I am running Lightburn 1.7.03 on Windows 11.
I have an xtool D1 Pro 20 watt laser
I have been having an issue where “fill” mode is shifted down and to the right of where it should be happening. As a test I drew a 20 mm circle in Lightburn, I then duplicated the circle and moved the new circle to another layer. I moved the two circles on top of each other.
Layer 00 is set to line and layer 02 is set to fill. I run a trace and it correctly follows the expected outline. We I start the job, layer 00 burns where it should. When layer 02 starts it moves the laser down and to the right burn starting the burn. When I run the preview it draws the circles as it should.
I attempted the same test from my MacBook and the fill and line modes worked correctly. That would seem to indicate it is the Dell Laptop, Windows 11, for the Windows version of Lightburn that is causing the problem.
Does anyone have any guidance on what the next troubleshooting steps should be?
I do. It is set to the default xtool config. The line mode draws exactly where it should. The fill mode is several inches to the right and down a bit. On the Mac both fill and line draw in the exact same location; as they should.
I copied the settings from the Mac to the Dell. On the the Dell and the Mac I was using “grbl xTool D1 Pro”. I ran the test again on the Dell and the problem persisted. I then tried using “grbl xTool D1”. This test was sucessful. The line and fill of the circle occurred in the same place.
It looks like there is something funky with the “D1 Pro” device driver on Windows.
What problems could occur by using the D1 and not the D1 Pro driver?
Maybe your trying mm/min values with mm/sec and the speeds get way (60x) faster.
Also I noticed that D1 Pro has DTR enabled.
You could try the D1 Pro device but with DTR disabled. Also with Scanning Offset disabled. Test one at a time.
It was the “initial offset”!!! Everything seems to be working correctly now. Odd thing is that I didn’t even know that was there so I can pretty safely say I didn’t change it. Anyways… THANKS!!!
Sorry I forgot and didn’t mention that it’s a problem that’s becoming common with XTool. I’m glad I posted the image with the Offsets and all is working.
