Unable to burn a project after upgrade to 2.0.4... even after backing down to 1.7.03

Hoping someone can help! After upgrade to 2.0.4, my work area was reset to just over 11 inches, instead of 17 (which is my actual work area size). When I line things up and frame the project, everything is fine… when I click START, the head moves left and grinds against the left side of the frame, then moves all the way to the right and grinds against the right side… continues this until I force it to stop! I tried changing the work area size to 17, but that didn’t help. I’ve tried using User Origin and Current Position… have tried starting from center, and also from lower left corner… neither does anything to help. Prior to the upgrade, projects would burn just fine.

I have a Latitool F60 with a replacement laser AENBUSLM 80W. Please help!

Please show us your preview screenshot. Enable “show traversal moves”

Check your OVERSCAN setting

Hi Jim! Thanks for your reply! Once I turned on “show traversal moves" I immediately saw the issue. When I researched what overscan is, I got it figured out… for one pass! Had it going, but speed was too fast and power too low so it didn’t burn anything (after adjusting the overscan value). So I stopped the job, increased power, reduced speed (from 17000 to 3200), and now it’s doing it again! I turned off overscan but that didn’t help a bit! This thing was working perfectly until the upgrade and burning a test grid on a couple of different media.

Will be happy to send you any screen shots to help. Getting really frustrated with this thing!

Thanks!

Please post public screen shots if you can. The next guy that comes along with that problem just may find your answer helpful.

Copy a screen shot of your workspace.

And of your cuts and layers window

And of your preview screen

Shift+win+S opens the screenshot tool. Ctrl+c to copy and Ctrl+v to paster here in the reply window.

Here’s the work area with the Cuts/Layers window too:

Details from the Layer:

And the preview:

Contemplating starting from scratch to see if it helps… just can’t figure out what’s going on with this project!

You have spec set at 3600 hours in/min. That is not a valid speed for your laser. Change the units to mm/min and then try 3600

That’s interesting! How does that get changed from mm to in? And how do I change it back?

Sometimes hinges change when updating.

It’s in the device settings menu

These get bumped sometimes during updates and bug fixes. I find it helpful to review these settings occasionally as a general exercise.