My crosshair is off and I can not get it to adjust when I change the settings. Makes no differents what numbers I put in, its alway off by the same amount after I check for adjustment.
How are you testing this?
Try disabling the offset entirely. What happens then?
No matter what value I put in it does not adjust the crosshair to center.
It doesn’t effect the crosshair position at all.
I test by burning a point then send the laser Home. Then I use the laser positioning button to move the laser back to the center of the point I burned.
When offset is disabled, it does not allow you to input adjustment values.
If I’m reading this correctly this may be a misperception of how pointer offset is supposed to work:
- the crosshair should be used to position the design on your material or otherwise indicate where design will be burned onto the material
- when the job is run, LightBurn will offset the motion such that the primary laser is now positioned where the crosshair originally was
If you want to test then try the following:
- Create an X shape
- Position design on your workspace
- Make sure you’re set to Absolute Coords in Laser window
- Frame the job to get a sense of where it will burn
- Run the job. If the offset is correct it should burn right in the middle of the frame
- Select the X shape on workspace
- Arrange->Move laser to selection->Move laser to selection center. Does the crosshair hit the center of the X?
- If not, adjust offset value and repeat Arrange->Move laser to selection->Move laser to selection center.
- Repeat until crosshair is centered onto X intersection
I think that will work but I don’t have a similar laser in front of me to verify.
I know how to move the crosshair but the adjustment does not respond. its about an inch off center. Changing the offset values does not change anything.
The offset adjustment is not doing anything.
Please do this:
- Set to Absolute Coords
- Create an X shape and place in center of workspace
- Disable pointer offset
- File->Save g-code, save with .txt extension and upload file here
- Enable pointer offset
- File->Save g-code, save with .txt extension and upload file here
That did not do anything that I can tell. I might have done it wrong. Im not clear on your instructions.
What part is unclear? Did you generate the g-code files? If so, can you upload those files here?
Thank you. I have it working and aligned properly now.
That’s good. What changed?
FYI - It was my stupid move. I knew better but it had been so long since I had worked on the offset. I was trying to move the crosshair to the burn instead of moving the burn to the crosshairs. Dumb move. I’m embarrassed. Thanks anyway.
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