jwar wrote:It's only off marginally but it's off you know.
I'm going to attempt to fix it. I don't like it when shit like this happens. It happened on my last laser etches for Drolo too, and I think now that it could be a fucking alignment issues even though I literally just re-aligned the goddamn thing a few months ago.
A few months? I don't know what you have, but does the processor side of things let you user define a zero point? Then I feel it would just be a matter of having a fixed jig and a fixed reference point (like a plate glass base with an etched crosshair) that you can manually place the laser at (at a low beam pointer type power) then punch the zero set and away you go?
Forgive me if watching big mills operate has skewed my sense of things, but defining the point of work (piece to be milled/whatever) was always the first step in any run.
These all look great (in every iteration I've seen) so whatever work around you go with, it's cool by me.