We have a minor subrelease specifically for xTool S1 and BSL Galvo lasers!
This is not a full public beta release per-se - it will not net you additional features over the current 1.6 Public Beta, besides allowing for BSL and xTool S1 fixes to be tested. The Public Beta subrelease folder below will be deleted once 1.6 is released and 1.7 is bumped up to Public Beta. Note: the automatic hyperlinks in the above text go to the regular public beta page - please click below.
Hi Colin,
Thanks very to you and all the team who are working on this, its very much appreciated. I wiil test and give you feedback in due course.
Cheers, Steve Jones.
@JoeSpanier will have more context than I here - but yes, the diagonal lines, general communication issues, air assist, and I believe rotary is also working in this release for the S1.
BSL lasers are also supported with this release, youāll need to import the config into LightBurn.
i have an Atomstack M4 laser, which is supposed to work with SeaCAD. I canāt get it to work with the Lightburn 1.7.00 BETA version. Hereās what Iāve done so far:
Installed Lightburn version 1.7.00.
Connected the laser with USB, found it, and loaded the āBslCAD.cfgā file that has settings from SeaCAD. (With versions before 1.7.00, the laser isnāt even detected)
Checked the settings as best as I could and compared them with the settings in SeaCAD.
However, Iām still facing some odd behavior:
As soon as I start Lightburn and turn on the laser, it wants to start lasering right away.
Lightburn keeps flashing the message āStart Marking triggered, but no layers set to outputā continuously.
Also, if I draw anything on the workspace, it immediately tries to start lasering.
I canāt stop the process; the STOP button in Lightburn doesnāt work anymore.
The only thing that stops it is turning off the power. It doesnāt laser what itās supposed to, but instead keeps lasering a small triangle at what seems to be full power.
The console on the right side in Lightburn, which usually shows information when Iām working with my GCODE laser, is just empty.
I know this is a BETA, but maybe this information can help the developers, or perhaps someone else has an idea?
The console will never show anything, because thereās no human readable communication between this machine and LightBurn, and it doesnāt accept GCode commands, so thatās expected.
The āStart Markingā behavior sounds like you have an IO pin set to trigger marking, and itās on. Go to Edit > Device Settings (or press F3) and look at the Ports page for the Start Marking setting. If itās not set to āNoneā change it to that. I just got an AtomStack M4 here, so I can see if it works here.
Doesnāt work with bsl cards like dbk21b. In Mac os is not connected, in windows its connected but(framing), galvos dont move. Maybe work with small cards.
Does the guide lines really need to default to 20 meters ? or is this a case of an extra zero slipping in ? Cant say that I have have heard of anyone making a Laser 20m in X or Y.
Try to keep questions there so they are easier to track. Let me know if thereās anything odd. I put a lot of testing in but Iām sure I didnāt get everything.
No, no problem just curious about size, initially it seemed overkill to me even if you were using Print and Cut. It turned out person I was assisting had Selected everything (including Toolpath) and moved to a single layer, and couldnāt work out why the job was going out of bounds when trying to frame. the job was roughly 6" square in middle of work bed, They kept insisting that it was only a reasonably simple vector and nothing elseā¦until I connected remotely and could see what they had done.
Thank you!!! I have been waiting for months for this! I downloaded 1.7 and upgraded my licenseā¦ it is working perfectly with my Mr Carve S4 Galvo laser with a BSL card. No more BSLAppsimple! So much better. Doing a happy dance. I have tested with the materials card in LB and with some slate coastersā¦ works perfectly so far!
Please let us know how you progress.
