So I have been working on getting my Wazer to work with LightBurn using the custom GCode device. I have also converted the materials library to a LightBurn library. The machine can be imported in the device’s menu and the library in the libraries panel.
I am still working on finetuning this but so far it’s working great!
Github:
That is a cool idea!!! I use Lightburn with my fiber laser and it’s a really great program. I really don’t care for the web-based WAM software. I love the idea of making gcodes from Lightburn!!
This is great seems to work well. Sometimes I need to use both the Wazer and laser on the same project this should improve the precision.
Any ideas on how to include tabs to the design?
when i export gcode it seems that the scaling is off by a factor of 10 the image looks fine in lightburn but the code is wrong. for a simple square 30 by 30 mm the gcode shows a maximum x and y excursion of 3 mm not 30
various wazer specific codes seem totally out of range. for example the size of the cut envelope is wrong.
is there a step i am missing to get lightburn to output correct gcode files? i added the device from the github download as well as the material list.
is there something else that needs to be done? what about the python code? how about some better documentation?
i can’t get it to work please share your secrets
Should be something with the units. The wazer uses the G21 command to set it to millimeter mode. You can try removing the G21 command in the machine settings under the gcode tab. This should put the wazer it in inches mode. You can ignore the other files they are just for testing. The python script can upload gcode files to the wazer using a USB cable.
all of my files are metric but it is acting like they are imperial and being cut as metric. if they were in inches i could understand this but they are not.
M1405 and M1406 are much smaller than they should be
first is a 40 mm square gcode made by WAM then same dxf gcode made by Lightburn
;-------------------------------Cut file parameters------------------------
; Input file name : 40-mmsquare.dxf
; File rotation : 0 File scale : 1
; Material name : Aluminum 7075
; Material thickness : 0.016 in
; Cut path : Centerline
; Cut quality : fineRate
; Raw Material width : 1.57in
; Raw Material height : 1.58in
;-------------------------------Do Not modify the Gcode file---------------
G90
G21
M1403
M1405 X187.84 Y-189.30
M1406 X227.84 Y-229.30
M1407 S3.0
M1410 1.7; Generated on Wam
M1411 Aluminum 7075
M1412 0.016 in
G0 X187.84 Y-229.30
M3
M8
G4 S3.
G1 X187.84 Y-224.30 F176.50
G1 X187.84 Y-219.30
G1 X187.84 Y-214.30
G1 X187.84 Y-209.30
G1 X187.84 Y-204.30
G1 X187.84 Y-199.30 F150.03
G1 X187.84 Y-194.30 F114.73
G1 X187.84 Y-189.30 F79.43
G1 X192.84 Y-189.30 F114.73
G1 X197.84 Y-189.30 F150.03
G1 X202.84 Y-189.30 F176.50
G1 X207.84 Y-189.30
G1 X212.84 Y-189.30
G1 X217.84 Y-189.30 F150.03
G1 X222.84 Y-189.30 F114.73
G1 X227.84 Y-189.30 F79.43
G1 X227.84 Y-194.30 F114.73
G1 X227.84 Y-199.30 F150.03
G1 X227.84 Y-204.30 F176.50
G1 X227.84 Y-209.30
G1 X227.84 Y-214.30
G1 X227.84 Y-219.30 F150.03
G1 X227.84 Y-224.30 F114.73
G1 X227.84 Y-229.30 F79.43
G1 X227.84 Y-229.30
G1 X222.84 Y-229.30 F114.73
G1 X217.84 Y-229.30 F150.03
G1 X212.84 Y-229.30
G1 X207.84 Y-229.30 F114.73
G1 X207.84 Y-229.30 F79.43
G1 X202.84 Y-229.30 F114.73
G1 X197.84 Y-229.30 F150.03
G1 X192.84 Y-229.30 F132.38
G1 X187.84 Y-229.30 F88.25
G1 X187.84 Y-229.30
G4 S1.
M9
G4 S1.
M5
G4 S1.
M1413 00:01:13
M1404
from lightburn:
M1403
M1405 X0.00 Y-0.00
M1406 X1.00 Y-10.00
M1407 S1.0
M1410 1.5
M1411 LightBurn
M1412 Gcode
G00 G17 G40 G21 G54
G90
G0 X187.817Y-181.817
G1 X188.142Y-181.833F10.25
G1 X188.458Y-181.882
G1 X188.763Y-181.96
G1 X189.056Y-182.067
G1 X189.334Y-182.201
G1 X189.597Y-182.361
G1 X189.842Y-182.544
G1 X190.068Y-182.749
G1 X190.273Y-182.975
G1 X190.456Y-183.22
G1 X190.616Y-183.483
G1 X190.75Y-183.761
G1 X190.857Y-184.053
G1 X190.935Y-184.358
G1 X190.984Y-184.675
G1 X191Y-185
G1 Y-225
G1 X231
G1 Y-185
G1 X191
G90
M1413 00:00:00
M1404Is a camera an option? I use that on m y laser and love it. Probably need to remove the camera during cutting though.
@ChrisAnd1998 Have you still been using LightBurn for your Wazer? We just bought a galvo laser and I’m going to make a push to get LightBurn for it - even easier sales pitch if I can tell them it will make waterjetting better too.