CNC Shark Laser

[GWDawg1]

I'm trying to use the laser that came with my Shark HD4, and I'm not having much success. I've set up everything according to the New Wave documentation, when I get down to the final process after selecting the CNC Shark HD4 laser post processor, the output to machine checkbox is grayed out. Any suggestions?

[dvaskie127]

I usually just save the toolpath to a flash drive and run it from the pendant. Is your cnc connected to your computer? If not try connecting the USB and see if it is still grayed out.

[Adrian]

I don't see how the direct output can work with that post processor to be honest. The DIRECT_OUTPUT line which controls the interface to the Shark control panel is set to "" where I would expect some parameters in there according to the post processor documentation.

DIRECT_OUTPUT = "Display Name | Manufacturers.Document" The control software uses a document interface that can directly accept the NC file output.

As far as I can see from the New Wave documentation it should be:

DIRECT_OUTPUT = "CNCShark|CNCShark_run.ini"

[GWDawg1]

According to Vectric, this option is not available for the Shark. It has not been developed and been made available by Next Wave.

[Adrian]

Sounds like New Wave to change their documentation in that case...