Looking for suggestions on where I should place my 8mp 110deg camera on my Boss 2436. 36inches is the widest point. Not sure if I should place it in the center of the lid looking straight down or what…help help would be great.

[image] Quick Tip - Best place to mount a USB camera to use with Lightburn? Tips and Tricks We get asked this a lot. Straight down, in a stable location above the bed, with the whole bed in view, with a little extra room to allow for pixel loss when correcting distortion i…

Thank you very much for the fast response. If my math is right, which it usually isn’t…I need to be 15 inches above the bed with a 110deg 36inch width bed?

also, if I mount it with the lid open am I still able to use it while the machine is running or does it just throw everything off? NOt sure that makes sense, but makes sense in my small brain.

A bit higher, actually, because the camera is a 16:9 aspect, not 4:3. We added this in the 0.9.12 release: [image] [image]

I guess I don’t understand. How do I mount it and use it if I have to have the lid open?

Mounting with it centered in the open lid - pointing straight down, allows for the best view while placing and aligning your work. You would then close the lid as you normally would for safely running a job. Then, after that job clears and it is safe to open the laser again, the camera should go bac…

Oh that was perfect, thank you Rick!!

This is a good one too - he goes into a few details about how he mounted, ran the wires, etc. [Adding a Camera to your Laser]

how do you focus the dang thing? wish it was an auto-focus camera… I use materials between .25" and 2" - it’s obviously not going to be in perfect focus for all that as a manual camera…

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