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Lightburn cannot track laser movement

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02-15
Everything works great except lightburn is not tracking, in the program, my laser’s movement. The laser is burning, it works fine. But as you can see on the attached image, the upper green and red squares? Those never move.
Any advice is appreciated, I searched but didn’t find anything that helped, maybe just a link in the right direction? Appreciate it!
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    • Aaron

      02-17
      The green square marks the Job Origin, as set in the nine-dot selection in the Laser Window:
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      • Aaron

        : The red square marks the Machine Origin, as set in the four-dot selection in the Device Settings window:

      • Aaron
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        @Aaron

        : Neither of those track the current laser position. In fact, there’s no way to track the current position, because laser controllers do not report their position while they chew through the buffered commands. 3D printers run slowly enough that G-Code senders can dribble commands to them without affecting their performance and extract the coordinates from those commands without anybody noticing they’re not the actual positions, but lasers move much faster. LightBurn does have a progress thermometer, but it reports only the fraction of commands sent to G-Code machines. The Ruida controller in your machine (according to your profile) uses a binary command structure and has enough memory to accept all but the largest jobs in one gulp; the status thermometer may not even be visible. The controller does not report any status while running, so there’s no way to know what’s going on in there. So, basically, watch the machine to monitor its progress.

      • Ethan
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        @Aaron

        : Appreciate it Ed. This is super helpful, I was just worried I was missing out, not using the software up to its full capabitlities, so its comforting knowing its not a ‘me’ issue, ha.

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