Hello! I was very new to Lase Engraving, personally own both IR and Diode Laser, but I was wondering if it is possible to frame the edge perfectly instead of only roughly frame the smallest possible path with Rubber Band Frame?
Especially for some more complex shapes, it will be far easier to align everything when you can clearly see the complete edge (Especially with Images with circles)
Kinda like Galvo Framing’s Contour, but only the edge.
Hello
As a concept an image is a square - even if it has transparency it is still a square.
So when requested to frame an image, LightBurn will respect the image boundaries.
A trick that you could try is to do a image trace, and set the resulting outer boundry as a tool layer.
A double trick is to do a Offset of the resulting trace, set to OuterShape Only
You can then frame using this tool layer.
Ya I have done image trace already, which seems to work fine, but if it’s a complex shape, rubber band frame only seems to trace the smallest path, not the exact shape, so far the only solution I found is to just run it with 1% power so I can get the exact path.
Could you post a screenshot of the project, so we can get a sense of complexity?
Like for example, I have a metal plate that looks like a paw shape, and I would like to engrave a pawprint like this onto the plate.
Instead of using the RubberBand, it will be easier to get it aligned if I can see the exact path it takes along the edge.
Since it will be a exact shape drawn for this specific plate you don’t want it to be tilted or something(
See if this flow could help
You could just run the job with 0% power?
Lemme give that a go!
Also another question while I’m here messing with Lasers, I’m having an issue that my printer currently runs over WiFi using Telnet(Need to put it outside so it don’t smell).
But the problem is that if I use Buffered, the laser will lock up completely randomly during a print, and if I set it to sync, the text won’t look as good at all.
Are there any settings I can change to try and get it working over WiFi?
LightBurn also doesn’t seem to have the function to upload to the SD Card and Print directly either :v
The Firmware that came from the factory seems to be quite old as well so I don’t believe Clustering is supported unless I need to figure out pinout and go FluidNC.
Another quick note that this is one of those Smaller Gantry Laser (100x100)
My Specific laser is a WainLux A1 which I believe it’s quite similar with Genmitsu KIOsk in design?
Runs a Generic ESP32
(I did try to move it next to the Router which does not help at all)
I don’t think so. Of course, you can try to increase WiFi signal strength, but those tiny ESPs are not the best WiFi devices in general 
Very tiny antennas and not that much processing power. Often, firmwares have a bad WiFi implementation as well. But since all those low budget devices use standard ESP32s, you should be able to flash FluidNC, but this will open another topic
It more or less does. Not directly. But you can export the generated G-code to a file, copy it to the SD card, move it over and start it.
Another option would be to connect a Raspberry Pi using Octoprint via USB to the laser for remote lasering. There is a grbl plugin that works quite well. But of course, introduces another piece of hardware.
hmm would I need a full size Pi? because I mainly don’t really wanna add too much external stuff onto it :v
Any Pi that runs OctoPrint will work. But since you should be close to the laser anyhow, the SD card method is probably the best/easiest.
Ya atm I just upload it via the webUI to the SD Card, just a lil inconvenient (
So is setting the house on fire. That was a hint. 
