Lightburn engraving to run Snapmaker

Snapmaker 2.0
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I’ve been using LightBurn as well, but I do get to use the leveling feature by sending the file to the machine instead of running directly from LightBurn.

My process:

  1. Make your cut setup and everything in LightBurn
  2. Use “Save gcode” to save a file (check that it has a .nc extension, SM doesn’t understand .gcode for laser files
  3. Put the file on your machine.@brent113 packaged up @zvalentine22’s great script to allow for a right click and “send to snapmaker via wifi”, you can use this, luban, or a USB key to get the file over to the machine.
  4. On the machine, choose to load and run the file

It then lets you use the machine’s auto leveling feature to automatically select the correct height.

Do make sure that you don’t have Z-offsets set in your cuts, since the machine should already be at the correct Z height when starting the job.
Also, this will run the job dependent on the set origin, you can change it after the leveling process and you should be able to run boundary (although, it’s not as good as LB’s rubberband feature).