Understanding Lightburn Origins, Absolute Coordinates & Settings!

hey it's rich the louisiana hobby guy today we're going to be talking about probably one of the first videos i should have ever made talking about light burn training because all of a sudden i've gotten a rash of questions on this particular topic positioning your work on the work bit and how do you you know absolute positions and user origin and all this kind of stuff so uh we're going to address that today and i'm going to make it simple i'm going to make it real simple in a way that you can understand so that you'll never have a question as to how to set up your your work on your work bed again and like i said this probably should have been one of the very first videos that i ever made for uh light burn training but before we get into that i want to ask you guys a favor and here it is this is my new instagram account and i'm feeling kind of lonely over there now somebody told me that you know uh you can get a a lot of followers and you can help out your subscribers by posting uh you know behind the scenes pictures and videos on instagram and you gotta be on the ig in order to uh do well on youtube so i finally broke down and i don't really like to be on here because you know with my my lowly little six posts and eight followers um and a few people that i'm following so far uh you know i've made a couple comments and you get some really nasty comments in in return but uh you know i know you guys are not gonna make nasty comments so i'm gonna ask you a favor today you know um i do all of these video trainings for you and i just want if you have an instagram account you know come keep me company over here uh take a minute after the video and jump on your phone go to find louisiana hobby guy on instagram and uh follow me there i'll make a couple of comments and uh you know keep me from feeling so lonely with no subscribers so yeah there's my pitch for today now let's get into the video and i'm gonna apologize in advance i'm like on i don't know what the ninth day of covid miss or something like that so my voice kind of is coming and going and i still have a little bit of a fever you know going on and but nothing's going to keep me from the shop and from making videos what i love to do so uh i'm out here today and uh i wanted to now i've got let let me uh preface this and i know a lot of you probably hate all these long-winded things but i i think it's important and i want to share it with you so uh i had an elderly gentleman about two months ago that messaged me on facebook and asked me if i could help him get his laser set up now he's been in the laser business for uh 15 years and he makes some really outstanding artwork on lasers but his twenty five thousand dollar laser broke down and uh co2 and he bought a diode laser and he couldn't get it to work so i said no problem i helped him out and then i got everything working for him via remote control and um last two weeks ago he messaged me again and he said you know everything's working great i'm doing my artwork i'm burning my he burns his artwork onto slate coasters one by one takes about 90 minutes or more to design one coaster and i taught him how to do that with the note editing and uh he was very grateful for that and so he takes anywhere from 60 to 90 or even more time designing one coaster and then he he burns to one coaster and then he goes back to designing the next one well his problem was he could never get the coaster to burn in the same place twice so uh same exact place twice and you know the very first thing that i do when i buy anything doesn't matter what it is whether it's light burn software or microwave or a new car the very first thing that i do is i take out the owners manual and i uh read through it and i study it and i learn what it is that i bought and that is the very first thing that you should do with light burn because light burn has this great documentation and i've even thought about changing the name of this channel to f1 and the reason why well if you pass your mouse over any of these icons or anything that you see on the screen here and hit that f1 button you get the most fabulous documentation you could ever possibly imagine that pops up and you know and you can read step by step how to use that particular function and uh i know everybody says uh you know i'm a light guru and all this kind of stuff and none of that is true what what i do is uh every new thing that i do i read the manual so it all comes from from jason you know the person that designed this software and uh everything that i teach you i'm just teaching you a fraction of what you probably should know i'm just teaching you how i use the software that's all so getting back to the elderly gentleman two weeks ago he said i'd like to get everything you know so i could just drop the tile on and hit start after i design it and i said well sure that's no problem run down to the hardware store get yourself a little square a framing square maybe a foot by a foot and uh some double-sided tape and i'll call you in two hours so two hours later i called him i took control of his computer and i burned a one foot by one foot l shaped line on his work bed on his waistboard and i said now take the double-sided tape put it on the back of that framing square and go ahead and lay that down on the board and get it exactly on that line which he did and then i went ahead and i set up his computer to use origin and showed him what i was doing how i was doing it and it'll probably never have to change so a couple days later he he uh wrote me an email and he said oh this is just so absolutely fantastic you know i i wish i would have known this before i would have saved hours and hours of time well i just assume that people know this stuff the the things that i don't teach uh in these videos are things that i just assume that everybody knows and wouldn't you know yeah have you heard the old saying you know when it rains it pours well that was the case here too because in this last two weeks i've probably gotten maybe 10 messages on messenger and just a whole bunch 15 20 or more emails from people asking me about positioning their work and why it's not working for them so after all that long diatribe let's just get into it and uh let me show you how i do it and how you can do it too and be precise every single time so people ask me about uh coordinates and why i if you if you look over here why i'm always in absolute coordinates and there's a reason for it is because i like to maybe it's an ocd thing i don't know but when i put this right here in the middle of this square this particular piece right here i want it to burn in the middle of that square so it's just a thing for me you know absolute coordinates and this is the way that i use it absolute coordinates means that these numbers across the top from 0 to 400 on my laser and on the side from 0 to 400 wherever you put it and you tell the laser to go if i say go to 200 200 i know it's going to be exactly right there in the middle and that's what absolute coordinates are so now we know what absolute coordinates are and let me show you and it's easier i think show and tell is easier than anything else so i've disconnected the laser camera and i've put on my webcam and instead so i'm going to bring the webcam out over here and make it a little bigger so that you can see what i'm talking about now the very first thing you should always do is home your machine you know when you start and i know it homes by itself when you first started up but after you're working for a while and usually before every job that i do i'm going to re-home the machine just so that i know or at the very least i'm going to come over here to the move tab i'm going to click get position and make sure that these numbers x and y are 0 and 0 that way i know that it's perfectly home and then it's going to match up with my grid that's on on my work bed here so let me show you on laser i'm in absolute coordinates right here what that means i am at 200 on on the y excuse me and i'm at 200 on the x so if i follow this across let me select this so that you can see it see that dot is dead smack center in the 200 200 so if i were to come and say frame this job right now with my framing button my laser will come over and frame a perfect job exactly at 200 and 200 and if i were to take this and move it off over to the center of this square over here and hit frame it will frame exactly in the middle of that square over there that's absolute coordinates it's really um exactly what it says absolute coordinates okay so that's number one uh now that the reason i like that is because i know that everything is perfectly set up and i always use a grid on my screen and that that way i can make sure i can just drop like if these were coasters i could drop these in here i could duplicate this and and put it in all six of these squares and know that it's gonna burn perfectly okay so let's move on to the next one let's go to um user origin and there's not much of a difference between oh let me say one other thing now you notice in absolute coordinates there is no job origin okay it's grayed out you can't use it and let's come down here and and just uh i i see people talking on discussion boards and and other platforms and they talk about this red dot down here the red dot let me move this over just a little bit the red dot down there is your machine origin okay has nothing to do with anything that you're gonna do okay so you may have a co2 you may have the top right top left that that's just how light burn communicates with your device forget about that that red dot red dot is meaningless the green dot is your job origin and that's really what we're talking about today is job origin so as long as you've set up your machine uh when you first got it with the proper or origin for that red dot and you know light burn is pretty much going to set up most machines automatically you never have to think about that again okay so let's forget about that red dot and let's concentrate on the green one instead so now if i go to user origin uh i want you to notice that the green dot has disappeared from the bottom left corner it has moved directly to the center of my user piece here and let me just put it in the bottom left corner so you can see it now you can see see the green dot okay so that's the user origin i'm going to put it back in the middle for a second and uh well i may as well move this over to the middle here because you'll have a better view on the camera here what what's happening so now i've got user origin set and i've got it set to the middle all right what i'm going to do is come to the move tab and actually i'm going to come over here to the uh get the get laser position and i'm going to click on this and i'm going to move the laser directly to this dot i'm going to click on this dot in the middle and that's going to move my laser directly to the middle to exactly 200 and 200 okay and this is my job origin here so on the move tab i'm going to say get position it says 200 200 and i'm going to click set origin and that's done okay so now we have our origin our user origin is now set to the middle and light burn knows it because we've we've verified it here 200 and 200 and we've set the origin so if i were to frame now you'll see that it'll make a perfect frame in that 200 and 200 position directly center of the workbench now here's where i think people get confused is there are nine different user origin positions that you can set independently without going back to the move tab so if i were to click the bottom left use origin down here keep in mind that what we're looking at here the top is the bottom so it's reversed so it's going to frame out from the middle up this way if i hit frame you see how that works so it's framing from the middle out if i were to hit bottom right over here and use the origin and hit frame it's going to do top left like that so if we had let's say we had a 12 inch square piece here we wanted to do this four times well we would first start here and we would hit the start button i'm just doing frame right now just as an example and that would do the the top left corner of that 12 inch piece then i'd come over here and click this corner and hit frame and it would do that corner of that 12 inch piece and so on and then if i click this one it will do the bottom right side and then just because we've done all three of them we may as well do all four it'll do the bottom left side and that's what the all of these dots are here so and it also works from out to the left to the side so if we were to do the side it would do center side but typically you're going to be using this center right here so using the center it's always going to frame exactly in the center and now that we have the origin set the user origin set none of these coordinates on or and none of these little squares that you see all over the screen matter anymore so they're all just there for decoration if i were to take this and move it anywhere it doesn't matter where it is and hit frame it's still going to frame in that same exact spot every single time so um now getting back to the the elderly gentleman so that's the way i set his up uh was something like this and this way it would frame right on that l-shaped burn that i made in his uh work bed every single time and no matter where he designed and he designs off the work bed this way he could zoom in and he has a nice clean you know pallet to work on and then he puts his coaster in the spot where the framing square is and he just hit start and it goes to work and it burns the perfect coaster for him so there's not much of a difference or at least i don't know what the difference is between user origin and current position they both do about the same thing so uh and i never really took the time to find out exactly what the difference is between the two but um i don't think that you'll ever be using uh you know if you use one or you use the other they both work exactly the same way user origin and current position so the only two that i use are user origin and absolute coordinates so um if i were to take this and bring it over to uh well let's say some odd position like right there and hit frame you'll see that it'll frame in that odd position and this is just the way that i like to do it i mean i i like to work off of this grid right here using absolute uh coordinates you can use whatever you want but um like i said the so now the uh the elderly gentleman you're probably wondering well what happens now that you shut down the computer and you shut down the machine and uh so on well it's pretty simple uh when you come back online so uh let's just say that uh this corner right here is where his the corner of his framing square is well all he has to do is take and grab the move uh come over to the corner like so uh come to the move tab fire the laser and dial this in right exactly to the corner um of where he's got that framing square and then he just clicks get position and set while he's in uh user origin right here and that's it he's done so uh he he picks the corner again and he knows to do all this because i showed it to him so he comes to use origin he picks that corner the way we had set it up comes to the move tab moves the laser head jogs the laser head using the arrow keys here uh fires the laser make sure that he gets it to exactly in that corner and clicks set origin and that's it so uh you know none of this is a mystery it's all in the documentation everything is the f1 key is your friend if you have a question about something pass your mouse over the icon or the function and hit that f1 key and that'll bring up in a internet browser tab all of the information for that particular function so what what i teach you is just the things that i've learned by hitting that f1 key and how i use my lasers and you know i had a guy on uh one of the other forums that uh wrote a post and he said um boy i'm glad i bought this piece of junk off of amazon i'm going to be sending it back because it doesn't work well you know what i don't think i've ever seen one that just doesn't work so i answered them and i said well what doesn't work and he said well you know it's going off into these negative hundreds and thousands of coordinates and all of this crazy stuff and i said well did you read the documentation and i sent him a link to fix the problem that he was having right then and there and then he answered me the next day and said oh well that fixed the problem i said yeah you know it's all user error so all you have to do is all i did was go to the function and click the f1 key in i copied that url and pasted it in this reply for you to go and read you could have done this yourself just by hitting that f1 key reading the documentation you know i'm sure jason the the developer the owner of lightburn gets a kick out of watching my videos because you know i mean just because everything that i do works doesn't mean that it's the right way to do it it's the right way that i do it it's the way that i get results but it may not necessarily be doing it by the book which i guess i don't do everything by the book but i know how the functions work and i know how they work for me and that's what i pass on to you is pretty much how all of the functions work and how i get light burn to work with my lasers and do exactly what i needed to do so uh with that said uh i'm gonna end this longer than it should have been video and i thank you for watching and i want everybody to have a great fabulous new year i'll be so glad to get out of 2021 and into 2022. but i guess i said that about 2019 getting into 2020 and getting into 2021 and well i hope soon all of this craziness ends and hey if you're going out drinking take a cab home or do it at home but have yourself a great new year i'll see you on the other side 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Channel: The Louisiana Hobby Guy

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Length: 23min 53sec (1433 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 28 2021