I’m not sure what category this should be in, so apologies ahead of time.
I have a graphic of a side of a tower, with cut-outs for girders, etc.
I thought I had selected everything, but instead only the outside. After the outline had been cut, the job had moved so I couldn’t just select the inside bits and start again. I want to move the laser head back to the uncut parts to complete the job.
I’m using Lightburn with a Sculpfun S6 Pro with air assist.
I’m lacking understanding on how to position the laser over an X-Y lateral position.
Can I ask here for help?
3 suggestions:
- You can move to an exact position in the Move window. “Move to position” fields.
- If the work piece has moved, Print and Cut is an advanced way of realigning your design to a partially burnded wokr piece.
- May be too late for what you’re doing but if you go through a proper homing process when you start your machine and use Absolute Coords you would be able to count on being able to have a reliable reference starting point. Your machine likely didn’t come with limit switches to allow for automated homing but you can largely get close by going through a manual homing process.
Thank you for your reply, Berainlb.
I will try to get the laser to point to the start, but that means I need to tell the controller just where that is; I will experiment with that.
I’m unfamiliar with Print and Cut - I’ll chase that one up.
Since I’m not doing production work, I don’t have homing switches: I want the machine to run from where I set the head. I usually have a reference point somewhere so I can continue from a power supply cut. In this case, I did not set a reference, but I want to use the already cut part to tell the controller where the head is.
Thanks again for your input - you have given me some clues to progress from.
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