Hello. I recently upgraded Lightburn to 1.7.03. I am using Xtool Pro for my work. I am struggling to figure out why the laser head goes off in the wrong direction and then stops with a beep. It’s not hitting the limiter switch.
Attempting to engrave an image on acrylic. Lining up the laser on the top left corner of the work piece and it frames the outline just fine. The blue frame is not engraved, only the photo. On the “preview” window it correctly shows the path the laser will be taking.
When I hit start I get a message “cut might be out of bounds due to overscan settings…”. I ignore the message and continue. The laser head than starts moving south-west past the lower corner of the workpiece and stops about 3in outside the workpiece (see red line in picture) with a beep.
I keep looking and fooling around with my settings, but noting seems to work or works incorrectly, rotary is turned off, played around with starting position, etc.
I am not engraving the blue frame line, but when I print it just to see what happens, it does that correctly. It’s the photo, I believe, I am having problems with. Please help pointing me in the right direction to solve this. By the way, It even does that with photos I have correctly engraved previously. I was wondering if the new software upgrade reset some values I am not aware of. Thank you for any help you might be able to give me.
Have you tried moving father from the edge to see if it will engrave?
And it does seem like Lightburn has a knack of changing things on occasion when updating.
yes, that all seems to work OK. If I replace the photo with like a plain circle or square it works just fine. It only gives me problems when trying to engrave an image. Like I said, it even does that on projects that previously worked.
Yes, the preview window shows the path it is supposed to take. This morning I tried it again, but this time I made it engrave the frame as well, but at a very low power setting so as not to actually engrave anything and just observe the path the head would take. I “engraved” the frame, when it reached the end of the frame the head would just continue and finally slam into the rail. I am puzzled.
Out of curiosity I converted the image to “trace” and that would engrave just perfect, but that’s not what I want.
Show me a couple screenshots please. Your Lightburn project with “show last position” enabled after you click go to origin and your preview with Traversal moves enabled.
There was a problem with xTool a little while ago that I don’t know if it has been resolved or not. The issue was in translating inches to mm. Change your workspace measurements to mm and try the project again.
I already did try that with he same results. What bugs me is that it only does it when engraving an image. Lines, squares, circles and any other engravings are just perfect.
I even tried absolute coordinates. Again it frames fine but on start it just goes off to the left and slams into the rails, unless I stop it in time.
The initial offset values in your Scanning Offset Adjustments looks extreme. This may be causing an issue with scanning operations. I’d suggest adjusting these or recreating your device profile to correct these values. You could disable the offset as a quick test to see if this resolves your issue before making changes.
YES!!! That did it. Disabled and it works as intended. Easy fix, if one gets directions from a knowledgeable person. I will recreate the offset. Thank you
