Multi Print and Cut jobs

I saw that this was answered 5 years ago, but was curious if any modifications in the print and cut had been made to allow what I am describing below?

I have several jobs that require repeated use of the print and cut function. I run the wizard and the first job cuts correctly. When I load a new piece of material and start the next job in roughly the same position on the bed, the print and cut no longer aligns the way it did on the previous run. I am manually moving the laser head to the second reference point to match where it was during the prior job, but the cut still fails to align.

Thank you

By hand or using the Jog buttons?

Jog buttons

The Print and Cut transformation maps the targets in the LightBurn workspace to the absolute coordinates of the marks on the platform, but there is no way to adjust that mapping after the fact.

If each sheet of material has the same marks, then you can align the material to the LightBurn targets:

  • Click the Position Laser tool to make it active
  • Select the first target in the LightBurn workspace to move the laser to that point
  • Align the material so that mark is under the red dot
  • Select the second target to move the laser there
  • Rotate the material to put the second mark under the pointer without disturbing the position of the first mark
  • Iterate until you’re satisfied

When you can click on the two LightBurn targets and hit the corresponding marks on the material, then it’s lined up the way Print and Cut expects and the right thing will happen when you run the job again.

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Thank you!

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