I’ve been struggling to set up my Sculpfun G9 with LightBurn Pro for the past week, and I’m honestly out of ideas on what else to try to get it working.
I haven’t been able to find any helpful tutorials or guides for the setup.
Currently, the G9 shows up as a USB device, but from what I understand, it needs to appear as a COM port. I’ve tried installing the CH340 driver, but it only says “driver has been pre-installed.”
When I go through the LightBurn setup, I get to the point where it asks where the laser origin is (front right, back right), but I can’t find any information specific to the G9.
I would really appreciate it if someone could help me get this laser working because, at this point, I’m honestly losing my patience…
As Gil said, you need to install the Cypress driver. Did you try SGD laser application to control it? LightBurn is not officially supported yet. You need to import a device profile for the G9 which is not officially available yet. Though I can provide it to you for testing purposes (there are still quite some issues to be solved).
I did try the SGD laser software and it works fine i just would like to use lightburn. Are you able to actually use the software with this device profile?
“Use” is relative I got something working sometimes, but sometimes it simply does not. Currently, with the latest 2.0 RC2, all the major functions seem to work, but the laser output has no power. But I only did some quick tests lately.
Go ahead with SGD. You can design your projects in LB, export it as SVG and then send it via SGD. That’s currently the best way to go. People are working on better support, but that’s still ongoing.
No. Those lasers don’t work like that. You can even have two tools (like SGD and LightBurn) using the same laser at the same time.
If SGD does detect the laser, LB does as well.
I sent it to you. Most functions seem to work mostly, but to get some output power, you need to start SGD once, send some project to the laser and then LB seems to output power too. If you only start LB, you can frame and start a project, but it seems to be lasered at 1% or so all the time.
I don’t know if the laser keeps the last power you send via SGD, so you might need to set the percentage via SGD and then start the project in LB.
I got something working sometimes, but sometimes it simply does not. Currently, with the latest 2.0 RC2, all the major functions seem to work, but the laser output has no power. But I only did some quick tests lately.