Help needed with calibration type cut using auto movement of bed ( Z ) and head ( X )?

LightBurn Software Questions
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Hi all, I am trying to do a mode burn using acrylic which basically sends a pulse to the head every 10mm of movement on the X Axis. After each movement I would like the bed to move down 1mm or 2mm before the next pulse but I have not got a clue how to do this. Can anyone help please ?

I have a 600mm x 500mm bed with stepper motors on the X Y and Z Axis and a RUIDA 6442 controller.

Any help appreciated :+1:

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I don’t have a Z stepper on mine, but it seems to me there is no control over Z once the layer is executing.

Hang around and see if someone else know different.

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Thanks Jack, but I must say I have seen Russ doing exactly this in one of his videos but could not see how he did it!!!
I’m sure someone must know!!!
Rgds
Kev

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He does not use Lightburn.

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Hi Jack
That may be the situation as he uses RDWorks but I thought Lightburn was supposed to be a step ahead of that software!! I will try and ask the same question on the RDWorks forums.
Cheers
Kev

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There are a few things you can do with RDWorks, that don’t seem to have a counterpart in Lightburn, such as the Blow option to control how wind is handled.

If you get a controller that has this set to when the laser is enabled, it will turn you air assist on/off along with the L-On operation.

As far as I know the only way to change this is to run the right version of RDWorks and change it… There’s no way I know of to change this from within Lightburn.

Doesn’t make the software worse. There’s likely lots of things about a Ruida that are unknown.

Are you looking at some kind of focal point test?

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Yes Jack, I have posted on RDWorks Facebook page to see if anything pops up there. I have tried other methods but the dot method on acrylic is what I am really after.
Thanks

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I get it, hang around, there are others. Sometimes this work on one model, but not another, so I’m interested.

I have the stuff to put a stepped Z together, but when I really looked at it with more detail, my OMTech does not have straight screws for each of the 4 corners, so moving Z would be more of a nightmare than a benefit, in my case.

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