*If you skip through this video, you'll MISS several really important tips and tricks!*

@Pir8Gaming361

Жыл бұрын

I have lightburn and custom. Built a machine to my specs. What are the burn setting you used for your laser? FYI I blew my 5w laser neje and due to not buying from their shop I can't get it replaced or support. Now I have a 0.5w laser. Can you assist in the settings for lightburn using calv cold steel spray and rotary chuck?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

@@Pir8Gaming361 The settings are in the video.

Used this technique to engrave tumblers for my entire baseball team. Logo on the front, number and name on the back. It worked flawlessly! Thank you so much for sharing!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

8 ай бұрын

Excellent!

Huge thank you to LAhobbyguy this was very informative! Once again life saver for the beginner laser engravers!!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful Brian!

Thanks for the walk-thru on this. Very clear and concise. Good job.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Wayne!

Love what you do for the laser community. Thank you for your time it helps me and very short thousand more people! Thank you.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you!

Great video Rich, excellent results. Thanks for another roller video.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

You bet Rob, thanks for watching!

Another great video Rich! Thanks for taking the time to make such an informative video 👍 great job

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it David, thanks!

Once again, thank you! I'm lost without you! LMAO!!!! Seriously, you have saved me BIG TIME! THANK YOU SIR!!!!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching!

Hi Rich. Great video and great tip on how to simplify whole process . What a great feelings to be a Master of Universe with your work and knowledge about laser engraving and more. Thank you as always,

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful Bob! Thanks for the support!

Love your channel!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul! 👍

... and something I wanted to say to you sooo many times already - THANK YOU! 😀

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

No problem 😊

Another awesome video thanks Rich.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!!

Thanks Rich, I think I'll start with something easier 😊😊😊thank you for your time

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Good thinking Ray!

Absolutely did it again Rich! Knocked it outta the park. I think once you got in the frame of mind of actually running the job half way into the video, that it brought up some great detailed information. My tumblers turned out perfect as far as alignments on opposite faces of the tumblers, and overcoming brand logos on smaller tumbler mugs was also something I’ll be up against. But because I didn’t know what to do about white space, the tumbler was a 3 hour job @ 180mm/m on 10W library settings for stainless which was the closest my library settings had available for the job. I didn’t like the big speed difference from converting mm/s for coated metal in laserbox. The white space part of the video was a great addition to the topic. Will be handy for larger cutting boards etc. 🙏🏼

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped Jeffery! 👍

Nice video Rich ! - Hope to see you soon in the Philippines.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Maybe this year!

I have a RA2 haven't used it yet this video is going to help, thanks

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Welcome Philip.

great video yoda, i have struggled with the logo on a tumbler. thanks for clearing that up.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help Jim! 👍

this was another very interesting video rich.we learned something new.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Great Luc! Thank you!

Well that was very informative video, and you made it so easy to understand, I was able to follow so easy. One day soon I will get my roller set up on the laser, I am in the process of making the box for the 2nd laser, and then my 1st laser will be set up for roller, and 2nd laser for flat work.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, that sounds like a plan Ian!

Thank you for your videos so so helpful

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Another great informative video...Thanks!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it Rickie!

great information again. very complete. thanks

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful William!

Hi from Houma, La and from someone that is looking into the hobby and possibly even a little side cash. One of my hobbies is board games and I review them on my KZread channel. One of the uses I was looking for was to make custom inserts and boxes for some of the games. I am torn on which one to get. Most of the comparison videos seemed to be paid for and lean hard towards their sponsor. You review like I do, straight and honest, give the facts and let the viewer decide. (Plus being a local Louisiana guy is a bonus, haha). I'm looking doing some tumblers. Definitely stuff like the multilayer signs and Mothers day sign. Really would love to engrave stone coasters, like slate or sandstone. And definitely would love to do portraits on wood and tiles. Those wood coins you made a few months back gave me tons of ideas too. Plus something I can grow into. I see there are 20w quad diode lasers coming onto the market and seems like a great entry. Between the Atomstack, Xtool and Ortur, (probably others). Is there really much of a difference in quality of portraits and engraving? Or is more on dialing in the best setting? Kinda leaning towards the Xtool due to RA2 rotary, enclosure and the extensions available. But it is on the upper end of what I'm looking to spend. But appears to be worth it. Any advise or a good shove to one side of the fence or the other would be greatly appreciated.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Not really. I love all of my diode lasers.

Great job man! To speed up things you can enter substraction, addition multiplication and division directly in the writing field instead of opening the calculator...etc. See you next time!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I always forget that Guido! Thanks for the reminder.

Very informative. I need to get a rotary.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

You should Lonnie!

This is a great video!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so, thank you!

Thanks for another great video. I was thinking about doing two sided shot glasses and was basically heading down this path, thanks for confirming my theory. I'm sure you know this but for other LightBurn newbies like me, you don't have to open a calculator to quarter your initial tool path rectangle, just type /4 behind the number you want to divide, LightBurn will do the math for you.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I use Lightburn as a calculator, but not in the training videos Yertel. One thing at a time...

@yertelt5570

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Makes sense, one topic at a time and don't overwhelm people.

Thanks for sharing, awesome and informative video. Just wanted to say for those that may be 'math-phobic' the positioning could also be done by centering 1 graphic in the print area, centering the 2nd graphic on either of the ends of the workspace, then click both graphics and slide left or right until it is all within the workspace, without math, they are now 180 degrees our from each other

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Whatever works for you Ron! I like having them exactly positioned.

I thought your original video’s explanation was REALLY good, with the four boxes then getting rid of the middle two boxes. But then again I’m a Math guy. ;-)

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Whatever works for you!

The second one was clear and nice. The pink one looked good also but, as you said, hard to see.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

They are hard to see Merrill, but I do love the rose gold!

This is a great video. Thank you! For some reason I can’t wrap my brain around how to do a 3 sided glass. Any insight? Thank you.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I've never done one Erin, but the same principals should apply.

Awesome video! I'm over here trying to break put all sorts of formulas to get the other side positioned correctly 🤣 on thing I did find is doing round logos... make the width 10% wider to give the effect of if being round on the mug...I'm Still trying to figure out speed current running 3000mms/80%power and its still not giving a "shiny stainless" but more of an engraved metal look...using Atomstack stack x20

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I usually use the 8-10% rule on tapered tumblers, but these weren't tapered very much. I was just off 1mm on the steps Kevin.

@kevinstrickland6314

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy you make it look easy, I will say that 🤙

Another GREAT instructional video Rich Could you please provide the link for your honeybed hold down pins?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

They're free in my online store. engraveandcutfiles.com

Hi LA Hobby Guy I love the Nurse life design can you share that for me I want to make my daughter that design she is studying nursing, thank you in advance.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

10 ай бұрын

This was over a year ago. I have hundreds of libraries; I wouldn't know where to start looking for it.

Thanks for another great video Rich. I use an Ortur Master 2 Pro with an Ortur YRR and suffer from slight slippage in the Y (rotational) direction. I tried your suggestion of "Fill Shapes Individually", but found that "Fill all shapes at Once" and "Fill Groups Together" resulted in a no unwanted movement in the Y direction, so less chance to slip. We've discussed it previously in relation to a separate issue, but I engrave wood and like a line after fill to really make my text and graphics crisp. This is where I suffer a slight mismatch between engrave and line. The problem is that Lightburn wants to complete the full engrave before starting the line and therefore the YRR rotates the work all the way back to the beginning before starting the line and hence sometimes a mismatch in the Y direction. I have been searching for a setting which causes the line to be burned immediately after a section of graphics or text letter has been burned. Other than putting each section or letter on a different layer, which is sometimes impossible, I can't seem to find a way.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I don't know of one Doug, but the speed on the move tab should solve the problem.

@dougbennett1275

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy I keep any settings associated with movement in the Y direction to quite low values. e.g. Accel' Y ($121). I leave my woodturning in the big heavy lathe chuck which I rest on the 2 rollers of the YRR. I prevent any movement in the X direction by a small magnet, so it's never going to fly off like a tumbler might. With relevant settings slowed down, I don't have much of a problem these days. I may get a stepper motor driven chuck device one day.🙂

@jimmccall4599

Жыл бұрын

@Doug Bennett I had that same issue, so I went to the dollar store and picked up some double sided tape , I make complete wrap around the tumbler where it is not in the way of the burn. Once I have it on I run my hands around the tape so it's not so sticky works great

@dougbennett1275

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmccall4599 Thanks for the tip. I've not tried the double-sided tape. I did try some spray glue on the rollers which helped. It's a shame we can't get Lightburn to do the line along with the fill, rather than completely before or after.

Hey if from Hammond LA. Can Lightburn be used with my glowforge?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Ай бұрын

No Dennis, GlowForge uses proprietary software.

Any chance you could make a universal test card for the roller? BTW hello, I have been watching and following your videos you are amazing keep up the great work

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

The UTC and be used on any material Scott.

You could just enter /4 in your width and lightburn will calculate for you. Don’t need calculator.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yes Tom, I'm getting old so I forget these things and many others during the recording! 🤪

Curious why the chuck is not 180° around on the rotary tool. If the tumbler was over the ‘bed’ you would not need the drill as a counter balance. I’ve no experience yet with rotary tools so there may be something I’m totally missing Great demo as always

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Because it's based on the mm/min the stepper motor moves. The roller is setup this way because I do a lot of cups with handles.

I was wondering how you engrave a tumbler one side of a 30oz yeti tumbler up top in the big area then, on the other side, down on the bottom where it would go into the cup holder? is it the same principle as the video above? thank you in advance

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yup, I did one that way in the video.

@brockla9

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy ok thank you

I didn’t catch you explaining that you need to flip the design 90 degrees to match how your rotary is sitting? Sometimes you need to mirror the image-I don’t understand how to know when to do that.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

When you run your first test you'll know. Most China rollers require the image to be mirrored in the rotary setup Tina.

I like watching your videos, but the fact that your wife's name is Evelyn makes it that muhc better. So is mine :) Her nickname is Elevyn, though.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

It's not a popular name Derek.

You can actually do the math within lightburn. In the width you can add /4 at the end of 188.496 then press enter and it'll give you 47.124. You can also do stuff like (10+5)*2 and it'll give you 30. I can't think off the top of my head why you would need the second option but as I was typing this I thought "Wait, can you do more complex formulas?" and you turns out you can.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I know, I'm just used to using the calc 🤪

Hey Rich would that also work with the Roller set up or would the numbers be different?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

That was a roller setup Ken.

@usafdummy

Жыл бұрын

😅Sorry, I guess I was watching the video to close cause on the rotary set you had chuck clicked. I didn't know if that made a difference, cause I was use a chuck and each side came out oval. Thanks

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

If the graphic is oval, your steps per mm are off Ken.

Can this been done on a fiber laser i tried and it says im out of bounds with my rotary when i try double sided?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I haven't used the rotary on the fiber Britny, so I can't say.

On a 10w laser, what speed (mm/min) and power do you recommend?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I don't recommend speeds and power. I always sacrifice one piece to run a power grid on.

@P1stola86

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy i have and they all end looking dark or matte. I have tried windex and baking soda and works great. Will also try isopropyl alcohol. Was just wondering a ballpark range or tip to make it easier to clean on painted tumblers

Can a the ortur pro 2 sf 5.5 output engrave on tumbler well?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yes it can.

@HubicGaming

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy thank you

So I was wondering where you went? I subscribed to your channel a few months ago! Where you helped us with lightburn and you have graciously gave us some files to play with. I work two jobs and I had to manually look up your name through search and seen the subscribe icon?

@justinhamrick1099

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t delete it

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

KZread does that to me too!

Hi i wanted to ask u i want to add a roller to my neje 3 max can i use anyone available like xtool i cant find anything on this Thanks for all your great video i learning lots from your channel

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

The xTool RA2 roller comes with adapters, so yes, you can use that one.

@therambler3833

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy thank u Rich

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. My circle designs come out skewed really bad. Using D1 and roller that came with it. HELP

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Skewed images means your steps per rotation are wrong in the rotary setup Garth.

Do you have a video about the DEWALLIE Rotary?? The only video I found about it was from someone that didn't speak English so I couldn't understand what he was sayin.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

My last video was with the Dewallie roller.

@raider6511

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Yes, but it didn't show the setup from unpacking to engraving with it.

I am using Piburn 4.0 with Omtech 60w mf. Do you need to find steps for each individual product and change rotation steps at each job or is there a way of setting the steps to change automatically. ie My steps for 30oz tumbler are 5100 while 20oz is 5250. I have tried changing diameter only but rotation is off unless I change steps. Do I need to calculate steps for every product I engrave with rotary?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

You'll need to contact PiBurn for that question Chris; I don't own one. I don't have to change my steps per rotation on any of my rotary devices.

@chrisbrophy2818

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thanks for the quick response I have reached out to Piburn support.

So if I'm working with a tumbler with a screw top lid, I line up the laser head with the mouth of the tumbler lid, and put the origin as right center? (piburn and thunder laser, design flipped 90 degrees different from yours)... thanks for this video... will be experimenting tomorrow - have 100 double sided to do so this will save a ton of time.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

That should work for you Heather.

@Nomadic.A

Жыл бұрын

About to send this to my laser, but the green dot is between the images that will be back and front of my tumbler. I'm having a hard time visualizing what you said about lining the image and laser head up with the logo (in my case the igloo logo = mouth of the tumbler). If the green start point end up between the images, wouldn't I need to find the center between the mouth and back of the tumbler?

@Nomadic.A

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy have to do a 90 degree turn to make it work, but got it.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it Heather! Yeah, different rollers will have different settings.

Don't you need to turn everything 90° if you're using a rotary? Or is it not needed since the rotary itself is turned?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

It depends on the roller and the direction of the stepper motor Monztuh. Always do a test. I will usually wrap the item in tape and run the job at very low power to make sure.

@Monztuh

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy ah ok got you. I have another question. Is it necessary to mirror the image option in the rotary whenever using a rotary device? Also is there any difference between the absolute coordinates current position and starting origin options when using a rotary compared to not using one?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

It depends on the rotary and the position of the stepper motor. You use current position.

Can you do a full wrap design?

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

8 ай бұрын

I have done them. You simply size the graphic to the circumference of the tumbler.

@tiarerush1895

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for replying. I've been struggling to get my 20w fiber and my roller tumbler to work with lightburn. The manufacturer help is atrocious.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

8 ай бұрын

If you need help with a fiber setup, Patrick from Lightsource,pro has paid one-on-one remote help. sales@lightsource.pro

Dzień dobry, mam pytanie. Jak wyłączyć alarmy przy OLM2 Pro? Włączają się bez powodu. Good morning, l have a question. How to turn off alarms on OLM2 Pro? They turn on for no reason. l live in Poland.

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

$X on the console tab cancels the alarm, but you can't turn them off.

@jerzy2732

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Dzień dobry, dziękuje za szybka odpowiedz. Życzę powodzenia .😉😊

How do you setup a double-sided tumbler? Just kidding, great stuff!

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Why dont you align logo to small squares by menu? Any Ctrl+Arrow keys work would be eliminated.....

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yup, more than one than one to do it, that's for sure!

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND AN ANSWER, IN THE LIGHTBURN, I WOULD LIKE TO SLOW THE SPEED THE LASER MOVES, WHEN IT IS TRACING/OUTLINING (LOW POWER) AN AREA BEFORE ENGRAVING OR CUTTING, IT MOVES WAY TOO FAST AND THE LASER HAS SLAMMED IN TO THE FRAME, ITS HAPPENED TOO MANY TIMES, LASER GRBL MOVES SLOW ENOUGH THAT I DONT HAVE THAT PROBLEM, HOW WOULD I SLOW THAT SPEED DOWN, I HAVE PUT OFF USING LIGHTBURN BECAUSE OF THAT, I HAVE ATOMSTACK A5, ONCE I CAN SLOW THAT SPEED DOWN THEN I CAN REALLY START USING LIGHTBURN, UNTIL I CAN FIND OUT HOW TO CHANGE THAT SPEED, I DONT WANT TO USE IT AND TAKE A CHANCE OF SLAMMING THE LASER SO HARD IN TO THE RAIL, THE LASER WILL BECOME DAMAGED

@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

Жыл бұрын

It's in the video. On the move tab.

@23names

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy THANK YOU, I SAW HOW TO DO THAT IN THE VIDEO AFTER I POSTED MY COMMENT (QUESTION), THANK YOU AGAIN, GREAT JOB ON THE VIDEO