Help with rotary attachment

[cristhian (Cristhian Peña)]

I bought a rotary attachment for my red & black ruida laser but there are not instructions!!! Have I placed it well? Does anyone know the data that is placed in that lightburn dialog box for this model?

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Here is our Rotary Setup documentation: https://github.com/LightBurnSoftware/Documentation/blob/master/RotarySetup.md

[cristhian (Cristhian Peña)]

Rick How can I count how many steps my roller needs to take a full turn?

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

The following has helped others, so I’d have a read through this and them post back if you are still having difficulties.

Calibrating a rotary tool - How do you find the steps per rotation?

Firstly, can i just say how awesome lightburn is. RDworks is a nightmare for new users, lightburn is a dream <3, so much so i just purchased a license and a camera I have a 900x600 Chinese laser with a Ruida RDC6442S-B controller and this is the stepper motor: [image] Can i check, are there tricks to working out the steps per rotation? the manufacturer doesn’t know (or wont tell me). thank you! Nathan

[cristhian (Cristhian Peña)]

Man that thing don’t work!!! Only made “zoom”, I tried with 8k 5k 1k 360 500 and don’t work!!! I’m very frustrated. I see in youtube and no one put the steps number help!!!