Firstly Good Morning from my first post, Thank You.
I am using an FST 150w and currently running LB 1.1.03. I have a Ruida RDC 6645G controller and am trying to use the Rotary chuck I purchased with the machine. I have this plugged into the Y axis controller. The rotary moves fine.
I have read through previous posts and have tried all the solutions, marking the chuck, setting the steps per rotation and then utilising the rotary tab within lightburn.
When I set all the parameters in the rotary tab and try and burn its does nothing. I have checked the rotary is enabled in LB and also confirmed it is enabled in the machine. I have read that it may be the hardware of the RDC 6445 and lightburn rotary not being compatible.
If i disable rotary I can then burn now lies the problem.
Anything I try and burn is approximately 28% to wide. I have tried burning a 20mm square and the height is 20mm but the width is 28mm. I have measured the dia of the object and inputted this to the rotary tab.
The only way I can seemingly rectify this is to reduce the width of the image by 28% and vertically invert to allow for it on the rotary.
The basic configuration of the rotary is the same. The only difference occurs if it’s a ‘chuck’ type or ‘wheel’ (roller) type.
You didn’t mention…
The motor drivers tell you how many steps/rotation the motor takes. Read that off the switches. The placard on the motor driver will tell you the steps/rotation.
Chuck type rotaries rotate one rotation for the motor since it’s connected directly.
On a Wheel type you must compute the gear ration and the driving wheel diameter…
2000 steps/rotation. The gear ratio is 2.5 * 2000 = 5000 entered in Lightburn
For a wheeled rotary you also need to enter the driving wheel diameter, 62mm in my case.
If you’re is a chuck you don’t need the ratio (it’s 1:1), but you will have to enter the diameter every time it changes so the machine can compute the ‘surface’ speed of the object.
Make sense…?
Assume ‘width’ is the X axes direction?
X axes being off is odd since the rotary doesn’t do anything with the X axes. It only modifies the Y axes computations to make it look like a Y table… You did select the Y axes…?
So I have checked the driver and set lightburn to 3200 steps.
Lightburn will send the file to the laser but wont cut it. The only way to get it to cut is to turn off the rotary and burn as if was a normal x / y design and its still stretched.
