Workspace not matching engraver workarea, laser diode not cutting at full power

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

I am going to offer this post as a suggested approach to help you get your system set properly. It is for a different system but these differences should not cause concern.

Configuring a 3018 CNC (or other CNC-based laser) for use with LightBurn

The summary: Turn on Laser Mode to get rid of the travel lines You’re trying to move too fast, which is why you don’t get enough power You need to zero the machine 3018’s are pre-configured for use as CNC machines, not lasers, so their settings and speeds will likely need to be changed to give you acceptable results with LightBurn. To see the existing settings, you can type $$ into the console in LightBurn and press enter, or go to Edit > Machine Settings. Both are showing the same values, b…

Read this, follow these steps and we can go from there.