepper
motor drag, do not began
to accelerate from 0, but
can start work directly
from a speed to shorten the
overall processing time, but the speed is not too high, and because the X, Y axial load is different
from the rate, general the initial speed of X-axis slightly higher than the initial speed of Y-axis
x Acc, y Acc: With the scanning speed (the speed of layers in the layer parameters) to match,
if set too small, the scan speed to a longer distance, the scanning efficiency. The machine can be
set according to the actual structure, load conditions vary. Since X, Y axis load, generally much
higher than the X-axis Y-axis accelerometer.
Line shift speed of scanning: this parameter is specially used to control the max. speed of
the scanning to shift vertically from one line to the next line below it. If during the scanning, the
line space is too large or the block space is too large when scanning block figures while precise
positioning for each line or block is required, you can set the line shirt speed of scanning to a
comparatively low value. This parameter cannot be less than the jump-off speed of the
corresponding axis during the line shift and cannot be higher than the max. speed of the
corresponding axis during the line shift, if the setting is illegal, the controller will automatically
set this parameter within the range above.
Scan mode: There are two modes for your selection: the general mode and the special mode,
in the general mode, there’s no any treatment during the scan, in the special mode, light spots will
be treated. If the special mode is activated, the power of the laser should be increased and
correspondingly, the light spot percentage will be lower and the laser power attenuation will be
higher, to achieve the same depth of scanning, the laser power should be higher. The purpose to
select the special mode is to make the laser to emit beams at high power and in short period,
during deep scanning, the effect of flat bottom can be achieved, however,
if the light spots are improperly adjusted, this effect may not be achieved and the working mode of
high power and short period may influence the service life of the laser. The default mode is the
general mode.
Facula Size: When scanning the general pattern of selection, the argument is invalid, when
you select a special mode, the onset of the parameters. Control the parameters of control in 50% to
99%, respectively.
Go scale mode:
Points of light to go off
the border, the opening cut borders, corners three modes.
Go scale blank: Walking frame can be based on the actual image size up and down again
about the direction of some of the white left side of the border in order to ensure complete
contains the actual graphics.
This setting is on the control panel to go with the border-related functions, while walking on
the border with the independent software.
3.3.5 Other parameters
Generally, Axis direction of mirror is based on the actual location of the limit or home of machine.
The default coordinate system if Descartes coordinate system, and zero in the bottom left. If
the zero point of the machine is top left, then X-Axis do not need to mirror, but Y-Axis need to
mirror. If the zero point of the machine is top right, then both X-Axis and Y-Axis are all need to
mirror.
More convenient way is to view the graphical display area if the location coordinates and
arrow on your machine the actual position of the same origin. If not, then modify the direction of
the mirror. If the arrow appears in the upper left corner coordinates, and the origin in the upper
right corner of your machine, you just need to check both the X mirror.
Position of Laser head means the location laser head relative to the graphic.
Top Left Top Middle Top Right
3.3.8 Absolute
1> Read
Click
button
Read , the
software
will
communications with the controller,read the list of files on the controller.
After read controller successful ,file information will be displayed in the document list.
2> Download
Click button Download,will pop up the file dialog , select *.rd downloaded file, then the file
will be downloaded to the controller.
If the download is successful, the document list will update.
3> Process
Select the file to be processed from the document list ,and click button Process
The controller will start the specified document。
4> Delete
Select the file you want to delete from the document list,and click button Delete
The controller will delete the specified document.
If the deletion is successful ,the document list will be updated.
7> Upload
Upload the selected file which is on the motherboard to PC.
3.5 Manual
Axis
control, can
only control
one axis
each time.
You can set
the
information
for axis move, including move length、speed、laser on-off and laser power.
If you check “Move from origin”, then the offset you set means the offset to machine zero.
If you not check move from origin, then the offset means the offset to the current position.
The X-axis, for example, assuming the current position is 100mm, such as the step distance is
set to 10mm, then the exercise once, the new location will be 110mm, such as the check moves
from the origin, movement time, the new location will be 10mm, and repeated Movement,
location will no longer change.
Note: According to the provisions of the controller, the absolute position is no negative
in the whole breadth. If you check the Move From Origin, and set the offset value negative,
then the machine will hit limiter.
3.6 Info
1> Total
on
time:
The
total
time of
motherboard working
2> Total processing time: The total time of processing ,including the time of jump moving.
3> Previous processing time: The time of the last processing
4> Total laser on time: The time of the laser processing
5> Total processing times: The number of completed processing, not include the processing
forcing to end.
6> X total travel: The total travel of motor X.
7> Y total travel: The total travel of motor Y.
Motherboard version: The version of the current controller.
4.1
Device port
USB:
If the
computer only
connected one
device , you can
set to Auto 。 The
software will
automatically
search the device.If the computer connected many devices, then first of all you need to
click【Search】.After search, the connected devices will all add to the drop-down list.
What you need to do is select the specified device.
Earthnet:
If the computer only connected one device , you can set to default 。 If the computer
connected many devices, all you need to click【Search】.After search, the connected devices will
all add to the drop-down list.
For Example Go Scale, As the following figure shown, the actual graphic is round, and the
red rectangle outside the circle is the smallest rectangle, click button Go Scale, laser head will run
once along the rectangular path.
4.3 Start、Pause、Stop、SaveToUFile、UFileOutput、Download
UFileOutput:
Output the offline file (RD format)
After save offline file, click UfileOutput to select rd file to processing.
Download:
Download the file to the memory of the controller , then user can start the file through the
machine panel.
Double-
click the
layer that
you want to
edit in the
layer list,
layer
parameters
dialog box
will pop up.
Layer parameters in two parts, part of the common layer parameters, namely, how both types of
processing layers, the layer parameter are valid. The other part is the proprietary layer parameters.
Namely, when change the layer type of processing, the corresponding parameters will change.
4.4.1
Common
Layer
Parameters
Setting
Layer:
Software use
layer to
distinguish
processing
graphics
parameters of
different layers.
The scan
processing
methods, a
number of the bitmap in the same layer, the overall output as a picture, if you want to separate out
all the bitmap, the bitmap can be placed into different layers.
Is Output: There are two options: Yes and No. Select Yes, the corresponding layer will be
exported for processing; Select No, the corresponding layer will be not exported for processing.
Speed: The speed of laser processing.
In terms of cutting speed, the better the processing effect is and the smoother the track is; the
faster the speed is, the worse the processing effect is;
On the scanning process, the more slowly, the same energy the deeper the next scan, scan
traces thickening, scanning resolution accordingly reduced. Faster to scan the same energy the
more shallow depth, detail distortion increases.
On the dot process, the main change is the speed of moving air.
If you check the "default", the actual speed of the speed set by the panel to decide.
Is blowing: If the machine add a fan, and fan has been enabled, then if the selection is "Yes",
then when processing the layer, it will open the fan, otherwise, will not open fan. If the fan is not
enabled, you either select "yes" or "No", are meaningless.
Processing mode: Processing mode, meaning the mode to process corresponding layer.
If you select vector layer (color layer) currently, there are three options: Laser scanning, Laser
cutting and Laser dotting;
If you select bitmap layer (BMP layer) currently, there is only one option: Laser scanning.
Laser1, Laser2: Laser signal corresponding to the board 1 channel and 2-way laser output. If a
single head machine, the first 2-way laser meaningless.
Min power, Max power: The range of power value is 0~100, it means the intensity of laser during
the process; the higher the value is, the stronger the laser is, and the lower the value is, the weaker
the laser is.
Processing for different types have different meaning.
The cutting process, the actual power is compared with the cutting speed to follow, the speed of
low energy is also low, high-speed energy is high, so as to ensure the energy evenly throughout the
cutting process. Therefore, the speed of minimum power corresponding to the lowest energy, the
minimum speed is usually 0, but if you set a minimum speed of take-off speed of the take-off speed;
maximum power corresponds to the layer speed.
How to set proper Min power and Max power:
If the laser is too strong during the whole process, you should set the minimum and maximal
power lower, otherwise, set them higher;
If the laser is too weak in some places during the process, you should set the maximal power
higher;
If the laser is too strong in some places during the process, you should set the minimum
power lower.
If it is cut through, the minimum power and maximum power was no significant difference
can be set to the same.
On the scanning process, general scanning, minimum power and maximum power must be
consistent. Carving slope, the minimum power corresponds to the top of the slope of the power,
maximum power corresponds to its base of power.
Minimum power is top of the partial width is too small, the details at the Resolution unclear.
Minimum power is too large then the slope is not obvious.
Top
Bottom
On the laser dot process, the minimum power and maximum power can be set to the same.
If you check the "default", the actual power to set the power from the panel to determine.
Click the button "Advanced", you can also set other layer parameters.
Pen Up and Down:
If the machine has
been installed lift platform,
and requires a high degree
on different platforms for
processing, you can the
function of Pen up and
down.
This position
corresponds to pen up is the
height at which the
platform for processing,
carrying the pen position is
empty, take the
corresponding before, the
platform should be moved
to the laser head height which then pan will not produce interference with the workpiece to be
processed. If the pan does not confirm the laser head to produce interference with the workpiece to
be processed, you can not lift the pen position set.
Method:
1> Enable pen up and down.
2> The position of pen down: Manual control panel key mobile platform to be graphic
processing Graphics processing plane, adjusting the focus. Then the button "read", you can
set the position of pen down.
3> The position of pen up: Manual control panel key mobile platform, move to the laser head
does not interfere with the workpiece height and moving the laser head through the panel
button to confirm no interference, click the button "read", you can set the position of pen
up.
Dot:
Dot here is specifically for the point drawing tools to draw primitives, or imported from a dxf
file, point primitives. And independent of the current way of processing layers, namely, whether the
current layer is cut or a scan, pixel graphics of the dot to dot mode is always output.
The speed of dot is the speed of layer, and the energy of dot is the maximum energy of the
layer.
Enable laser:
When the machine is equipped with two lasers, under normal circumstances, is two
simultaneous output
However, users can also be enabled by setting the laser to make them all the way is not output.
4.4.2 Laser Scan Parameters Setting
The left side of the dialog box to set the parameters for the vector scan, the right of the dialog
box, a bitmap scan parameters.
Scan of the vector data do not support Negative Engrave, Optimized Scan, Output direct.
Negative engrave: If you do not select Negative engraving, the black dots which run across the
bitmap will emit laser and the white dots which run across the bitmap will not. If you select Negative
engraving, the white dots which run across the bitmap will emit laser and the black dots which run across
the bitmap will not.
Optimized scan: If you select Optimized scan, it will adjust users’ setup of Scanning interval
automatically to the best values and optimize the scanning effect. Otherwise, we should select
Scanning interval as set by the user for scanning. We generally select the Optimized scanning.
Output direct: On the grayscale bitmap, grayscale graphics for the actual output, where both
the deep color of the laser energy, laser energy where light color small.
Ramp effect: If you select Ramp effect, it can make the track edges of scanned figures
presented as ramp in order to attain solid effect.
Overstriking: Includes Un-process, Intaglio and rilievi. General select Un-process.
Scan the font is the font that is part of the scan, which is the font intaglio.
Scan the bottom of the bottom part of the scan, which is the font rilievi.
Note: select the ramp effect, set the font bold choose not to deal with. Otherwise, it will
affect the ramp effect.
Y_unilateralism: The laser head scans figures back and forth vertically, but only emit laser toward
one direction. For example, the laser head emits laser when scanning from the top
down, but not emits laser when scanning from the bottom up.
Y_swing: The laser head emits laser and scans figures back and forth vertically.
Note: We generally adopt the scanning mode of X_swing.
Interval: The interval between the current line and the next line to be scanned by the laser head.
The smaller the interval is, the darker the scanned figures is; If reverse, the weaker.
Recommendation: ① The scanning interval is set below 0.1mm for vector layer (color layer)
in general. ② The scanning interval is set above 0.1mm for bitmap layer (BMP layer) in
general, and then the Minimum power and Maximum power should be changed to attain the
perfect effect of the scanned figures.
Using the
slit width
compensation
can compensate Seal cutting has not closed the graphics
for the offset appear the case is closed, you can
compensate with the seal to close, but if
between the the seal is misplaced, you can not
graphics and the compensate, you can use 4.9.5
optimization backlash compensation to
actual output compensate, or to use the user parameter
graphics that in the Backlash compensation .
caused by laser
cutting.
It only has
effective for the Open delay
closed graph.
Direction: Close delay
Compensation
Through mode
direction is set according to actual needs, such as cutting a circle, if you want to retain the cutting
down of the circle, you should set out the direction of compensation; If you want to keep the hole
should be set to compensate for the inward direction.
Sew width: it is the width of the laser.
Parameters
Setting
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