So - Attached my laser today, and it came with the lightburn camera installed. The camera is detected by the computer - in fact I used my globalmeet meeting room to show the camera working in google chrome.
But in lightburn, selecting the camera lens calibration tool, then select lightburn camera, the NEXT button is never available and no preview shows. Help?
Also - does Lightburn have a crop tool? to crop a photograph, for example? Or do I need extra software for that?
Thanks in advance
John
What operating system do you use? If itâs Windows 10, theyâve recently rolled out new permissions for cameras and microphones and screwed up a lot of things. 
Work through this first and let me know if itâs still not being seen by LightBurn: Getting your camera to work in the hellscape of Windows 10
For the crop question, LightBurn does not currently have an image cropping tool. Itâs something weâll likely do after the pending release, hopefully for the next one.
WIn7 ultimate. Clean new install. Thanks!
Ahh, in that case you might need these:
Hmm.
Did I mention that the camera can be used by chrome without any issue? itâs just lightburn that wonât open the camera.
John
Ok. Installed those drivers and now LB is seeing the camera. Itâs a lightburn camera installed by the âfactoryâ - engravingmachinesplus / Aeon laser who we bought the unit from. They say itâs a standard lens. I go to lens calibration and I get this:
Help>?
I had this problem as well. Raise the image up higher off the bed/closer to the camera.
Iâll try but if I go an inch higher Iâm actually 
outside the laser
I had to stack boxes to get my card about 18" above the bed. Oz said it doesnât matter. Trick is you want that pattern to fill what would be the middle square of a tic tac toe board in the image.
Travis is correct, and this is called out specifically in the walkthrough video for calibrating the camera.
If you havenât seen it, itâs here:
The camera doesnât even have to be mounted in the machine to calibrate the lens - itâs strictly a visual thing, to determine the amount of lens distortion and curvature, and doesnât involve the laser at all. The next step (camera alignment) is where the laser comes in.
You should cover the honeycomb bed of the laser with a bedsheet, cardboard, paper, etc, though - the pattern looks like circles to the software and confuses it.
Thanks - Did the white paper thing - got scores below 3 (below two in most places) but now Iâm onto the last stepâŚ
My camera is so high / so far away from the bed
It wonât let me click the center of the circles when i zoom in (they are pixelated/blurry, but i can see what I think is the spot. Yes, I did watch the video - I guess I missed the part about the bed confusing the software. Maybe you should make the dots a specific pattern?
Shoot me if you will, but glowforge (yeah I said the word) scores about a hunderd specific pattern items on a piece of material thatâs bed sized and uses that to do itâs calibration. itâs pretty accurate now too.
Anyway - transitioning because we need more capacity / speed if we want to ramp up our little hobby into a real businessâŚ
Thanks for all the answers and help - I just need to get past this last stepâŚ
NeverMIND! Damn it⌠I just needed to twist the focus a smidge and DOUBLE CLICKâŚ
They are - theyâre a series of 5 + 6 circles, in offset rows, repeated 4 times. Finding that pattern means identifying circles in the original image using a blob & edge classifier, then correlating those circles with neighbors within a distance threshold, allowing for possibly extreme distortions in both lens curvature and perspective, as well as lighting variations, until enough information is present to infer the pattern. If you have concrete ideas or links to papers for how to improve this Iâm all ears.
Yes, single click is used to click-drag the image around when youâre zoomed in (which you can do with the mouse wheel, and that helps a lot). The pattern you show here is quite small - youâll get better accuracy if you increase the scale that you run the alignment job on. I usually use a cardboard packing box cut to size, or a piece of scrap wood - the bigger you can go the better.
This confused me slightly too until I watched one of the tutorial videos. When Oz says âincrease the scaleâ heâs literally talking about the text entry box labeled âscaleâ on the burn settings right before you burn the pattern. Keep increasing that number then frame it to see the bounds of the pattern itâs going to cut. I kept increasing mine until running the frame moved the laser just almost to the top and bottom of the bed bounds.
Just based on what I see in the image you posted Iâd start with 200 as the scale and probably youâll have to go up some from there.
Thanks - but believe it or not I muddled through. Iâm calibrated to within maybe 1/2mm!
John
The pattern really needs to be a PDF or something. It took me forever to keep the png from trying to scale in Windows. A PDF gives the choice.
Not sure what youâre using to print it, but this is the standard dialog for printing in Windows 10:
Yes, and that prints a full size page like it has been. My memory may be slipping but I thought I saw references to it being 4" x 6" pattern, not 8.5" x 11".
It seems other examples, including yours shows the smaller 4x6 size also.
Does the size matter?
I blanked a little there - I thought âshrink to fitâ meant print normal size. Itâs supposed to be about 1/2 an 8 x 11 page, but it really doesnât matter as long as the size within the view of the camera roughly matches the sample pics. Youâre shooting for it taking up 1/3 the view horizontally and vertically.
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