My point exactly…
No doubt, but you have to have that option.
The P2 site states
This means it’s vaporware if it doesn’t exist at this point.
Good luck
have you seen this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeF0NW0m1Y8
i made a small dot laser pointer that you can stick to the side of the p2 laser head. it is powered by a CR2032 and the laser module can be focused.
lightburn allows for applying an offset for the laser reference, which makes this possible (i.e. don’t need the visible laser to be colinear with the co2 laser path).
unfortunately, i have not tried it out on my P2 since i don’t have lightburn or the time to fudge around with it now. still on the fence on whether xcs is good enough for me.
but i think a lightweight laser pointer might address the framing issue? you’d still have to enter the material thickness manually.
I have a P2 myself. So does our lead developer, Oz.
We balance priorities for machines every day, and the P2 just doesn’t have the same clamoring user base that the S1 has. So, we opted to focus our efforts there first. P2 improvements will come, when we can allocate the time there.
The unfortunate reality is that all feature improvements must contend with eachother. There are so many great things we plan to do, but only so many dev hours in a day.
thank you, Colin
if we can suggest a ‘quality of life’ improvement for making it easier to enter the material thickness, then i think this addresses some of the comments above (framing and focus). i heard that you currently have to update the gcode file each time to do that?
I’m not sure if it’s xtool or lightburn that dropped the ball here, all I can say is I absolutely hate xcs. I purchased the P2 in hopes of using lightburn, but it looks like it’s a pipedream at this point. Hardware is only as good as the software it uses and quite frankly, I don’t care what the P2 can do, it’s how it has to do it that makes me have buyers remorse. Really wish I just waited for the Thunder bolt
If it’s all about money they why do you persist with the “maybe someday” comments? New products roll out every day. Based on your prioritzing methods the P-2 will eventually just be a footnote. If there is unlikely to be support for it just tell people so they can move on.
We are a small team with limited resources. xTool is the one making LightBurn compatibility claims - not LightBurn. So take that at face value.
The P2 has a non-standard GRBL implementation (in fact, it’s a compatibility layer build on top of their own command system on the firmware). We have to reverse engineer the comms protocol and figure out how it functions, then write code to communicate with the controller in exactly the form it requires, without any reference documentation about the protocol itself. On top of that, there’s a myriad of logic and camera streams to locate and fix as well.
We’re aware of the material thickness setting for autofocus being troublesome, it’s on the list.
The P2 is a year old right now. We’ll see if we get the same answers a year from now after multiple new products have been released. What good is having a list if the methods of prioritizing keeps some products constantly at the bottom? XTool has taken some steps to make their product work with yours. However, I don’t agree that their claims of lightburn compatability are accurate. I also don’t quite understand the small team & resources comment. Are there any products out there in the market that can actually compete with Lightburn? (XCS is not one of them) You’ve got the market cornered! increase prices if needed and expand the team. I would gladly pay $150+ every year if the support was there. Back to my original post. Myself like many others may have been misled by XTool into believing the two products were compatable but the results remain There’s no need for me to pay for Lightburn upgrades if it doesn’t support the machine I own. If it ever does I will reconsider. I the meantime my only choice is to hop on the XCS bandwagon.
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