Laser origin not really working

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@CKNN

I guess I don’t understand when you say you set the work origin to 0,0. Do you move the head all the way to 0,0 and it engraves where you initially wanted it to? Thanks in advance, CK

You can give my guide a shot if you want, it’s a touch dated, but it’s the general method I use for all of my projects.

Accurate, Repeatable Laser Guide

My rotary guide (found here) seemed to be well received, so I’m going to move onto the laser. This guide will be a bit shorter, as it’s not too involved, but is mostly to help increase repeatability, accuracy, and quality of your laser projects. Likely any machinist will say a repeatable, accurate origin is a key component in quality production. You gotta know exactly where you start to know where you’re gonna end right? I know the snapmaker method is just eyeball it, be it with a mark and lini…

Once you find your true origin, and can make a repeatable setup with it, it makes things so much easier. Once you can setup your true origin, then all you need to do is put G53 at the start of your gcode, and it’ll always start where you want. (G53 makes the program run in machine coordinates, completely ignoring the ‘work origin’ so there’s no fiddling or guessing).