Hello everyone
I have always used the “user origin” setting (starting from the bottom left) but for some time, without me having changed anything, the laser, before starting the engraving, takes a step down and to the right of about a centimeter, forcing me to identify the starting point by eye. Has anyone figured out which setting I may have changed unintentionally and knows how I can return to the initial setting, with which the engraving or cutting started exactly from where I positioned the laser by hand?
User origin must be set by you for each job, or at least every session. It is not the same as home position. If your machine doesn’t have limit switches(I believe they are optional on your machine) then the home position is where the laser head is located when you start it. You need to place the laser head where you wish your origin to be and click the set origin button in the move window, whether that is the home position or somewhere else on your workspace. You must set the origin.
evidently I didn’t make myself understood: I’ve been using the engraver for years (at the moment I have a sculpfun s10, without limit switch) and for years I’ve always done the same, EVERY TIME I started a job I manually positioned the laser on the point where I wanted to start. For about ten days, however, it hasn’t been like that anymore, because if I position the laser in a point and click on “start”, the head moves first down and then to the right about a centimeter from the point where I initially positioned it and only then does it start working. I would simply like to understand if there is some setting (that maybe I changed without realizing it) that can make me go back to when the laser started engraving exactly from the point where I positioned it by hand.
The operation you’re describing is how you would work with “current position” as your start from mode. You move the head where you want to start, your current position. In “User Origin” Mode you must define an origin position by positioning the laser head where you want and clicking the “Set Origin” button.
So I would say you inadvertantly switched from current position to user origin. Switch your start from to current position and your workflow should be restored.
thanks again for trying but it is NOT like that: as I already wrote the setting is on “USER SOURCE” and it has not been modified, neither in the past days nor now (it is the first setting I checked, days ago)
“User Origin” MUST have an origin position set. The laser will always go to that location regardless of where it’s positioned currently on the workspace. Which is the behavior you say youre experiencing.
“Current Position” is the workflow you are describing that you want. Change your start from to “Current position” and try it.
I always thank you for the attempt and patience but I won’t go back to it because it seems that the discussion has run aground. How else can I explain to you that I have been using the laser and lightburn for years and I have ALWAYS used the “USER ORIGIN” setting, which starts the laser from where I move it with my hand (don’t explain to me again how it works, please)? I had already tried using “Current position” and it works regularly but I wanted to understand why the setting I have always used no longer works as it did up to about 10 days ago. – I can safely continue to work with “current position” or “user origin” as it is now but I was interested in understanding what suddenly changed, that’s all.
Tim already tried to explain. USER ORIGIN is a position that is not set by default. You NEED to set it in move window.
I guess if you don’t set it, it defaults to 0,0 and your laser also is at 0,0 if you turn it on. Somehow, you might have clicked on the “Set origin” button and changed the origin within the last weeks. Or a LB update corrupted the settings and set some position where it shouldn’t have.
Bottom line is, you always used the button the wrong /not-intended way and just were lucky. The correct use of your setup is to use “current position”, which is what you want.
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