Post edit: 0.9.09 has been updated to include fixes for:
MacOS port filtering being too aggressive
Ruida frame bounds checking not working (this is now on a switch to allow for wider testing, defaults to disabled, and you can now choose to run the frame anyway)
Thank you, Thank you. Have not had a chance to look at any other update but the preview before open is the best thing since sliced bread. I have spent the last several hours opening and then resaving many of my projects and images to get the previews. This is going to be a tremendous time saver and one step closer to being my only laser program. Again, Thank you.
I just tried the re save option to get the pre-view in windows and it worked only with the very first project I saved. It hasn’t worked with any subsequent saves. The file icon is just blank as before - any ideas?
I have opened about 150 projects that I previously saved in LB last night and resaved them to obtain the preview. I am burning wood, glass, acrylic as fast as I can for a vendor booth this Saturday and now doing so with 95% LB because of this preview feature. It works great and my library has already grown by about 25 more items created or traced and saved last night.
There is now a patch updater in place as well. You’ll actually get different builds based on build date, even if the version number hasn’t changed, and we may use this occasionally to push small fixes.
OZ, okay, that would be great.
Meanwhile I did some Gimp image manipulation, cut off the image where I need to pick the burn back up, traced it again, overlayed the new trace on top of the existing one, use the Set Laser position on a noticeable marker on my physical object, turned off the CNC controller board to manually align the laser to that point and turn that back on. It… seems… to be working. I can’t believe it! Thanks for all the help everyone.
Regarding this thread… Resume button didn’t work with this version and upgrades may put you back into beginner mode.
That might also be related to continuous jog. The old system would jog in steps, based on where it knew you were now, so it was easy to update the cross hair location. If you turn off $J jogging, or use the Click-to-position feature you should still get the position update, and it also updates when you click ‘Get Positions’. I’ll make a note to have that checked when jogging is released.