Falcon 10w Pro footprint

[DeuCeNTX]

Hi! I recently bought a Falcon 10w Pro kit (this is open frame design, no enclosure) to play around with, maybe create some coasters and such, and engrave some tumblers. My kit came with the rotary kit, but I had to purchase a honeycomb and a soft-side enclosure separately. I bought a generic 500x500 bed, and the Falcon has a 400x415 engraving area.

I am a CAD designer by day and work in Solidworks, so I have a propensity to design things in a “perfect” environiment - I like to know exactly where things are placed, which brings me to my issue. I’m trying to align the laser frame to the honeycomb bed so that my 0,0 is in the left corner of the honeycomb. It also needs to be parallel to the laser’s X and Y travel.

The honeycomb being about 19mm tall throws the Z off on the laser, so the laser frame needs to be raised so that the short Z travel on the laser module can be adjusted to the material height. I installed 2 of the risers which is ok for the Z using the honeycomb, though still limited, but I haven’t even got into using the rotary yet to know what additional height I may need.

I mention all of that to say I feel the best option for all of these issues is for me to create corner blocks that can be stacked for height and also align the frame with honeycomb, possibly on all sides.

Does anyone have the frame/footprint measurements for this unit? OD dims of the corner footprint would be great but also dimensions from the frame edge to the center point of the laser module would be awesome too. I can probably measure the laser module with my calipers pretty accurately, but I just don’t have great enough measurements using a tape that has helped so far. It is “close” but there’s several interferences that keep making trouble in other areas. Thanks!

[s3sebastian]

I don’t have this exact model here otherwise I could 3D scan it, but I asked the Falcon team if they can provide the measurements.

[DeuCeNTX]

Awesome thanks!

[DeuCeNTX]

I don’t know if this will help anyone… but I ended up setting my laser up on butcher paper and manually (and somewhat eyeballing) aligned the bed to the laser frame. I took as accurate of measurements as I could, converting to the nearest metric unit in belief that most likely it was designed accurately to a specific unit.

I designed a fixture that my frame can sit on with risers and alignment dowels so that the risers are stackable underneath fixtures to raise the frame to whatever height is needed. I arranged my fixtures within a 12x16 rectangle because I found a package of 12x16 6mm birch plywood on Amazon to purchase. I cut them out and gave them a try and they worked great. If the image inserted correctly below, the gray dimensions should be the laser alignment, depending on if they are measuring from the inside of the frame foot or the outside. There’s a good chance they are measuring from the frame edge, but that wouldn’t help my fixture setup so I didn’t take that measurement. Hope that helps someone at least have a starting point to align their bed. I also attempted to add my fixture setup for clarity.