<p>Should we add a tag for 'laser' for those of us who are attaching laser cutters/burners to 3D printers to turn them into 3D CNC. Or is this drifting too far off topic from "3d printing"?</p>

[{'answer_id': 254, 'author': 'Ecnerwal', 'author_id': 6853, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6853', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>A good question. I\'m currently using insights I obtained from mucking about with a 3D printer with Arduino Mega 2560 and RAMPS 1.4 to dive into retrofitting an elderly CNC router (but, as a router, still, not as a printer) with a new control system (presently thinking and have on order Arduino Uno R3 and Arduino CNC shield R3, we\'ll see how implementation goes on those) and was wondering if I could ask questions here that would overlap, or not, as I don\'t think there\'s a CNC/subtractive community similar to this 3DP/additive one in the ecosystem yet.</p>\n\n<p>I actually started out thinking I could just use the same controller setup (there\'s plenty of stepper driver slots available, and going "dual-purpose" cut and print is potentially interesting) but it seems the official GRBL fork is not 2560 compatible, though there is a fork to try and make it so - it seemed more of a sure bet to stick with the "official" fork and the common hardware.</p>\n\n<p>Likewise I\'ve seen a bit of chatter about making Marlin switch-hit CNC/3DP, but I get the impression it\'s not all there yet, and I\'m more interested in immediately usable based on current/past efforts than trying to develop new functionality my dang self.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 282, 'author': 'Greenonline', 'author_id': 4762, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4762', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The tag <a href="https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/laser" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;laser&#39;" rel="tag">laser</a> has been created. Would you like to provide usage guidance and edit the tag summary and body?</p>\n\n<p>So far I have found one question which is laser related, <a href="https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/6214/laser-engraver-with-smoothie-ramps-1-4-or-awc708c">Laser Engraver with Smoothie, RAMPS 1.4 or AWC708C?</a>. Seeing as you posted this question, did you have any other questions in mind that required that tag? If so, would you mind tagging them as such?</p>\n'}]
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