I am hoping to switch to LIghtburn from Ezcad2 for my galvo fiber laser (currently setup using EZCAD2).
One feature i use in Ezcad2 is the “Splitmark2” operation which allows you to control a linear axis and split a larger image up over the travel of the axis. Its quite similar I think to how the rotary function works now in lightburn. ONe difference seems to be though that there is no home switch in lightburn. Otherwise i think you could just say its a rotary and set the parameters accordingly, as lightburn doesnt know if it is really a rotary axis or not… Is there any way to “home” the rotary in lightburn or anyway to set lightburn to split an image for galvo using a linear axis?
Here is the ezcad2 feature for reference and a picture of the actual machine to hopefully make it more clear what i am asking about.
I’m running a similar setup and would love a good solution for this as well. If there’s a way to manually zero (home) in the current rotary axis control that may be a temporary work around without using the home switch. Not ideal though.
Running my linear axis on my ezcad3 machine is heaps better, but there are still a couple of basic things that are missing that would make this single axis system really awesome.
Ok thank for your reply. It would be amazing if it was added. Unfortunately for work i really need split mark but that is the only reason i still use ezcad.
Great to hear. I have a real interest in getting this one going. Please let me know if I can assist with development in any way or potentially provide some ready to run hardware.
I have repeat marking now working, for either rotating or linear work tables. This isn’t split marking, but the settings pages for configuring the external axis are the same, so a lot of the work is done.