Howdy. Today my laser - 30W ComMarker B6 MOPA - changed behaviors and I didn’t intentionally change any settings. It’s probably something silly and I just can’t figure it out but here goes:
Effectively, it will outline but never fill any shapes. This happens even on shapes I know are closed (I started drawing 5mm circles in LB just to make sure).
This also happened between jobs - one time it did it fine, the next time it decided that filling shapes was not going to happen. I have restarted the software, the PC, and the laser several times.
This happens independently of the layer settings (fill, engrave, power, speed, etc). When I look at the preview, the software definitely shows a path where it will be filling the circle in as described in the layer settings, but again, it will only do the outside “frame” of the object. I uploaded a PNG file so you can see that it “intends” to burn the inside but does not.
I will try these as soon as I get home a little later today. I’ve been testing it with 5mm circles. I should also note that I haven’t intentionally changed preferences or machine settings in Lightburn between jobs - I’ll start by loading that backup when I get back in case I accidentally moused over a bad setting or something. So weird.
Ultimately I removed the laser from Lightburn and reinstalled it. That was not my preferred option but it worked. I did notice when I reinstalled it that somehow (meaning I did this but I don’t remember when, how, or why) I had input min/max frequency settings well beyond specs. I have no idea if that was affecting it (not sure how it could because it wasn’t even trying to fill at any frequency but regardless it’s working now.
