Strange behaviour using different machine profiles with rotary

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Hi,

I have used 2 machine profile before with my diode laser. 1 for normal work and one for using the rotary - works fine.

Now I have a CO2 laser with a Ruida controller and added a new profile.

First thing I noticed: If I activate the rotary in the dialog and close the dialog. The rotary button in the toolbar is not green and I see no green notice and in the status bar, that the rotary is active.

But the rotary works fine (after power cycle the laser) .

Now I tried to add another profile (one for normal and one for rotary) like I before with my diode laser. But this is not working. The rotary active state is not handled correcty. I can not switch between profile to activate and deactivate the rotary.

The rotary state stays the some while changing Ruida profiles. Like I said, works fine the my diode gbrl profiles.

( I am using the lastest preview version of Lightburn)

Any ideas ?

Regards,

Ingo

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Unlike GRBL controllers, Ruida controllers must be told the rotary is connected, so you must manually enable Rotary Mode when using it.

Using different profiles is a good idea, but Ruida controllers need more cajoling. :grin:

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I understand that the controller need some configuration for the y axis - remove limits etc.

But where is the problem, to store the active / not active state in the profile and after changing the profile, just send the the right config data for the controller, depending on the active/not active state.

Then you just have to reset the ruida controller at the machine after chaging the profile and everything is fine.

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The device configurations don’t send the command to the Ruida controller to set up its internal rotary state, so you must do that manually.

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Would be a nice feature for an upcoming version of lightburn. Then the rotary state could also be shown in the status bar…

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