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    Hello everybody,

    as a short introduction: HALaser Systems is a vendor of industrial laser marking solutions including software and scanner controllers (=DACs). Beside some others, one is the E1701A scanner controller card which is intended to be used with analogue scanheads. The hardware interface is compatible to the ILDA-standard. Because it is an industry-grade device, it offers some amazing features (USB and Ethernet connection, 100kHz mircrostep resolution, stand-alone operation, 16 bit DAC resolution,...) at a low price.

    And this is the reason why I'm posting here (so no, this is not just stupid spam), some people asked us about the possibility to use it for laser shows and/or to integrate it into existing laser show software. We already offer a compatibility library which simulates interfaces of some common laser-DAC's but this of course is only a somewhat limited solution.

    That's why we decided to give programmers a cheap and easy possibility to develop software which makes use of the E1701A DAC, a simulator which runs on a PC and can be accessed in exactly the same way like the real hardware. This simulator is described in manual from https://halaser.eu/e1701a_sim_manual.pdf, a description of the programming interface itself can be found in https://halaser.eu/e1701_manual.pdf.

    The software which contains this simulator is available for free:


    So whenever somebody is interested to integrate E1701A support in some laser show software, or to just have a look at its programming interfaces capabilities, this can be done very easy now. This is true especially for all open source projects, we also have published a lot of software as open source and are interested in supporting such projects.

    When there are any questions regarding this, feel free to contact us.

    And when this posting is located at a wrong sub-forum or is inappropriate in any other way, please let us know too, we definitely do not want to spread some spam (as said, laser show is not our business).

    Kind regards

    Michael
    Last edited by HALaser; 11-27-2016 at 21:11.

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    Hi Michael,

    will it simulate the E1701P (and -M) variants too?

    ... and by the way - some plans for a 3rd axis for the E1701P?

    Viktor

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    Hello Viktor,

    Quote Originally Posted by VDX View Post
    will it simulate the E1701P (and -M) variants too?
    No, it is only for E1701A, all other variants are not (yet) supported by this simulator.

    Quote Originally Posted by VDX View Post
    ... and by the way - some plans for a 3rd axis for the E1701P?
    Yes, firmware version 27 which is going to be released during next few days has support for three axes. libe1701p already contains the required function calls

    E1701P_jump_abs2(const unsigned char n,const int x,const int y,const int z);
    E1701P_mark_abs2(const unsigned char n,const int x,const int y,const int z);


    and support for the third axis will be added to BeamConstruct soon. So it will definitely happen this year :-)

    Kind regards

    Michael

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    Hi Michael,

    and support for the third axis will be added to BeamConstruct soon. So it will definitely happen this year :-)
    ... good to know

    Any idea if/when you can/will add simulation of the E1701P too?

    I have some plans for an alternative SLS-methode, where the -P could be a better alternative than -A or -D, so interested in development and simulation around it ...

    Viktor

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    Hi Viktor,

    an E1701P simulator is not yet planned, it would be somewhat more complicated than the E1701A variant. But we will think about it :-)

    Kind regards

    Michael

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    Hi Michael,

    ... it seems, I have to force this development to sell some of the SLS-systems to get some "momentum"

    Viktor

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