You find it under the Tools menu near the bottom. I have an EleksMaker Rotary originally purchased for my K40 but wanted to try it on the Orur LaserMaster.
HowTo(my version):
I have a roller type rotary so I set that instead of the “chuck” option and clicked enable.
I measured my roller diameter with calipers and set it to 11mm.
I measured the soda can diameter and set it to 65mm
And this got me before but the “mm per rotation” is for the rollers. I put a pen mark on one roller then Move Tab set the distance to 5mm and counted the number of 5mm steps until I saw the mark close to its starting point. Then I switched to 1mm distance and clicked through until the mark was were it started and entered that number. For me it was 40mm.
Previously, I was modifying the firmware setting by changing the Y axis steps/mm. I was thinkng this was going to be a pain and I was going to need to keep notes on what I changed and make sure I change it back when I’m not using the rotary tool. But I had motor problem and found out Lightburn has a Rotary Setup option so once the motor problem was solved I tried the tool and was pleasantly surprised.
I appreciate the feedback - it’s nice when someone posts something that’s just, “hey this was cool” instead of the usual bug reports or problem posts. (though, it is a support forum, so we knew what we were getting ourselves into).
I honestly wrote LightBurn to try to help people use their lasers more easily - the software that came with my Ruida was cumbersome and clunky, not terribly intuitive to use, badly translated, and slow, and I was surprised to find there weren’t alternatives, so I decided to try writing my own. It’s nice to hear occasionally that it worked.
I can tell you the dozen or so people at the SD Fine Woodworkers Association greatly appreciate what you put together. And on a number of other forums I see happy campers using your software so you’re getting some of it right.
I stayed away from lasers for too long because of one the costs were too high for my hobby usage and mostly because I don’t run Windows nor Mac so all the apps were machine specific and only ran on Windows. It wasn’t until Scorch scratched his itch and wrote K40Whisperer that I purchased my laser because K40Whisperer ran on Linux and then I had a ball hacking the K40 hardware(3D modeling stuff mostly). It was May or Jun of 2018 that heard about Lightburn so I hacked a MK SBase 1.3 controller into the machine and saw that it also ran on Ruida so I told the SDFWA guys(Travis Good).
We’ve all loved it and have used it since then.
As a not so talented software developer and one who’s interfaced with lots and lots of open source projects over the years, commending developers of good tools when they comes across my desk is something I try to do but still don’t do it enough. Keep up the good work, it’s making a difference and even more so now that home laser machines are much more affordable.
Ya, Travis and I go back a few years. He had a laser before myself(Ruida based) and knew of Lightburn before I did but hadn’t tried it. He even had met you at atleast 2 Maker Faires. Once I got my K40 upgraded and started using Lightburn he had to give it a shot and he liked it so much he setup the SDFWA lasers with it which brought along the rest of the group. Travis has done wonders getting the group into the digital age with lasers, 3D printers and CNC machines. Excellent group of makers.
