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LO-E5 CONTROLLER MANUAL
AnnexDepot Corp.
www.Lightobject.com

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  • Page 1 LO-E5 CONTROLLER MANUAL AnnexDepot Corp. www.Lightobject.com...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents What’s Included with LO-E5? LO-E5 DSP Control Panel LO-E5 Display Menu Introduction to LaserCAD v7 Software LaserCAD Main Interface LaserCAD Quick Start Work Space Advanced Functions Work Parameters 12-15 Manufacturer Parameters User Parameters Open/Save files and Importing & Exporting Creating Basic Graphics &...
  • Page 3 Layers Layer Parameters/Cut Parameters Laser Parameters /Engraving Machine Controls USB Connection Mode Transferring to Laser Machine CorelDraw/ AutoCAD Based Software 30-31...

  • Page 4: What's Included With Lo-E5

    What’s Included with the E5? USB cable plug to mount on side of Laser Machine. (1) USB 2.0 Extension cable (1)

  • Page 5: Lo-E5 Dsp Control Panel

    LO-E5 DSP Control Panel...

  • Page 6: Lo-E5 Display Menu

    LO-E5 Main Screen and Menu Button Settings Menu Button Settings Main Screen UDisk Files Axes Control Power: 10. 0 : 10.0% Common Params Speed: 200.0 Work Mode Cut Box Rotate Function Language To change parameter settings in this page, System Version press the enter button.
  • Page 7 1. UDisk Files: documents that were imported from the USB or computer that were saved on the machine. 2.Axes Control: Z Autofocus To Reset Z axis The setting that resets the Z-axis and U-axis. 3.Common Params: Jog (mm) Jog(mm): increments with each push FocusDis: FocusDis: the distance between the laser and cutting material.
  • Page 8 5. Cut Box: Start Cutting Blank Allows users to start cutting a box/blank. Rotate Rotate Axis 6. Rotate Function: Pulse Count Diameter Settings when using the rotary for round objects. 7. Language: Language Selects language used for machine 8. System Version: Name Version Displays System Name and Version...

  • Page 9: Introduction To Lasercad V7 Software

    Introduction to LaserCAD v7 Software Introduction: This system controls the laser CNC machine by computer and completes machining tasks according to different settings from the user. The system consists of a control system, control panel and compatible software. This manual is an introduction on how to use the software to complete machining tasks.

  • Page 10: Lasercad Main Interface

    LaserCAD Main Interface Menu Bar: Menu Bar includes 7 submenus: File, Edit, Draw, Tool, Options, View and Help. Toolbar: There are some functions completed by command buttons in the Toolbar. Most of these functions are sorted from menu bar. Object Bar: Allows selecting object during operation and relevant properties during using tool.

  • Page 11: Lasercad Quickstart

    LaserCAD QuickStart Open LaserCAD Open, draw, or import selected image onto LaserCAD that is going to be cut or engraved. Connect the USB-C from the computer to the laser machine. For the first time, to add and recognize the laser machine, press the “Select mode” button on the right side. Then click the “add”...

  • Page 12: Work Space

    Work Space Nudge Offset: Determines the distance that laser head moves when arrow buttons are pressed on control panel. Paste Offset: Offset distance when copying the offset distance of selected object. Language: Determines language used. Speed Unit: Determines the units of measure used in machine.

  • Page 13: Advanced Functions

    Advanced Functions Only use this tab only when using the rotational function on the laser machine. This is only for engraving on round/circular objects. Enable Rotate Engrave: If selected, will make the outputting data of common engraving to be automatic. Rotate axis con(um): When setting x-axis as the rotation axis, engraving method must be [one-way vertical] or shifted to rotate engrave data for it to...

  • Page 14: Work Parameters

    Work Parameters Curve Disperse: Curve smoothness setting. The smaller values set will increase accuracy, but reduce the speed. Circle Speed: The system will automatically recognize whether processing objects are circles. The speed limit, and the computation speed will affect the process speed. Generally, choose a small value for organic glass cutting.

  • Page 15: Manufacturer Parameters

    Manufacturer Parameters READ Click on this page before adjusting anything as shown on the right and save the settings. The Um/Pulse for the X-axis and the y-axis will be the main settings that will be adjusted. This is where you adjust the dimensions of the image to the expected value.
  • Page 16 Max Acceleration: Acceleration when axis increases or decreases movement. Too big of a setting may lead to motor losing steps or dither; too small of a setting may cause slow acceleration and then slow processing speed for whole image. For axis with big resistance, such as Y axis corresponding with beams, typical setting should be within in 800～3000mm/s2 ;...
  • Page 17 Laser Parameters Laser Mode: Choose the parameters according to the external laser. The current lasers are mainly 3 kinds: domestic glass tube, RF laser (don't need burning pulse) and radio frequency laser (needs burning pulse). TTL Level: Choose the parameters according to external laser power supply switch signals, AWC708 laser switch signals corresponds with Laser1.TTL and Laser2.TTL.
  • Page 18 Function configuration XY axis home On Power: If selected, when machine starts, X axis and Y axis will run reset movement simultaneously (Shall select the option normally) Z axis home On Power: If selected, when machine starts, Z axis will run reset movement (Shall not select the option normally) U axis home On Power: If selected, when machine starts, U axis will run reset movement.(Shall not select the option normally)

  • Page 19: User Parameters

    User Parameters Space Speed: During work, the max operation speed of laser head when laser off. The value range of this parameter is limited to Axis [Max Speed] of manufacturer parameter, shall not be bigger than max speed of the manufacture parameter. Start Speed: Start speed during processing, the value range of this parameter is limited to Axis.

  • Page 20: Open/Save Files And Importing & Exporting

    Open & Save Files The files used by the software is PWJ format. The pwj5 file saves the image information, all layer parameters, and all image elements processing sequence. By saving all imported image data as pwj5 format, it will make it easier for the image processing. Import &...

  • Page 21: Creating Basic Graphics & Editing Nodes

    Creating Basic Graphics & Editing Nodes Create Basic Graphics How to : ◆ Draw a straight line: Click [line] option in [Draw] menu, or click. Drag the mouse on screen to draw any line. Press “Ctrl“ key and drag the mouse at the same time to draw horizontal line. ◆...

  • Page 22: Selecting Objects

    Selecting Object During the process of drawing and editing a graphic, you first need to select an object. When an object is selected, there is a mark “×” in the center of the object, 8 control points around and profile color as “color of selected object.” Click “select”...

  • Page 23: Object Color, Object Transforming, Object Mirror, And Object Tilting

    Object color: allows users to click on any color in the layer bar to change object color. This makes it easier for those who want to cut/engrave only certain parts of an image. Object Transforming: is the operations to change the object's position, direction, size and such, and will not change the shape of the object and its character.
  • Page 24 Object Size: Most simple operation to zoom or change the size of objects is also using ,click the object, and move the control points around objects, then allows to zoom object. The operation is simple, direct but with low accuracy. Click and input horizontal size value and vertical size value in the text box，...

  • Page 25: Position Relative

    Position Relative Position relative: shows the position of laser head relative to figure. To access this, first click the “options“on the toolbar. Then click on Position relative. Following are diagrams with different positions of laser head relative to figure(cross point of two red lines instead of laser head):...

  • Page 26: Array Output Options

    Array Output Options Material width(X): Width of material to be dealt with(default as width of workbench) Click Options, then array output options. Material height(Y): Height of material to be dealt with(default Cell width(X): Original size of datum as width of workbench) Cell height(Y): Original size of datum Count: Rows and columns of datum to be output.

  • Page 27: Layers

    Layers Double Click on a layer to enter layer parameters.

  • Page 28: Layer Parameters/Cut Parameters

    Layer Parameters / Cut Parameters Layer: Indicates current layer need to be altered. Click left layer bar to switch to the layer need to be altered. Work mode: Includes “cut”,“engrave”,“cut after engraving”,“hole”, if current layer is BMP (like )it only includes “engrave”(It can be only used in engraving)。...

  • Page 29: Laser Parameters /Engraving

    Laser Parameters: Engraving Engraving Parameters: Speed: Scanning speed during engraving. Working power: Adjust size of laser power during processing layer.(Unit: Engrave gap: Gap between scanning line. Engrave mode: Includes “X_swing”, “X_ unilateralism”, “Y_swing”, “Y_unilateralism” X_swing: Laser head releases laser to scan image back and forth in horizontal direction.

  • Page 30: Machine Controls

    Machine Controls Machine control is to finish downloading of Image, starting & processing and some simple machine operation control. Origin: set the current laser head position as origin Start: start work for the current selected file in control panel Use/continue: click 【Use/continue】 to suspend or continue the work.

  • Page 31: Usb Connection Mode

    USB Connection Mode For the USB connection mode to work, the USB Driver has to be installed. This can be found in the setup when installing LaserCAD. To connect your computer to the laser machine, be sure that the USB-PC is plugged in first. Then on the right side of LaserCAD, press “Select Mode”...

  • Page 32: Transferring To Laser Machine

    Transferring to Laser Machine Download current file data (image data of software) to the machine Current documents options: means the options of document to be downloaded to main board. Name: document name to be downloaded to main board Work Times: the amount of times you want the task to be done. System will repeat the task of downloaded document automatically when started.

  • Page 33: Coreldraw/Autocad Based Software

    Coreldraw/AutoCAD Based Software For manual download of AWCLaserCut Tool, Click Menu > Tools > Macros> Run Macro or Macro.. Note: Only supports AutoCAD versions 2004-2008 / CorelDraw x6...
  • Page 34 After Run Macro is selected, this window below will appear. For [Macros in:] select the AWCCorel.gms / AWCAutoCAD.gms option. Then in the [Macro name:] above, select AWCLaserCut.AWCInit Once that is done, click [Run] and the AWCLaserCut tool will be added. These tools will be added that can be dragged into the toolbar by using the mouse.
  • Page 35 LOE5 01-2016 21 Blue Sky Court,Sacramento CA 95828 Phone: (916) 572- 6080 Fax: (916) 880- 5600...

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