Good evening. So currently I have 2 Co2 lasers (different wattage/purpose machines), 5W UV Laser, and 50W JPT Fiber Laser Trying to figure out a way to combine all libraries into one, however have them categorized. So for example, I have a header value of Fiber, UV, Co2 and under each header then I can enter my cut/engrave settings for each of the types of lasers I have. Obviously you cannot do this within LB so figured I’d give it a whirl with my limited programming knowledge, outside of LB by adding a “Category” tag. this renders the file unreadable.
Is there a thorough tutorial somewhere on the manually editing (or at least the basic setup) outside of the application where I can do this and not have to keep switching libraries every time I move from one laser to another? I mainly ask because I’m trying to use UV and Fiber at same time from same machine and that is possible, just switching libraries is not. And yes I get that I can edit an entry to something like UV-Aluminum Business Card - Engrave but I really don’t want to do that. Would be so much easier and more organized to have sections for UV, Fiber, Co2 and the corresponding settings under each section.
Would appreciate any insight to my though process.
The library is usually associated to the device settings… meaning that when you load a specific device, Lightburn selects the associated library.
The device settings also contain your lens correction for your Fiber and is substantially different from your device settings for your laser…
I have a few grbl machines a co2 (dsp) and a fiber.
I have four lenses for the fiber and have four devices, 1 for each lens and 4 libraries. Each lens and library has different speed/power, interval settings, q-pulse, frequency and other options, so they are not interchangeable.
I have enough trouble keeping track of the parameters on a single laser library, so I can’t imagine having to sort through all of the entries every time and not making a mistake.
Only the Lightburn people would know if what you want to do is really feasible.
this right here is exactly the problem I have. I’ve got 3 different libraries now, 1 for Co2, 1 for Fiber, 1 for UV, each setup with it’s own device. If I switch between devices, it’s not switching libraries as I would expect it to. Running latest version of LB.
so LB is supposed to switch libraries automatically? if so that would certainly eliminate by need for the above.
you were spot on. I think the issue is I’ve been upgrading LB for several years now and that never worked. This morning, I completely removed it, restarted machine, reinstalled latest version, setup my 3 laser types, imported my Co2 library under Co2 Laser, then imported for fiber and and UV saving each time, then restarting LB and now selecting each laser brings in the corresponding library!
