My version of an Eleksdraw inspired by the Elekslaser frame.
Still got to make the pen lift and a proper belt clamp but its moving nicely.

@foxylad yes that is normal. You should not switch the power to the controller on before you plug in the usb and connect to the software.

I am no expert but I would think you will have to connect the mana de - to the - of the power supply to the laser. DO NOT connect the + as well.

Try running Elekscam as administrator

@Bignbad laser on and off is M3 M5 same as spindle on off. Laser power is S0 - S255 or S1000 depending on firmware. To convert your 3 axis code you would need to change a positive Z to M5 and negative to M3. I and J for arcs are supported.

Yes that is the board I am using. One problem I have yet to find a good solution to is lifting the knife at angles greater than a set size so not to brake the blade turning in the material. A rather crude work around that I found is to make a small gap to the path at the angle changes to force it to lift. I was planning to use the M8 coolant pin to lift the knife. The gcode tools extension outputs in radians but you can set the scale to 57.2958 to change to deg, I canged the py file so it stayed in deg.

That was inkscribe and Gcode tools extension. I used the Z axis on a 3 axis board and changed the A or C axis (can't reme which) that gcode tools outputs to Z to work with grbl. I will dig out some more info when I get to my PC.

@mrmister which ever you are using. I have a 3 axis board on mine so I use the Z axis so I don't have to Change the cables all the time. But just change the number of steps of the Y axis so your rotary axis will do a complete revolution for 360. Doesn't have to be 360 any thing will work as long as you stretch the pic to that value so it raps round the cylinder