I have been trying to integrate my rotary attachment with my Ruida based laser machine and have encountered numerous problems. I got the correct steps for a rotation entered, so that is calibrated properly. Watching an online video referencing Lightburn, I learned to adjustments I needed to make to reduce the idle speed and the line shift. However, my X,Y axis locations somehow got botched up. I don’t get the full use of my table (1000x600) and it occasionally would try to go past X 0 and the resulting relay noise was unnerving. Another online video instructed my how to revert to the default settings, so I thought I was home free. Wrong! Now the X,Y zero positions are wrong (I use top, left) and the left right travel keys on the keypad are backwards. Please advise!
Thanks.
Did you back up the settings before you changed them? (You can click ‘Save’ in the Machine Settings window, and then Load later to recover them)
For the origin being wrong, which corner does your laser go to when you power it up? That’s the corner that the ‘Origin’ point in Edit > Device settings should bet set to.
The keypad buttons have their own settings in Edit > Machine Settings, near the bottom, called ‘Invert Keypad Direction’. Save what you have now, just in case, then check those. We have general documentation on configuring a Ruida controller from scratch that you can refer to as well:
https://lightburnsoftware.github.io/NewDocs/ConfiguringRuida.html
Oz:
Thanks for the quick reply. I also sent a request to the laser manufacturer. Got a suggested file to upload into RDWorks to reset the parameters, but not any specific instructions on how to accomplish that. Lacking proper direction from the manufacturer, I decided that your suggested route was the best alternative. Everything was going fine until I got to the step length calibration. X axis was fine, but the Y axis was very small. It was a 20x20mm square and I was getting a 20x3mm rectangle. So, I reduced the step length on Y to about 1/6 of the original setting and ran it again, expecting success. But the Y axis travel had not changed. Suggestions?
Turn off the Rotary Enable setting. 
The rotary was not enabled in the machine setting and also not enabled in Lightburn.
I would double check that to be absolutely sure. The only thing I’ve ever seen that would cause the Y axis settings not to have an effect is having the rotary enabled.
I am not worthy, Master Poe. You were right as usual. I had missed the rotary enable switch in the machine settings. Turned that off, Recycled power and all is well. Thanks again for the help.
Humbly, Grasshopper
Hah - I have the (arguable) benefit of having seen this happen several thousand times at this point.
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