Automating cutting jobs with an autofeeder

LightBurn Software Questions
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Hi,

I had a thought the other day of automating my machine. I was thinking of having a pile of stock behind the laser with a feed system which would feed in a sheet of wood to a limit/proximity switch, stop, start and finish job, then eject the finished job and start all over again. my question would be is there any sort of API for lightburn that i can start and poll for jobs with an external script or is there a developer mode where i can program the laser though lightburn? I can do the mechanical stuff i’m just trying to find a program to be able to control remotely with a script.

Will

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There isn’t at this time. Ruida controllers have an auto/feed axis (U) but LightBurn doesn’t support that yet. It won’t be hard to add, and would get you a little closer.

We do have a way to load and start jobs from other apps through UDP commands, but no true scripting will be available for a while - that won’t be simple to add.

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I’m throwing my vote in for a Python interpreter.

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Hosting the language is easy. Exposing all the internals in a way that’s compatible, and making it play nice with the undo system and UI, is where things get ugly.

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Thanks for the quick reply. that would be really good to get a U axis. So how would I go about sending UDP commands to lightburn?

and plus one on the python :smiley:

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Send an email to support at lightburnsoftware mentioning this thread, and I can send you a python script that uses the commands I have so far.

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cool, thanks, sent

Will

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As a follow up, enough people emailed us about this that all the details have now been posted in this FAQ:

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