LightBurn Software Questions Tips and Tricks. jchuchla (Jon Chuchla) December 1, , pm 1. First off, I’m very new at laser machines. I’ve got a CNC background, but not used to cutting with light. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and am quickly finding that I have a newer model laser without a lot of info on the internet yet You could get this done within 8 copies and pastes. 2. Name the x-axis ‘speed’, and write the percentage tested on each column. Name the y-axis ‘power’, and match each row with the percentage tested. 3. In your laser cutting program, assign each colour a different setting. Start with low power and low speed. 4
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Depending on your laser, its firmware settings and limits, and the design, it may or may not actually reach this speed. The next two require a bit of explanation: Max Power: The power level to run the laser at. Min Power (DSP Only): The min power is used when the laser moves slowly, such as at the ends of lines and direction changes/ corners The trick is dialing in the speed and power. The image above was done with a W laser at mm/min (83mm/s) and % power using the Jarvis image dither mode. Your laser is more powerful so you could either decrease the power (percentage) or increase the speed if your machine can handle it, otherwise it will be darker I’m using latest Lightburn Software with an Endurance 10w+ Laser on an Eleksmaker A3 Plus. × KB. Rick (Technical Evangelist) December 22, , pm 6. The screen doesn’t allow you to modify the Min Power setting because on GRBL that’s only used when engraving grayscale images. Len-Tikular (George Pilch) December This matches your simulation speed settings in your screen capture. This may be optimistic for a GRBL controller. The information I do not have is ‘the engrave speed before and after the requested change in speed’. If you exceed the maximum allowable speeds set in $ through $ (or the speed capacity of the engraver controller) a
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Got Lightburn working but am only getting weak power out of the diode laser even at % in lightburn. It shows a light when cutting but this has no effect on anything. I have had it burning stuff before i put it away for a holiday and have focused it. seems to be a setting? Maybe. Advice I’ve had is to check $30 and $32 and they are 1 Apply settings like power, speed, number of passes, cut order, brightness & contrast, dithering mode, and many more! LightBurn is a native application written for Windows,