I have a Sculptfun 40w and when I try to set the origin I get nothing, it will start wherever I put the laser by hand. I can jog using the RLUD buttons, but the home or origin buttons do nothing. This is my first time on Lightburn and my first time with a laser. Help, Thanks in advance.
The manufacturers often have homing behavior enabled in the Firmware. If this is how the engraver is configured, the remaining step is to enable the Auto-Homing switch in LightBurn.
It’s best to check the Machine Settings. Please request the Machine Settings report from the Sculpfun by typing the following into the Console window:
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then press enter.
Please Copy and paste the report into a reply here.
Once we verify the intended homing behavior from the folks at Sculpfun, we may be able to turn on auto-homing.
If the engraver isn’t set up for auto-homing, the homing technique is to physically move the laser head to the origin before powering up or connecting to the engraver.
There is no 40W laser from Sculpfun, I guess you are using a S6 or S9 laser? Those don’t have limit switches included and do not provide the homing functionality. But you usually don’t need that, LB has enough functions to perfectly work without. Take a look at these guides:
and maybe start here for the full set of guides:
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