Overriding auto-focus

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Simon Gornall
Posts: 7
Joined: Thu Oct 31, 2019
Location: San Jose, CA
Country: USA
Nickname: ThrudTheBarbarian
Laser Machine Make or Type: chinese laser off Ebay
Laser Power: 100W
Laser Bed Size: 24" x 39"
Home Position: TL
RDWorks Version: n/a
Windows Version: n/a
Accessories: Rotary option, ethernet

So I'm running through materials, characterizing how my laser cuts/engraves etc.

One thing I want to know is how well the auto-focus works, and then I want to change the focus up/down by 1mm at a time and compare. Extending the distance from the bed to the nozzle is easy, but getting the bed to raise up above 0 just ... doesn't. Which is reasonable until I want it to :)

At the moment, I'm power-cycling the machine every time, which seems like a hammer to crack a nut, because it'll home X,Y and leave Z unknown. Just hitting reset on the controller doesn't seem to "forget" where Z=0 is...

Is there an easy way (on the controller or in the software) that lets you manually override where the machine things Z=0 is ? This isn't a show-stopper or anything, and in general use it's probably fine, it's just a minor annoyance with what I'm doing right now :)

Ta,
Simon
Pete Cyr
Posts: 1964
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2016
Location: Suffolk Virginia
Country: United States
Laser Machine Make or Type: Boss 1630
Laser Power: 100w
Laser Bed Size: 16"x30"
Home Position: TR
Control Software: RDWORKS
RDWorks Version: v8.01.18
Ruida Controller: RDC6442
Windows Version: Win 10
Accessories: roller rotary attachment

My auto focus work very well - some folks hate thiers and remove it.
As far as over riding - simply set the z height manually to what ever you which (auto focus only comes into play if you select
"auto focus" when you set up - it doe not automatically perform a focus function unless to manual select that)
Location - VA
Equipment - Boss Laser 1630
Power - 100W
Laser Bed Size - 16" x 30"
Home Position - TR
Full RDWorks Version - v8.01.18
First name - Pete
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