Man I feel like I went into a coma on this CO2, and forgot almost everything.
I got my tumbler / rotary stuff dialed in, and I thought let’s burn a piece of bass wood.
Any suggestions on why I’m getting rectangles instead of squares?
This is becoming ridiculous…
You remember to turn off ENABLE ROTARY? My set up shorts the Y axis if I forget to flip that switch…
Jim… That was it. I didn’t see the green indicating circle on the icon, so I “assumed” it was off. And assuming, well , you know…
Thankx
That appears to be another difference with the new UI …
@JohnJohn: Please add an unambiguous and continuously visible rotary status indicator somewhere in the main window that does not depend on the Enable Rotary switch. Doing so would eliminate essentially all of the wasted effort in all the “my Y axis isn’t working” problems.
Thank you. If this is a new thing, I missed it. I’ll get it to the team asap.
Good call. I seem to recall something about a power cycle being required to complete the change to the settings in the Ruida controller which may be part of the challenge with this.
For Ruida controllers (or other DSPs) this value is stored in the controller itself, and needs to be queried from the hardware, and even then it’s not 100% guaranteed to be correct, since the value doesn’t take effect until the controller is reset.
There’s also the caveat that if it’s powered off, and you use Ethernet, every time we check for it the UI would hang until the network timeout elapses.
We actually do have the unambiguous status indication for all the machines that allow for that - It’s the enable rotary switch. We update it when you connect to the laser, but if you aren’t connected, or don’t connect until right before you send, you can miss it, and we don’t know the state until then because it’s stored in the controller itself.
Howzabout an indicator for that switch somewhere on the main UI where it cannot be hidden. Maybe the little dot inside the Rotary icon in the Modes Toolbar, as in days of old.
Color the dot:
Then force the Modes Toolbar to be displayed whenever the rotary is enabled, so a screenshot would immediately tell us why the Y axis is misbehaving.
That this happens so often suggests the UI isn’t doing enough to prevent it …
For me, I’ll add a statement before the machine runs that reminds me if Air Assist is on. I’m going to add “Is Rotary off or on?” in my settings. LOL, of course I have to find where those statements are stored…. I hardly use my CO2…
Job Checklist will be better for any reminders you need right before starting a job:
We also have this:
Perhaps some sort of bludgeon could pop up? 
How about this:
It’s still subtle enough that people might not notice it, which is why we have the “Job Checklist” thing, in addition to the green rotary dot on the modes, and the bright green “hey, you have rotary enabled” thing in the status bar, but maybe this helps.
As with the Print and Cut notification in the same area, that seems to vanish when the new news arrives.
I like the changed Start button, which will appear in any screen shot we ask for.
As part of setting up a chuck rotary on a KT332N, I ran into this situation after the obligatory Reset/power cycle:
More pondering is in order, but I have the uneasy feeling something is wrong with LightBurn’s KT332N handling, because the Test button moves the X axis, not the Y axis.
