Good evening, I am working on the camera for the Atomstack A70 Max, bed size of 800 by 850. I am using the AC2 which Atom stack sells compatible with Lightburn, but only sees 400 by 400 max. I ran through the wizard, can complete the first part no issue of the camera lens calibration, but now camera alignment is my issue. I can not get it recognize or modify the work area for the camera to see fully. Yes i know its 800 and not 400, I have no issue with only half the bed. But I am not able to move the working area to back of machine (only place camera can mount). I contacted Atomstack, they have no official instructions to set up camera in their software or lightburn. Their only official answer is others have ordered and never complained before.
So far I have made new profiles with bed size of 400 by 450. Does not work as intended. I dont want to have to raise the camera to ceiling in order to use it (it is a full HD camera). Recommendations?
The camera needs to see the homing spot. So you need to mount it at the front-left (usually). Then the approach is correct, use a second profile with a 400x400 workspace size. Then everything works correctly.
See here for reference: Using a camera with a diode laser - Diode Laser Wiki
Thank you - probably correct way to do it, the camera instructions show mounting it in the back and such, but will give this a go and report back, probably take a week though, thank you for reaching out!
for example here it is M8 mount it also exists in M10, if your camera module does not have a lens with a screw thread, there is a plate that clips on and allows you to mount these lenses for a cost of 1 euro, so you can change the focal length of your camera and avoid mounting it on the ceiling, and cover the area in question.
But this will strongly decrease the quality and might make it useless. On one hand it decreases the resolution of pixels per mm and the more wide angle you use, the more distortion you will have.
So depending on the setup it sometimes might make sense, but in most cases it’s not beneficial.
As I mentioned, it depends on the setup. Most common webcams do not have enough resolution. The Cam500 from Sculpfun does not work very well when used for more than 400x400mm. But again, this depends on the requirements. Some people need sub-mm accuracy, for some, 10mm are ok.
