Snapmaker Artisan Rotary not working with Lightburn

[swochs1962]

Since Snapmaker changed using grbl instead of Marlin, I am not able to use my Rotary module with Lightburn. Can you work with Lightburn to get the code right so my Rotary will work?

[xchrisd]

Not sure if you did some searching:

Lightburn + Rotary Guide

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[swochs1962]

Yes I did and I tried it all. Nothing works. The Rotary works in Luban, but not in Lightburn. Since Snapmaker changed from Marlin to GRBL without letting Lightburn know, it has made those of us customers that paid for Lightburn because Luban is very limited in its usefulness very upset.

Please get your developers to work with the developers of Lightburn so those of us that just want to create things without having to purchase another piece of hardware.

I really like the Artisan for its build quality, but Luban is lacking. I paid for a Great piece of hardware and a Great Creative Software (Lightburn) and I would like to get both to work together.

Please help me out!!!

Steven Ochs

[gpt1plon]

@Snapmaker-Support, are you looking at this?
Can’t use rotary module and lightburn

[gpt1plon]

FYI
Hi all.
I’ve reached out to Snapmaker for comment. The Artisan used to work with the default Marlin profiles. But they seem to be switching everything over to GRBL. Unfortunately the did not inform us of this.

@berainlb is right - use the provided lbdev profiles and it should work (I checked and they are GRBL based… so I don’t know what that means for older Artisan devices). But he is also right that rotary will not work. There is special logic written specifically for Snapmaker devices and currently the ONLY way to enable that logic is to use a Snapmaker profile, which you apparently can’t do anymore since it’s Marlin based.

@Darkangle Not sure about the dummy device message. I can’t replicate that here with the latest release. My guess is it’s related to translation - sometimes when you are using a language other than English text fields don’t always get updated when they should. And when you first open the new device wizard the first selected device type is always “No Machine” which does show that message. It should go away when you click on SnapMaker but I’m guessing it’s not due to the translation logic.

As noted, I’ve reached out to my Snapmaker contact for comment and will report back when I have news. If they did, in fact, update those devices to use GRBL instead of Marlin there is unfortunately nothing we can do beside rip all that logic out of being Snapmaker/Marlin only and implement it more globally. That will take some time and a LOT of testing with all known Snapmaker devices. Please be patient.