WeCreat Vision with LightBurn Just Stops After Sending Job

So after a few attempts I was able to complete the camera focus wizard and so far that is about it :confused:

I started a chat with WeCreat support and their posision is that they support LightBurn and this must be a LightBurn software issue naturally

What happens is the laser kicks on like it’s going to do the work and then burns a line and just stops.

all other commands seem to be working as far as focus and framing go.

Thank you in advance for any help :vulcan_salute:

Notes:

  1. I am connecting via USB and have verified the COM and other commands are working
  2. Using the WeCreat software via USB or WiFi both work
  3. When changing between LightBurn and WeCreat the laser is power cycled before the application is opened (neither app running at the same time)

Hello Chris,

I believe, this is an older issue that has been resolved by a WeCreat firmware update already.

Which version is on your machine?

Are you setting up the Vision by following the instructions from here?:

Hi @Aaron.F ,

thank you for the response, I did an email reply but not seeing it here so if there end up being two I’ll try to clean up later

I am using the latest file from WeCreat

and am up to date on all Firmware according to MakeIt

and am connecting via USB

I did see a similar issue in a post around using the WiFi, while the laser WiFi is configured the connection in use is USB. I wonder if having the WiFi configured could be related to this bug :confused:

Using MakeIt both connections burn successfully

hi @workabyte,

I implemented the WeCreat support initially, and one thing I am still a little frustrated with WeCreat is that they didn’t create a proper bundle file with the device configuration for the Vision.

I’m attaching a bundle file of my config for the 20W device, please try and let me know if this resolves your issue at all? The reason I’m frustrated is because there are a few tweaks that I have made that seem to work better than the configuration they provide with their .lbdev file.

Please let @Aaron.F and I know if it helps resolve your issue, and we can push harder with WeCreat.
WeCreat_LB_1.7.03_11-dec-2024.lbzip (29.8 KB)

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@goeland86 I will give this a go a bit later tonight, I also have a support issue open with WeCreat and have them pointed to this post. If this helps I will help apply that pressure, I have 4 start (down from 5 star review on their amazon listing) that is going to need to be updated with this entire experience so I would like to think that matters to them being that 16 people have already found it helpful :smile:

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@Aaron.F sadly this did not help the issue. I was able to / had to re-process the camera focus and that worked but when I tried my next bit I get the same results.

being that the camera project did burn and the one I am doing now did not it occurs to me it might be related to the “cut selected graphics” feature as I do have that on and am only trying to process the selected portion of my project.

when I disabled that it does appear to process as expected.

  • Is this a known issue I should already know about?
  • Is there a known issues / supported features list?

thank you again :smile:

Sorry, I don’t follow you. Do you mean the “Camera Lens Calibration” or “Alignment”?

Is the basic functionality working?

Please read up on the “Cut Selected Graphics” setting. You can always use the preview to see, what’s being sent to the laser.

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@Aaron.F && @goeland86 overall findings thus far is that the “Cut Selected Graphics” does not work for the WeCreat laser.

Sorry, I don’t follow you. Do you mean the “Camera Lens Calibration” or “Alignment”?

@Aaron.F, so the WeCreat camera is “pre calibrated” so it was the “alignment” process that sends over the 1 → 4 circles. That sent successfully and was my hint on the “Cut Selected” as the underlying issue I was having when trying to process my project.

Thank you for clarifying this. I wasn’t aware.

Version 1.7.04 just got out. Can You give it a try with the “Cut Selected Graphics”? I hear, there was an issue (not WeCreat specific) that got fixed in the latest version.

Does this file extension need to be renamed to .zip to uncompressed or .lbdev to be imported?

Haven’t had enough coffee yet, so maybe I’m missing something obvious but Lightburn isn’t seeing this for me.

No it’s the new bundle format that was introduced in 1.6 I think? Might have been 1.7. being on the other side I forget what was released when if I don’t look at the release notes.

You should be able to find it in File->Bundles->import bundle

Ah ok, thank you. Never seen that format before was was trying to import it in the device manager like I’ve done in the past. Lol

@Aaron.F

Have you had any luck getting Wecreat to work in Lightburn with overscanning and Scanning Offset Adjustment enabled?

It runs fairly well without those turned on, but images are extremely blurry and uneven. When I enable one or both of those the machine slows way down, then head getting a little jerky, and jobs take about twice as long as estimated.

Sorry to hammer you with questions … Been trying to get Lightburn to work with this thing for months and was comparing your setup to the one Wecreat provided.

In the Custom Gcode tab they have M16 as part of their Start Gcode. Noticed that this wasn’t in the bundle you created.

What’s that command do? Curious what difference having it in there makes vs not having it.

Oh. That’s a great question - I don’t actually know. They didn’t really give us a full g-code breakdown of their firmware…

I remember I had noticed one command that was necessary that I had missed in the start and end gcodes… After launching a job with it I realized it was to turn on/off the toolhead fan (i.e. to cool the LEDs). But now I don’t remember the exact command off the top of my head.

I’ll be back in the workshop on Monday, and can double-check it on my device then.

My suggestion is to add it in - if they have it, it’s for a reason.

Double check the end gcode as well?

I’ll try to update my bundle file ASAP so others realize that the original bundle I provided had issues.

Basically the big difference should be in the Probe Z section - they didn’t set one up, where I added in M103 as the command that’s needed for that.

Now keep in mind that it will run the focus sequence above where the toolhead is, not based on where the design is laid out in LB like it would in their Make It! software.

The end one is there. I know the other two start have to do with starting the head and exhaust fan. Just wasn’t sure what the M16 did.

The Z stuff wasn’t enabled, but I knew from past experience messing with them which to turn on and set the z offset in layers.

I started using the command to move the laser to the design and run the focus to get the material height, setting it in layers, then hit stop to sent the laser back home. I can only really get the camera to be consistent when the machine is all the way up. I’ll then place the objects and start.

Everything else looked pretty much the same as the other custom device settings I’ve tried that didn’t come from wecreat.

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@Aaron.F sorry for the delay but I do have good news as it does appear to be working with the cut selected option on!

not to figure out how to do the rest as I am still BRAND NEW all of this :rofl:

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