Hello. I am following the Lightburn tutorials in order to learn. Had my Ortur Master 2 for about a month. In tutorial #2 I followed along with all the steps, creating 3 layers, the final layer being the cut layer. No matter what I did, nothing advanced beyond layer 2; so layer 3, the cut layer didn’t fire. I watched the video several times to be sure I wasn’t missing anything.
Any suggestions?
Do you have the layer enabled?
Good question. I checked by opening the file today and that layers is enabled, so I assume it was also yesterday. I’ll be back at it in a couple days and will let you know if anything changes. Thanks for your response!
Without seeing your file and the settings you used it’s hard to say, but there are a number of reasons this could happen. LightBurn will discard shapes that are outside the bounds of your laser working area by default, so if the outer shape is slightly crossing the bounds, that could be it.
Thanks. I think you are on to something there. I have been having some problems with getting reset messages I think because I am out of bounds somehow even though it looks like I am okay.
I should have thought of this because I do get a warning that says it may be out but continue anyway.
To get Lightburn to work on opening I usually have to go into GRBL, set my x y to 0 there, disconnect Grbl, reconnect Lightburn, and then I can start in LightBurn.
Even though I hit the home button and that responds I still seem to be out of bounds somewhere, So I guess my real question is how do I identify where Lightburn sees me out of bounds and correct it? File attached.
Thanks for all your help!
TandGWiFiQR.lbrn (49.6 KB)
I should mention I am using an Ortur Master 2. It has limit switches and homing is enabled. Computer is Win 10.
You might’ve chosen ‘XCarve’ or ‘Shapeoko’ when you set up the machine, and used the ‘Use Laser’ macro. I’ve seen this happen a bunch with people using Ortur machines - It’s asking “Do you own one of these two machines, or no?” and people seem to be compelled to say “Yes!” whether they do or not.
In the console, after connecting to the machine, type the following in the console:
$#
If the line that starts with “[G54:” shows anything other than a bunch of zeros, you have an offset programmed, likely because you chose the a machine you don’t have. To clear that, type this command:
G10 L2 P1 X0 Y0
Thanks, Oz. I will give that a try and report back. I appreciate your help!
Reporting back. That cured my issue. Thank you very much, Oz. I hadn’t chosen XCarve or Shakeopo but I did have to set up my Ortur manually. I suspect a previous project I downloaded is to blame for changing settings.
I followed your advice and entered the commands, and all is well.
On to tutorial #3!