I cannot get it to be anywhere close to being as fast as in EZCAD (which is maddening to use)
I have a Monport 60w MOPA fiber laser, and out of the box I realized by the text test they give you, that it is capable of filling single vectors on the full 8x8 in about 20 seconds. Its insane. The initial problem I had was not being able to see in Lightburn - and THAT was fixed with a license add-on, (I have CO2 as well) and subsequent driver install. Lightburn made that pretty easy.
BUT… When installing the driver for Lightburn, as most of you know, it disables the EZCAD driver. Since I don’t care for the EZCAD clunkiness, I figured there was no loss. HOWEVER, I cannot get anywhere near the same speeds out of Lightburn. I believe I have matched the start/stop/delay/jump/ settings correctly, but it just won’t move as fast.
Any experience with this issue? I would prefer to use Lightburn direct, even though cutting and saving from it and importing into EZCAD would be far faster on production.
Did you import the markcfg7 file from your EZCad folder when you first setup your device profile in LightBurn? That should import the timing and delay settings automatically, and eliminate any question of whether they do in fact match. If you didn’t, it’s worth doing so now.
You should also make sure you’re using identical settings in your EZCad projects as in LightBurn - line interval and hatch settings in particular can make an enormous difference in time.
It’s relatively simple and painless to switch back and forth between EZCad and LightBurn - we’ve got instructions on swapping the drivers here:
I imported the settings as was suggested to begin with. I have also examined timings and watched the timing video twice.
I notice that images run at about the same speed in both programs, but vectors are vastly different. I will double check the hash lines/resolution of the vectors, but it is screamingly different.
I reloaded the mark7cfg file, and it didn’t make any difference. I went through the timings again, and it didn’t seem to matter …THEN I noticed the 10000mm/min …NOT 10000mm/sec was where the settings had landed (I usually use inches for the CO2 machine)
So… MY BAD … I needed to double check the speed. And now I can dump the clunky other program.