Inserting pauses in LSR file ?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

How would you go about inserting pauses in the LSR file for DED simulation (Netfabb 2023.0), in particular in-between layers ?

I have tried to include lines in the LSR file representing a zero length path with laser power turned off and a positive time that represents the duration of the pause, but I get the following warnings and thus the pauses seem to be ignored :

*** CRITICAL WARNING: 2
 Code 1012
Laser line has zero length
Line: 133 (%2 with comments) ignored

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[michael.gouge]

Hello Stephane,

It's great to hear you are using our DED capabilities. Each line of the LSR file has the start time of that laser vector. So to insert a pause you would just need to add the desired time to the start time of the laser vector right after the pause. For an LSR file made in PowerMill, Netfabb, or Fusion360 is this best done with a spreadsheet if there is a consistent pause at the end of each line or just one big pause as in the case of a machine shutoff. If it's more complicated than that I recommend running it through python/matlab/scilab to adjust the timings with a script.

Best,

Michael

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello Michael,

I am using a script to edit the LSR file based on machine gcode. I tested what you suggested and it does work so thank you !

Best regards,

Stéphane