It interferes with the laser power but does not stop the X/Y/Z programmed moves!īe careful when trying out some ‘button’ and some other ‘menu’ features in Lightburn - some won’t work and might give unpredictable results with the Snapmaker. If you use a Snapmaker 2.0 official enclosure (which has door detection switches) you have to turn OFF door detection in the controller>enclosure settings whilst using Lightburn.

Recently: Was using LB version 9.14, updated to 9.16 (latest) and experienced issues with intermittent stopping part way through a test path. You can test by jogging (safely) the head unit using the controls under the ‘Move’ tab. You can do this once your SM2 is connected and powered up via USB by going to DEVICE MANAGER in windows and checking the port allocation number, in my case it’s COM6 - see below It’s important that you ensure a correctly installed CH340 virtual COM port prior to setting up LB. You can manually adjust the height of the laser for the DIFFERENCE in material thicknesses from this position and then re-zeroing the Z work co-ordinate so that multi-pass multi-depth Z moves will be valid. Then set working co-ordinates X&Y to suit and that then refers to your bottom left reference in Lightburn.īy doing the height setup on the controller (lowering it carefully down on to a known thickness of material that you declare in the controller) and then running auto focus calibration the controller stores a laser height value (the work coordinate Z value is that plus the material thickness) and this is seen on the front page of the controller. Reach me at visit suggested by here is rough guide which I hope will help other users to get their Snapmaker 2.0’s working with Lightburn Software.įirst steps with a freshly powered on SM2 is to use the calibration method in the controller taking into account the material thickness and the automated focusing and that sets a focus height that’s referenced in machine Z co-ordinate. If you have any questions related to CNC, I'd be happy to answer them.

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