Holder for Laser 500mW ANet A8

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You need a holder for the 500mw laser that will be attached to the lower backside of the bearing holder. To do this, you'll have to add an M4 thread in the back of the lower bearing holder. The 500mW laser can be found on Aliexpress at https://www.aliexpress.com/item/500mw-405NM-focusing-blue-purple-laser-module-laser-engraving-TTL-module-500mw-laser-tube-Laser-module/32562052620.html. For Inkscape plugin, go to jtechphotonics.com and follow the link to page id 1980. For plugin instructions, visit jtechphotonics.com and click on page id 2012. The X-offset is set at 20mm while the Y-offset is 65mm. To enable support for the G2 gcode command, you'll need to add #define ARC_SUPPORT in the configuration_adv.h of Marlin firmware. This feature can be disabled by commenting it out, saving around ~3226 bytes of space.