Hi Rick,
What is your Max 80% setting based on? Is it to limit the amount of power the laser is putting out?
I have a CR50W with a limit of 19mA. I can produce a laser output of 24.9mA with my current PS. Without adjusting the potentiometer on the PS.
I seem to reach max at 30% power. Do i set my max min at 30%-0% respectively?
Not following your question, please re-phrase. What are you trying to produce?
I might suggest adding this to the learning tool box. One of our nice members produced this site with tools to automate the initial building of these test files.
Once you have built a couple from this, you can compare against your hand built ones, side by side, to see what is happening. You will be able to use the auto-generated file as a guide.
My power settings don’t appear to change anything. Am I missing a setting? OMTech 20W Fiber Laser using LightBurn 1.2.04 on a Mac running Monterey. Everything seems to fire and burn correctly after initial setup. Focus is good. It’s just that I get the same results no matter where I adjust the Power setting. Not even sure what power it’s ‘actually’ running at… Speed and Freq adjustments seem to work well… Just not Power.
Figured out that if I reboot the laser in between each job it works as expected for the 1st job. Meaning the power settings adjust according to layer, etc. But if I try to run a second job it just stays on the last power setting it used no matter what the layer parameters are set too. Sort of annoying to have to reboot it in between each job though… I’m sure I have something set wrong.
Hey,
I´m new to the hobby.
I like the Material Test Tool a lot.
Is there a way to Cut out the Testfile?
Can I home the laser in any way (besides manualy) if i m in the test generater ?
Thanks Axel
What Lightburn version are you running ?
I believe the material test generator was introduced in version 1.1.00, however it may well have been located in another top bar menu then, possibly ‘Tools’
I tried to find the version release number when making my original post. I could not find it. Where is it found? I searched in Preferences, and I looked for the standard “About…” menu option under help. My version is older than 1.4.00 because when I click “Check for updates” I get a message saying, “A newer version, 1.4.00, is available, but it was released after your license expiry date.”
I also tried to find the version release number using the “Generate Support Data” menu choice, but it seemed to not contain any human-readable info. At any rate, in case it’s helpful, I can paste a copy of my Support Data if I know here to put it.
My fully licensed use of 1.0.06 now has an issue. Since it seemed that at least two menu choices were missing from it, at least one of which seemed like it should be there, I re-downloaded the 1.0.06 version, and dropped it into Applications folder, and now my Mac won’t open it, saying it cannot check it: " Apple cannot check it for malicious software.
Any idea how I can get around Apple’s check requirement?
Update:
I used my Time Machine app to restore the earlier download of the app, and it works again. Please disregard the above.
@jkwilborn , Thanks, that actually did work. I got the new download of the old version added to exception list and got it to open. Interestingly, I still have no menu choice for “Help” → “About LightBurn” and I still have no menu choice called “Laser Tools.”
Considering the date of this post about the Laser Tools menu containing the option… was dated Jan '19, and my existing version of LB is dated Dec 6, 2021, it seems the “Laser Tools” menu choice should be present for me on my version.
I already paid to renew, however, perhaps the original post above, could be edited to add date and version info so there is no confusion, especially since the date of the “Update” seems substantially different from the date of when the original post was made.