So I tried to cut with Scal, and it worked fine. I liked the cougar plug in. The force and velocity seemed to actually set correctly from the software, and I like that you can save your settings through that. You can also control the length of the blade overcut and it asks if you are using a pen or a blade to control your offsets and overcut (both of which aren't needed if you aren't using a blade). I do wish it had better copy/paste functionality between programs as well as pasting into the trace dialog.
Has anyone figured out exactly where it will cut? I can get it to cut in the correct orientation within a cm range, but not dead on wysiwyg. It is close to setting the laser to the 2 inch mark from what I can tell. I could take the time and try and figure it out exactly, but thought I'd ask first to see if anyone has done it.