I bought a CO2 laser (60W) next to a diode laser 10W and I am surprised how much more efficient it is compared to a diode. It bothers me a bit when in Lightburn the zero point (0,0) of the CO2 laser (Ruida) is in the right rear corner and therefore the scale is also flip horizontal and vertical. Moving Lightburn’s object in the X and Y directions also works as a mirror image.
How can I define in Lightburn so that the right rear corner (home) would be 600,400 and the left front corner 0,0.
Another disturbing thing is when I can’t get the laser head to stay in the job origin at the end of burning. It always goes to the home position (right rear corner). I would like the laser head to stay at the job origin and only go to the home position by manually controlling it from the controller. This works great with a diode laser, but I can’t figure out how to get the same functionality for a CO2 laser.
Is there anything that can be done about these things in Lightburn or do I just have to adapt.
What do you mean by this? Other than homing and origin location, in normal use nothing should be mirrored and you should have no functional difference in how LightBurn operates.
As far as I know this cannot be done. It seems on Ruida machines that home location and origin location must be the same.
First make sure that what you think is happening is actually happening. Typically the machine will return to its user origin. This is likely to be at the same location as absolute origin unless you’ve pushed the “origin” key on your panel somewhere else. So it may not be set to return to the absolute origin but just seems that way.
You can change whether it goes to user origin or absolute origin after a job. Check out this Topic.