I have been really struggling with getting my camera alignment situated. I have a FoxAlien Reizer mega which has a working area of 800mm long and 400mm high. I have the 8MP x 120 Degree camera from your site and have mounted it about 22 inches above my laser bed. When I run the alignment from the software, using an 5mm piece of wood and at 195% scale it fits on my workbed. After I mark the box it will only offer me a zoomed in image of the workbed in my working area even though the live picture shows the entirety of my enclosure that I have built. How can I get my camera and software to recognize that my work area is the full extent of the 800mmx400mm? I have run the camera calibration and used the presets for the lightburn camera. I am desperate to get the image perfect as I need to print on both sides of a material and use the second side to actually cut the material out and am unable to get the alignment perfect.
Are your registration marks outside the art or are they ‘sharp corners’ of the art?
The camera is not a necessity to use Print and Cut. A visible-light laser can be turned down far enough to use the fire button and jogging the laser head until it is correctly placed.
I was told, for the most accurate Print and Cut results put the registration marks as far apart as possible, jog toward the registration mark then pulse the CO2 laser and destructively approach the registration marks with perfect tiny dots.
The software will recognize the work area from what is entered as the work area in the top left corner of the Device Settings window.
I suspect that you’re fighting a behavior allowed by the camera driver. Please test the Custom Camera Capture System.
Click Edit, click Settings, and in the bottom left corner select Custom Camera System, then carefully click OK to make sure the settings take. Retest your camera alignment at your convenience.
I apologize that it took so long to get back to this thread. The art is not an issue when it comes to the size of the work area. It is that the camera, while showing the entirety of the work area in live view, when I capture the background it only shows the area that was within the square made by the alignment calibration area and a little more. I made sure to enlarge the alignment of the square to the biggest possible area without leaving my actual working area (which is 195% the standard size), as when I try the standard size I lose even more of my work area than usual. I have checked the settings and use custom camera system is already selected. At the request of the email I sent to Lightburn proper I checked to make sure that the work area was in fact designated as the 400mm tall by 800mm wide. At one point, a few versions of Lightburn ago, I did not have this issue but that was multiple updates previously and I do not recall the build version that worked. I have tried making the reference points for the alignment calibration a rectangle to match the bed size and all that did was compress the background into a square instead of the work area proper. Sadly I am at my troubleshooting limits, even though my day job is IT.
