It’s an issue because it does each sublayer in sequence unless I’m missing something so since I need to do ~1000 passes it would do all passes of one scan angle then do all the passes of the next scan angle etc instead of the angle increment setting which changes the scan angle every single pass.
I see. Do 1 pass on each sublayer and repeat the process 1000 times.
I realize that’s not feasible.
Sounds like you need a real fiber laser for this project. The F1 is not the right tool for the job.
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It sounds like you want the scan to rotate while scanning. I have not seen anything like that.
It’s a setting available for BSL style machines called Angle Increment in LightBurn, I use it for every engraving as it really helps even out the pattern and hide the scan lines. To clarify, it changes scan angle for every pass, not while scanning during a pass. See pic below and the resulting preview. It’s sorta hard to see but you can see how the scan lines are not parallel they rotate slowly for these couple passes shown.
XCS (xTool software for the F1) includes it as an option but the software is otherwise so extremely limiting that I can’t get it to work for this for other reasons. But it does include this specific feature so I know it’s possible, it’s just a LightBurn limitation it appears.
The GRBL based gantry and screw machines are not capable of the beam movement speeds the galvo mirror machines can obtain. What you ask for would take a huge amount of processing time to do even a small item. For this reason, that rotational scanning will not likely be included in the CORE (GRBL) version of Lightburn.
Unfortunately, your machine has a (sort of) GRBL controller with mirrors. Lasers with a BSL controller are designed to operate much faster.
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