I recently received a Longer Ray5 5W as a gift. I have set it up in a separate area from my PC because it has SD card capabilities and ventilation is easier. Because I am using this engraver in offline mode I have to manually set up a device in LB in order to proceed. After creating a design I save its GCode to the SD card. The Ray5 claims to read a variety of files and is reportedly compatible with LB. I am able to locate the file and run it, however while it travels the path as if it were engraving it does not actually engrave. After returning to LB, I opened the file and noticed that the layers have been eliminated down to one and their respective power and speed settings have been altered to the lowest possible settings. This is the case of nearly every file. What am I doing wrong here?
If it is the same machine that I found in a Google search, the controller board will be an MKS DLC32 like the one I use.
This controller card does not write to the SD card (that I know of). Only read.
The SD card must not contain any more files than the Gcode files you want to play. If there is a configuration file, the control board will read that file when it starts up and may change something that it shouldn’t. (I don’t think that’s the case, but here’s the information).
Are you willing to save one file in Ligtburn to Gcode and post it here to let us open and check if there is any problem?
You are correct, it is the MKS DLC32 mainboard.
Test 1.lbrn2 (21.4 KB)
Test 1.gc (11.1 KB)
Here are two files. The first is the original lightburn file and the second is the saved Gcode file saved to a Micro SD that would normally be inserted into the laser.
I figured it out. My settings were set for CO2 lasers. Once I swapped to Diode and readjusted the speed it worked!
I would never remember that.
Just to add for clarification: you opened the gcode file, which is just a machine processing file containing all movements one after another, there’s no such things as layers anymore.
Noted. Thank you for the clarification.
It took some deep diving. I learned more about Lightburn this way though. Thanks for responding!
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