We're also working on another option - it's still being tested, but should be available soon, and will allow you to use WIFI to talk to a Ruida controller without any communication dropouts: ĭownload from our Download / Trial page or use the Check for Updates feature in LightBurn. This fixes the communication issue for nearly every Mac user we've gotten early feedback from. Download Deepnest Available for Windows, Mac. MacOS (Version 10.11 and higher) ONLY with LightBurn software. LightBurn is a native application written for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This release of LightBurn has built-in data rate throttling to keep it under the maximum rate supported by the Ruida. Deepnest is an open source nesting application, great for laser cutters, plasma cutters, and other CNC machines. LightBurn is layout, editing, and control software for your laser cutter.

In this LightBurn Tutorial Session, we learn all about installing LightBurn for Mac OS.

This series has tutorials, hints and tips as well as the occasional speed comparisons between it and RDWorks.

It appears that the serial driver on MacOS used to talk to the chip in Ruida devices is broken - there's a feature called 'flow control' that allows the Ruida to ask the PC to slow down if it's sending too fast, and on Mac (and Mac only) enabling this feature is rejected by the OS. The Lightburn Software is probably the best generic laser cutting software available (I use it for almost all of my laser work).

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