Apologies to those who have helped me. I do like to report back and specify what solved a problem I’ve posted about. I’ve been overwhelmed with all the new things I’m having to learn with my Shapeoko, the JTech laser, LightBurn, as well as two different 3D printers, and different slicers for them. That, along with helping my wife with a new business we bought (that she’s managing), took it’s toll. I also needed help with this situation.
This is something I need to solve, so I’ll be tackling it this week. I have a few things I want to get done within this week or so, which means I’ll have to figure out what was making things so slow (and there are some interesting suggestions here) and why the inside of some shapes were not burning. One thought is that it did not occur to me to watch the laser and see if the laser was actually cutting off and just etching outlines or if it could be something else.
(I know, to check if the beam is on, that means looking at it without glasses - I am NOT going to do that. I have used my phone to take videos of it when it’s working and have seen that the laser shows up on the phone, so I can see if it’s on or not by looking at my phone with my protective glasses on.)