No more "power-on delay" setting?

[rafzan]

Hello again!

I use this extension with my 4xiDraw plotter. In my opinion it's the best software option by far.

The problem is that the pen-up/down mechanism is controlled by a micro-servo which is orders of magnitude slower than any laser device. The 0.92 extension had a nice power-on/off delay setting which stopped the carriage, waited for the pen to go up/down and then resumed the walking. Without this setting, this happens:

The dwell time before moving does not fill this condition. It adds the G4 commands in bad places for my situation.
A solution was adding G4 P0.5 after m3 and m5 commands directly to the code. Gcode doesn't seem to recognize them when I add directly to the Tool Power/Off Command inputs, as they have to go inline in the code.

I don't know if this extension is intended for plotter usage, but it fits my needs really well apart from this. Should I suggest a solution and make a pull request?

[superfluent]

Same problem for me (as probably any other drawbot user) so +1

[PadLex]

I think someone implemented that feature in the main branch but I haven't tested it enough to create a new release. If anyone is curious you could try cloning the repo and see if it works for you. Otherwise the older releases are still there.

[Corgano]

Crap I ran into this same issue, was hoping someone had a solution :/

[Jodaille]

Hello,
it seems ok on main branch.

I have just cloned the repository, and put laser.inx laser.py files
in /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/laser directory

with latest version of svg_to_gcode:
https://github.com/PadLex/SvgToGcode/tree/master/svg_to_gcode

Gcode output sample:
`
G90;

M5;

M5;

G21;

G4 P0.5

M5;

G1 F3000.0 X42.788652 Y123.524713;

M3 S3000;

G1 F750.0 X34.239848 Y100.590852;

G1 X51.368658 Y100.590852;

G1 X42.788652 Y123.524713;

G4 P0.5

M5;
`

[Zackariyya]

I had this issue too, so I cloned and edited this repo and added the power-on delay setting under "Advanced Settings"
It's called "Tool Up Delay" and "Tool Down Delay"
You can check it out here :
https://github.com/RZItech/RZI-Inkscape2Plotter