Focus Jig for YOUR laser - LightBurn Project

[@paintballercali]

Glad to see official videos for this stuff just got my first laser engraver

[@lightburnsoftware7189]

Be sure to join the LightBurn forums. Lots of great info there.

[@I-LOVE-EARTH]

Awesome!

[@I-LOVE-EARTH]

To be even more exact, should you take into account the Kerf of the laser you're using?

[@eugeneallen4373]

yes

[@gr8bskt]

Where do you get a ruler with 0 on the edge?? I've been whining about needing this for way too long.

[@mysafename1694]

I have attempted to with my Fiber Laser speed power and frequency ENGRAVING SWITCH PLATE . I'm not doing it on the old style plates only on the new ones that don't break that you can twist which I believe are mylar plastic. Want to engrave them but doesn't seem to want to show up. Using it to label for computer network and Home Theater. I've tried different power and different speed & frequency, but doesn't seem to make any different . Nothing shows up. Any suggestions? Would be helpful. I don't like using the old style plates cause they break too easy and you don't see that many of them anymore they're made out of that old. Bake like plastic. And most of the time when you're doing Home Theater and low-voltage you're using the square holes for the network connectors. Or HDMI.

[@johnclayton2101]

Hmmm.... I am working on a project that uses galvo-controlled lasers. Except not engravers. It is a laser light show that has RGBW (the W= all on to produce white light). Your software may have a new purpose... to create custom images that control a DIY laser lightshow. I own your software. Can I send you an email to talk about this more?

[@lightburnsoftware7189]

If it’s not controlled by EZCad or GCode it would be well outside the scope of our software - we don’t emit color (because engraving lasers don’t work that way), so I would doubt we’d be anywhere close to something like Pangonlin’s laser control software for light shows.

[@johnclayton2101]

@@lightburnsoftware7189 So, I am pretty sure you are expecting the firmware/hardware of the laser engraver/cutter to take GRBL/GCODE command output from Lighburn to convert GCODE to the analog laser galvo positioning signals? I'm not saying this is not awesome for Lightburn to now support. I just don't understand how controlling an X-Y cartesian laser laser is different from your end, being Lightburn? I don't own a fiber laser. I'm now re-directing my galvo system to try and make a cheap galvo-laser based system to use in a resin 3D printer.

[@lightburnsoftware7189]

@@johnclayton2101 - let me put this another way: we’re a small dev team supporting 200,000 users and a decent number of vendors. If your request is for us to customize the software and interface so a very small number of users can run laser light shows, taking time away from features we’re in the process of implementing for our broader user base, we won’t be doing that. If it works for you in its current form, great!

[@johnclayton2101]

@@lightburnsoftware7189 No, I'm not asking you to do anything like that. I appreciate the work you have done and I completely understand it's purpose. You have done a fantastic job. I am just wondering if I could get details from you on how your software controls the galvos in a fiber laser device so I can adapt my laser show hardware to work with your existing software. Especially when your software does the preview of what the laser will cut/ That's all. Not asking you to change a thing. I apologize if I was not clear.

[@lightburnsoftware7189]

@@johnclayton2101 - ahh, understood. Well, EZCad systems don’t use GCode - it’s a proprietary binary protocol, so adapting your board to use their control language isn’t likely to be simple. Take a look at the Baylor project (open source) for some of the details.