I just got the new Octo 44W JTech laser. Works really well. This is my first laser experience but I am an early adopter of the Onefinity and have upgraded it to the Journeyman.
One of the things that I feel would be very useful is to build a locater beam or a framing operation into every export of gcode. Currently I am working on learning lightburn.
The idea I have is to build in a prompt for user input while the laser is firing a locating do or a loop of framing code with a very low power dot.
I think based on the LinuxCNC documentation I should be able to build this in using the if and repeat flow control options to cycle a framing code block x number of times.
(LinuxCNC "G-code" Quick Reference)
I realize I can only prompt with a message to continue and not have any actual input to control the logic pattern.
Has anyone done anything like this?
My alternate idea was a simple box as its own layer and speed\power settings so i can just keep re-running a framing file until it is aligned. Much simpler obviously.
Let me know how you align your materials.