You should get a medal for creating K40 whisperer! I award you with the Maker medal of Merrit!

THANK GOD you posted this. I am successfully doing my first combo of all three because of you. THANK you

I got my K40 in 2018 and was so discouraged by using it with LaserDRW that I kinda put it aside because LaserDRW is garbage. Then I watched your videos and discovered K40 Whisperer and it brought my cutter to LIFE!! I cannot believe the difference!! Like night and day. It’s so easy to cut now and I can have all the cuts and engraving files in one file and they’re sized already! Truly an amazing piece of software! Now I WANT to use my cutter. Thanks for the tips!!

This video got me up and running really quickly. Many thanks.

Thanks for the software and instructions. I'll be starting making stuff with my k40 soon!

I just bought one of the k40 machines today. I’m looking forward to using your software and the tutorials.

Thank you so much for this video, simple and straightforward instructions for complete beginners! Really appreciate it :)

Best explanation I've seen so far :) excellent thank you, really helpful.

To the point and informative, thank you!

Hi I'm new to K40 c02 Laser so just starting to learn my way round this will be very helpful now the learning begins I also use a CR10S 3D printer and am still learning that I will be looking fo more videos on this laser subject...

Great Tutorial, thanks!!!

FYI for people pulling their hair out about why some dxf files cut wierd (like cutting outside first instead of inside). Check the DXF in librecad as to whether it's doubled up, fusion 360 seems to have a habbit of doubling up the lines in the DXF which results in strange behaviour in K40 whisperer. Thanks heaps to you the OP for K40 whisperer you've enabled my laser cutter without requiring me to use dodgy software :D

Love your software. Really simple and easy to use

Thanks for this video, help me a lot!!!!

I really really love this program. Amazing job!

HI , subbed instantly!!! Very thankful for your effort.

Awesome info. Thanks

many thanks, got it working!

thanks for the post ..it was so helpful for me

What a great piece of software!!, thanks so much!!, it works flawlessly!!!, very intuitive and common sense features. Just purchased a K40 from amazon, CD (CD??!!) came broken, just about to pull my hair when found this, 10 mins later had a sample in my hands. I'm very grateful on your job, how can donate?!, please keep working!!!!

I got my K40 today. Thanks for K40 whisperer and for doing these videos. My k40 has a digital power display. I have no idea how the power numbers translate to current. Gotta put a milliamp meter on it.

thanks a lot for this video!!

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Awesome video thank you, I’m just starting out with this setup and this was a massive help. Ps where did you get your coiled air hose?

Hi thank you for the software. I would like to ask how we can make the corners of the rectangular round?

To change colors right click over the color at the bottom of the screen and choose stroke color. Much faster than using the dialog box

Excellent program, thanks. I was wondering if K40 Whisperer knows, when vector cutting, to cut the inside cuts first? I had a project making a keychain and used a raster for the decoration then used the vector engrave button with the laser set for cutting to cut the opening for the ring before using the vector cut for the outside cut. Just asking since the item being cut and engraved could shift enough to ruin the project if the outer cut happened before the inner cut..

Doing a program for the 3040 cnc would be brilliant too, i purchased a k40 and cnc k40 easy with your whisperer, but struggle with the cnc and its knock off lsrdrw. well done buddy on the program you've come up with.

My K40 arrived Monday and I can't wait to try K40 Whisperer (I have no plans on trying the included software); thank you for making this software available. May I ask where you got the coiled air hose? That looks like a great way to eliminate the need to add a drag chain for the air-assist mod.

Great to the point tutorial; where one can easily extrapolate to do more advanced. What camera did you purchase for K40, with software? thx

I have been playing with design files between Adobe AI, in SVG formats, and K40 Whisperer. So far, I have discovered that I have to save AI files in a legacy version of AI (version 8), remove all options that will add extra data to my design files, and create files in RGB format with a 36 PPI raster effect on my design files. I have managed to get my SVG files to work with K40 Whisperer using the correct RGB colors for my cuts, Raster engravings, but when it comes to Vector Engravings I can't quite figure out how one would use a Vector Engrave. When designing a simple object, say a square box for Vector engrave, I notice that a Fill will not work for a vector engrave. However, a stroke will work for a Vector Engrave on K40 Whisperer, and it is limited to approximately 1 Point Width, or so. Even if I were to increase a Stroke width to something like 5 Points, K40 Whisperer still does not recognize the width of the stroke and continues to interpret the Vector Engrave stroke as being 1 Point in size. As a work around to this, I simply stopped using the Vector engrave feature and keep all my lines to be interpreted by K40 Whisperer as Raster Engrave strokes. By doing so, I can control the line stroke's width pretty accurately. My question for all is, In what particular scenario would I want to use the Vector Engrave feature? Has anyone else experienced the above situation with Vector Engravings before? And, if so, how did you remedy the situation? I did discover that if I use the gradient effects on Illustrator, keep and treat the Fills as RGB colors and use Black and White, that K40 Whisperer will give one a beautiful gradient effect. I'll have to Laser Engrave the test files to see the effects created using the Radial and Linear gradients. Thanks everyone!

Hi, nice tutorial. Only one question, what is the inicial mA for the raste and vector engrave that you use? Thanks

Your voice is so cool

Out of curiosity, is there any functional difference between vector engrave and vector cut, or is it just there to let you do multiple vector operations in case you need to perform them in a specific order?

If your drawing contains both external and internal cuts, is there a way to determine the order that K40W cuts to avoid having the part drop off the material before the internal cut completes? (I know I could just create 2 cut files)

Great video! Where did you get the coil for the air assist?

Now I have version 1.1 and the RGB goes well beyond the 255. Does this have any effect?

when vector cutting or vector engraving a line, since the thickness of the line drawn does not matter, what part of the line will the laser follow (the inside, the outside, the middle?)

Just a quick question. I have been using Adobe Illustrator for many years. Can I continue to use Illustrator and just convert the file to an SVG before exporting to K40 Whisperer?

Will any SVG work or does it have to be done or saved in Inkscape ? Most of my work is done in Coreldraw X4 and not familiar with Inkscape so hoping to not have to redraw them. Or will importing into Inkscape and saving to SVG be good enough ? Your videos are good. Easy to follow, mouse not jumping all over the place clicking stuff not needed, voice not to loud and no stupid music drowning it out. Excellent. Thanks.

Hi Might be a silly question: If I was to cut a small circle in a large circle, how does K40 Whisperer know to cut the small circle first? If it cut the large circle first, and moved, the small circle might not be in the same place? Thanks

Your video was easy to understand and I appreciate that, however, when I tried it everything in 40K Whisperer went crazy and basically stopped working. I'm getting messages like the wrong mode. Raster comes up with an error problem every time. No matter what I've done, including deleting and reloading the software I've gotten no where. There is one thing I find strange. When I reinstalled 40k whisperer it still had my settings, i.e. the last picture brought in and the jog step that I set which is much lower than the original. Any suggestions? I hate wasting the money on the 40K

Do you need inkskape? I have the adobe suit along with other logos design software like Picart and Over etc...If so what if i already have a logo created?

How about if you open a dfx file and I want it 1:1 scale. What setup should I do?

Hello I have a question , when I am trying to cut a cursive font it cuts out the overlapping parts of the word. Not one whole word ( like a had written it cursive ) also when I upload a a svg ( bought from Etsy it does not cut it . I’m new to this and can not get it. Please help :) thank u!

So I assume if you had a really thick red line, it would just automatically cut the inside or the line?

Quick question. When I import my file from Inkscape into k40 whisperer all of my cuts are black even if I set my blue and red to 255 any idea what I could be doing wrong? Thank you for any help

good evening congratulations for your work and your software, a question, when I write inkscape makes me read correct and when I send the raster, the engagement or the cut, it has me speculating (contrary) how come?

Can you tell me where you got that hose you are using for the air assist? Thanks.

This is genius!

Thanks for the information! For some reason when I go to load the inkscape svg file in k40 whisperer, I get a "Inkscape not found" message. I'm on Windows 10 and just downloaded the newest version of inkscape. EDIT: Just figured it out lol.

Help? Saved as svg, 255 blue transfers to K40 in grey scale. Also when my paper and image are the same size they still move independently? The image moves but not the paper?

what if the star would be filled with blue and we would vector engrave it? Would there be any difference compared to the raster engrave?

so it does not matter if i put line width(stroke) of 10mm and 1mm?

I'm new at this and dont understand what vector is or anything else. So do you have some info for dummies?

OK, so I have tried looking everywhere honestly I didn’t want to bug you about this, but I have one major question about this laser engraver. How on earth do you line up your project? I’m having a really difficult time with my art and lining it up say on a specific piece of wood. Or do I need to actually cut out the wood to fit the design. :/ I feel so stupid

He i have 4060 laser machine chines i use corellaser 2012.02 software can i use inkscape

I'm new to using a laser, I have watch quite a few videos and have downloaded inkscape and K40 whisperer but whenever I try to get the laser to cut my design (at the moment a square) it says my usb driver needs updating. When I have looked into it the only way I can update this driver is my paying £7 a month for driver support. Is this right or am I doing something wrong?

Using .17 and now when I tell Whisperer to engrave it goes from were I set it to all the way to the right of the design and starts and then moves right from there. It does not start we I put the laser head either by hand or by the arrows. Any ideas why ?

Can you engrave photos with K40 Whisperer?

Hi, any ideas why K40 Whisperer is showing 2 vector cut lines? Same image, one slightly smaller than the other. Thanks

The vector cut, what thickness material? How many passes? My K40 at 25Ma takes 5 passes at 3mm/sec to cut 1/16th balsa! Why? Focus seems good.

Has anyone gotten the error lib USB not connected when you initial laser cutter

whats the settings for doing rubber stamp?

My artwork in inkscape was red blue and Black, when i imported to k40 whisper it showed only black can you help me?

I didn't hear or see what you set the power to? How do you know what to set it on?

Bud how do you set the laser power?

How do you get rid of the black in the middle of the first square. yours is white but u say it defaults to black. i can't figure out how to get rid of the black and go to white so only the red border shows. thanks

Does the software support the text SVG element?

when I import my svg file into K40, it turns to grey scale losing the blue and red. what am I doing wrong please?

When i click on "initialize cutter" on K40, it says "Laser cutter not found" but everything is connected, any idea???

Why couldn’t you just select the red key at the bottom of the screen?

Whisperer does not recognise the blue for engraving

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