New guy needing help. My xtool d1 10 watt worked great with lightburn but now is trying me. Everything was fine. Even used the rotary a time or two. Now the gantry no longer moves. Will burn a hole in material but no movement. Thought I would go back to laserbox and try. Works perfectly. Decided to try lightburn material test It did the boxes great but came to adding the numbers on the sides it burned a hole at its starting point.
I am a master woodworker but not so great at computers. Any idea what I have messed up? All help appreciated.
Make sure that you’ve reversed all the mechanical steps from installing the rotary. Also, make sure that you have disabled the rotary within LightBurn.
Had the same thoughts. Went through the steps several times but must have missed something. I will try again this evening. Thanks Kenny
You must be correct I do have the x axis but no Y… Can someone please tell me how to stop the rotary from this condition? I can find no way on my knowledge base. Thanks
Go to Laser Tools → Rotary Setup and disable “Enable rotary”.
I have done this a number of times. It has no effect. Tried it both ways. Thanks
Can you take screenshots of:
- Full LightBurn with Laser window in view
- Edit->Device Settings
Got to learn to do that. will try. Not much luck. Not real computer literate.
What version of Windows are you running?
Windows 10
Open Start menu and do a search for “Snipping Tool” and open that application. That will give you various options to take screenshots. There’s a chance that the tool may be called “Snip and sketch” depending on whihch updates you have applied.
Sorry but just not working. I can take the shot but not find it to attach
Understand you are trying to help a 79 year old learn a computer
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Taking the screenshot doesn’t save the screenshot. It only captures it. You need to explicitly save it after that.
Recommend you read through this page for more details:
Use Snipping Tool to capture screenshots (microsoft.com)
On the snipping tool right click the image and hit copy. In the reply just paste it with the ctl-v command or right click and paste.
Thanks everyone for the help. Checked shop records to find this program HAS functioned properly since using the rotary. It functioned well until the update was installed.
I have now completely uninstalled everything. I may reinstall someday to try again. I am to far behind to take the time to mess with figuring it out now.
I really like Lightburn but after this I will think twice about depending on it.
I really appreciate your help. There are no published books.on the program and no help at all from Lightburn. The forum is a godsend for the dummies.
o.k. Decided to give it another chance. I have narrowed it down to the rotary is not turning OFF as the window shows That is the reason X works but Y does not. Info is being sent to the rotary instead of the gantry. I have tried many times to turn the rotary off with no success. I understand this was a bug that was to be fixed in a update.
Is there a way to turn it off I am missing? Says my software is up to date. Maybe you might have a solution for this.
I know I am a pain but appreciate any help…
Can you save the gcode for a simple job using a .txt extension and upload here? Curious what that looks like. This will determine if it’s an issue with LB generating gcode to drive the rotary or if the controller is doing something it shouldn’t.
will be home in a couple of hours try it then
OK I am learning. Think this is what you are wanting. Thanks Forum said I had posted to much today Had to wait.
; GRBL device profile, current position
; Bounds: X0 Y0 to X16.15 Y19.82
G00 G17 G40 G21 G54
G91
M4
; Cut @ 5 mm/min, 20% power
M8
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; Layer C01
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M9
G1 S0
M5
; return to starting pos
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M2