Camera for Ap1812

[gentzleon (Victor Leon)]

I am about to receive my AP1812, anyone know what camera will work with it? I would like to have it and lightburn ready to learn on it and set it up from the start.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

This is hard to answer without more details that you will need to gather about your setup. Here is the information we provide to determine the best camera solutions for a given environment.

Use this to determine the best lens choice based on your mounting location.

What is the best camera lens to choose for my bed size?

To answer this question requires one additional piece of information: The height above the bed that you plan to mount the camera. LightBurn now has a helper that will do the ugly math for you. Go to Help > Camera Selection Help and the software will use the current workspace size by default, and show you the minimum mounting heights for all the cameras we sell: [image] This number is the absolute minimum required for the camera to see the whole working area. You will need to allow a little …

And this might help in visualizing these choices.

Visual Guide for Cameras

As many of us are upgrading features on our lasers to include a camera, I thought I would share a guide to complement the math on the LB site. This is a visual guideline in comparison with the lid/bed, which includes brief print instructions in the file. The angles should be fairly close to spot on, but there may be some approximation, depending on your printer/settings. I placed it at the center of the lid in the open position and at the front of the bed to get an idea of coverage at both angle…

Once you have chosen a workable camera and lens choice, use this detailed video to setup and calibrate camera use within LightBurn.

LightBurn Camera - Setup and Calibration

LightBurn provides for the integration of a hi-res camera into your current workflow to ease and enhance your laser projects and production. Once set up and calibrated correctly, the camera feature provides for accurate placement of artwork on desired materials with visual feedback. You can also capture, trace and digitize physical artwork - all directly from, and to use within the LightBurn experience. Below is a video walk-through of the process to get your camera set up correctly and dialed …

[gentzleon (Victor Leon)]

Yes I read all that info. Was just wondering if anyone had already installed one on the same laser. If not I will just wait until it arrives then order.