I am totally new to this and can not figure out what I am doing wrong, when I set the job page, post pic to show issue. I built this with today using the Red cross as an indicator as to where the laser should be, but when I put them in they are way off as compared to the look on my xtool
Never mind, I am an idiot and figured it out
So, then, Iâd say youâre not an idiot! 
Thereâs nothing like writing a question to make the answer become obvious. I donât know how that works, but it happens to me. A lot!
Welcome aboard âŚ
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I actually have a similar issue I canât figure out, see video
Try writing it down âŚ
If you havenât already snuggled up with the doc:
If that machine has homing switches, make sure the whole homing process works. If it doesnât have switches, then always start with the laser head tucked into whichever corner you have the Machine Origin (not the User Origin or Job Origin) when you start it up.
Until youâre more confident with origins & framing & suchlike, simplify the problem to making one thing at a time. That way the frame will show the bounding box in a useful way that you can check by eyeball.
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Worked on getting to work all night last night, gave up, there is something that is not right in the way it is seeing the x,y coordinates. The Home feature goes slamming to the edge and starts skipping the cogs on the belt, so you have to shut it off. When manually putting it in the âHomeâ position then turning on seem to make it happy (unless you hit the home button in lightburn), but still does not see where it is. Everything works properly in Creative Space, so the functionality of the Xtool is fine. it seems to be the way Lightburn is seeing the Xtool and its parameters. Like I said in video (I went down to one piece of work) it is not going to the proper location, even though the framing is in proper location. It wants to move to another spot to start the burn. Any help would be appreciated, or will delete and find other software if canât vbe fixed.
There are a couple of things that might be responsible for this.
Letâs capture the fragile one first. In LightBurn, with this project open and your laser connected, Click File, Click Save GCode, and save the file with the six rectangles. This file should show why itâs not going where we think it should. Please change the end of the filename (or extension) to .txt and drag that file into a reply here.
If your xTool has Limit Switches, it will be able to auto-home on start up. If it doesnât, thatâs when it should be set at the origin (back - left) for start up.
The âdifferent placeâ that youâre seeing may be the offset for the (red crosshairs) laser pointer.
Click Edit, click Device Settings, and verify the state of the Enable Pointer offset switch and, if itâs active what the selected offset distances are. Would that be in the range of the offset youâre seeing?
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