Basic steps to use Lightburn with Openbuilds and Jtech laser

Resources Getting Started With LightBurn
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I installed and connected everything. I have an Openbuilds blackbox with my Workbee 1050 and jtech 7w laser. My question is now what do I do. Such as … do I need to open Openbuilds software at all or just Lightburn only?

Thanks
Beam

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You can use just LightBurn. Only one can talk to the machine at a time.

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Thank you. I was just paranoid and did not see any hands on steps on what should be running or turned on in the background.

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I had some struggles at first when I first setup my jtech 7w laser with my X-Carve. Still have some minor issues but working through them pretty well. Only issue i had recently was when I engraved some tiles for some coasters the line work was pretty clean but the fill looked kind of shaky. Also after installing the new update I had some engraving issues with the same coaster files, they ended up looking extremely faded and didn’t seem to engrave as deep. All settings were exactly the same.

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When setting up Lightburn to talk to an Openbuilds blackbox what device do you choose?

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OpenBuilds uses GRBL firmware.