2.1 EZCad3 door and Q-Pulse

LightBurn Software Questions
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First off - let me say BRAVO on an EXCELLENT first release for EZCAD3!! Surprising comprehensive, easy and functional!!!

A couple of things:

1.We use a door interlock. And despite the GPIO being green when door closed - we needed to reverse the polarity to “high” for it to allow laser to fire. It might be a bit of user error, but it seemed to impor tthe correct GPIO but not the correct polarity from my config import

  1. I enabled Q-Pulse setting. (This probably should have IMPORTED as “enabled” for my laser)

  2. After enabling q-pulse - it does show up in applicable setting (windows) - but really also expected it to show up as an option at the bottom of the “cuts/layers” pane, as do the other fundemental settings (like speed, power etc).

  3. Also (q-pulse) thought it’s nice to be able to enter any value, EZCAD3 just gives a popup with several common settings (eg 2ns, 10ns, 50, 100, 200, 250). This is way easier than having to manually enter values. (Also may be unintuitive that “250” is max - at least on my laser? Should this be a config option?)

But that aside… BRAVO!!!

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Hi Brad, thanks for the accolades!

1. You can change the door interlock IO from Device Settings manually after import. Click the ‘High/Low’ button to toggle it.

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We’d be keen to have a copy of your config if you’re willing to share, so we can take a closer look to verify where the error is coming from - LightBurn, or the Config. For EZCAD3 devices, the configuration files are typically called markcfg0, Motors.ini, and COR.

2/3. Q-Pulse should be displayed on the main Cuts/Layers panel. We do this for devices that have Q-Pulse enabled in our other device profiles, and I’ve now confirmed it on my system to not be displayed on EZCad3 devices. I’ve made a bug report. Thanks for letting us know! This should be fixed soon.

4. I like this idea, mind putting it into our Feature Request page? lightburn.fider.io
A screenshot of how it’s done in EZCad3 would help. Thanks!

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I agree you should post in feature suggestions. I have a JPT MOPA and it only has 16 different settings for it waveform (q-pulse). :+1:

:grinning_cat:

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Requested files enclosed - thanks! (I had to fudge file extensions to allow uploads :upside_down_face: )

EZCad Focus panel is below. Note that it has:

  1. Home button
  2. A “Focus Position” button which allows you to set the “focus position” below “home” pos
  3. A “fixure offset” setting which allows you to compensate for the objec thickness (above table)
  4. A “go” button which allows you to just go to a (focus) position

More (arguably) more importantly - when I fire or red laser/bound - it automatically goes to the correct “fixture offset” position.

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Other files below will help you with the inverted doorlock GPIO (on import) and motor issues. ALso - just to clarify - the “up/down” buttons and HOME button (In Galvo-Z menu) worked correctly - it was ONLY the up down buttons in the SETTING page that gave me bad motor noises. i.e. these buttons DON’T do the same thing.

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Sorry - only let me do 2 links per post - this is really a ZIP file (that I had to change extension to let me upload)
EZCadStuff.zip.txt (53.3 KB)