This is the best laser tutorial I have found in all of UA-cam! Thank you for keeping it so simple my friend. I just got my laser yesterday and I’m trying to figure it out
Hey, thanks Tony! Really great of you to share your work and skills with us. It's especially helpful to people like me who are starting out. Appreciate it!
Thank-you. My wife received her machine and software this week and has been struggling with lining stuff up. This has solved that issue first time. For those struggling with the import - just right click the toolbar and choose import - ignore the bit in the video where an installer is run
As a newbie to laser etching I am very excited to try your custom buttons because my laser moves to the right side and very close to the edge to begin burning. I will be checking back fairly often. Thank you very much!
Hello Tony! Your video has been a great help to me. I've just started to learn about navigating around lasergrbl and was stuck. Your custom buttons will be a fantastic help. Thanks - Andy in Victoria Australia.
Hi your video is so clear that what i needed! Thank you so much. Could you share me file of custom buttons or could let me know where I can download the file? Thank you!❤
Thanks a lot ... I found the way to add custom buttons ---- To install custom buttons just download this file, start LaserGRBL, right click in custom button area, select “import” from menu, and select the downloaded file. you don't need to extract this file.
Thank you for offering your work for everyone's benefit. I hope this helps: Save a lot of otherwise crucial steps by abandoning the imperial system altogether. Measure everything in cm and mm so that all you need to do is move decimal points in your head. It also adds the benefit of instantly knowing **exactly** fractional increments, as in .33, .5, etc. Best of luck. Thanks again. Edit: Works almost perfectly with Atomstack A5 Pro. Just be sure the low power dot turns off after it goes home. I had to turn it off with the built in on/off button (the larger bulb icon). Your buttons are a BIG help. I was getting ready for Lightburn's camera overlay. Not any more. Also, no need for the Windows (10) install procedure. Just add them with the right-click procedure used with the additional included buttons.
Tony, thank you for the custom buttons. I am a novice to laser engraving. I just purchased a Twotrees TTS-55 Pro 2 days ago. Your tutorial on centering your laser was a tremendous help. I am using Lasergrbl and all of your buttons worked for me except the button that turns on the laser to check my spot. I know nothing about code so I am thinking that maybe there might be something within Lasergrbl that needs to be activated to make your laser button work with my machine. Do you have any ideas that I could try so that the laser will turn on? I can see where that is a very important part of the process. Thank you in advance for any assistance you could provide.
I have the Atomstack S20 , on the controller i have the center and run contour options but i encountered a strange bug where the machine tried to cut after traveling about 10 cm offset from where it did the contour . Fortunately it was a linear cut attempt and nothing was ruined . The bug was reproductible but i put it on the fact that i feeded GRBL a single drawed line in a bigger white bitmap .
Im interested in your buttons, and I was wondering if your next project would be to add a algorythim to have an option for inches or mm's. That is the only reason I don't use LaserGRBL exclusively. Thanks for the buttons.
Hello Tony,i own a Falcon2 22W laser. I want to cut a drawing i made in Autocad. I made a PDF bij printing. Then i go to Inkscape to convert this PDF to an SVG. Then i put this SVG into LaserGRBL. Each time i try i become an offset on the X axe of 237 mm and on the Y axe of - 82 mm. Do you have a solution to fix this problem? Iam looking forward to your responce. Best regard, Theo
Thank you Tony, this will really help. I just got my machine and was thinking, "there has to be an easier way to check this..." and then I found your video! Thanks again!
Hi, a great video. I'm new to laser engraving and downloaded your custom button file but it isn't a .exe file it's just a .gz file so it won't open and run for me. Can you please explain how I get those buttons into my Lasergrble please. Thanks Martin
Thank you for the video. This looks like a great solution. I was attempting to download your custom buttons, it is showing (all of the links) that it's only 18kb, and 7-zip is saying it cannot read it because it is not an "archived" document. Didn't know what I was doing wrong in getting those files so I can add them. Regardless, thank you so much for taking the time and doing all of that work, plus sharing it.
Hi, you can’t open the file or unzip it. You have to import it into lasergrbl. Right click at the bottom where the existing buttons are and choose import.
hello kindly I bought a sculpfun s10 and I'm using lasergrbl without problems but I don't know how to do something by chance a wooden keychain with the engraving and the final cut of the piece with the appropriate hole to put the iron circle as it is done thanks settings
Thank you, Tony. Unfortunately, I cannot extract the .gz file. I'm using 7-Zip but it says it cannot open the file as gzip archive. Is not achiev. Any suggestions?
Thanks. You are the only one who knows how to do this. Thanks again. Oh, so the picture size is of not real value. Only the size or area of the wood or item you are engraving. Correct? Thanks again
I was able to import the custom buttons but not able to find the program to run for the buttons that you use after closing Lasergrbl. Where do I get that? It say's the archive is either damaged or unknown.
@@dalestone6856 cant remember, this was 5 months ago that i commented that. It was somewhere in the video or description though because i have them now.
Hi Tony, great video. I have an Ortur laser master 2 pro and use LaserGRBL. I have placed my image on Laser GRBL and I have one letter that is out of bounds so it won't engrave that letter. I need to move my image to the left so that all letters are within the engraving area. How do I do this? Thanks much for your help. Tim
Tony, Thank you for the great video. Question: When I turn my laser on to find my centering, why does the laser come on FULL POWER and starts to burn? Isn't it suppose to come on at low power so it doesn't burn an image around your project and now I've wrecked my project I haven't even started to engrave yet.
so when I download the custom buttons, it's not recognized as an exe file and won't install. I'm on Windows 11. Has anything changed with the download file or anything? Thank you!
That was awesome explanation. Could I get the buttons file please. I’m have a big issue I suppose. I need to define the working area ( I don’t want my machine to crush at the edges). Any proposal??
The best way to prevent edge crushing to install limit switches. Alternatively, you can set your work area smaller than the actual work area of the machine. I have a machine that is 30" X 30". I am using a 24" x 24" sheet of MDF as the waste board and set the machine work area to 24" x 24". As long as I don't do something stupid like click the homing button to see what that does;😏 I shouldn't have any edge crashing.
Hi Tony, Really interesting video, thank you, easy to understand. I'm trying to download the button program, however, it's saying that it's not a valid archive, I've downloaded it several times but to no avail. I'm running Win 10 Home, 64 bit. Are you able to shed any light on it, please? Thank you. 👍
very nice, brand new to this laser world, where is button download? also, i have 40W and they recommend about .75 from burn area , how do i know power to use? using pine
I have a 3018 pro that I bought in 2020 and put down during the COVID. Now that I am trying to get it moving my laptop cannot see the device. I have tried all the supplied software to no avail. Can you offer any guidance? It is quite frustrating.
Hi Richard, Im not sure why you wouldn't be able to connect to your laptop. Have you installed the CH340 drivers? You would need to install them first then troubleshoot from there. If you cannot get it I offer hour training support at cncupgrades.com/training/.
HI great work this will help a lot , but i can not open the gz file ! the archive is corruped ! i tried winzip in windows 10 !! can you please reupload files ? thank you .
Hi tony Can you please help I recently purchased a Ortur master 3 and downloaded GRBL V4.8.4 from their web page I’m up and running but some of the buttons on the GRBL screen are not working “centre,corner, frame,focus,and blink “ do not work I have deleted them and re written the G code that didn’t work I then deleted them and imported new ones still not working I uninstalled GRBL and reinstalled it but still can’t get them to work hopefully you might have a solution I’m new to engraving and these buttons will help me center my project. Regards Ken
Hi Tony, I am really learning a lot by watching this video, however when I went to do my first engrave/burn it came out backwards like it mirrored itself, I have tried to research this issue and I am not seeing alot on it, the only thing I have found are articles on how to configure laserGRBL... well needless to say I can't make heads or tails of it, do you know how to fix this issue or what I need to do?
I have a question. so you know how in Lazar grbl there’s a rectangle bounding box is there anyway that let’s say I imported an SVG image of a star that the laser would go on low power and trace out that star so I know exactly where it would be when I engrave it? Or could you make a button like that because I have no clue how to do this stuff. Also I love this video I subscribed and gave it a thumbs up.Also is there a way to make a button that would put a dot at the bottom center top center middle left center and middle right center kind of like a plus sign. to help with aligning.
I am really new to LaserGRBL. If I install your custom buttons, does it remove the stock ones? Can I uninstall yours and go back to stock if I wanted to? I went ahead and installed.- success. My OLM2 decided to go from home (bottom left) and shoot to top right when I center or frame. I have only run 8 projects and the first 6 were fine, Then this happened. The help I received was about setting the coordinates, but no info as how. I hope that this will solve that issue. Will try tomorrow. Great video!!!
Very good video, answered a lot of questions for me But have one more How do you get the "Target Range" panel to come up wanting to burn text created in Easel ? Help Anybody Thank You
Thank you for the info, I would like to know how to enter my size, but I want to be able to change the second size, to what I want ,instead of it automatically entering a proportional size.
After you edit your image and click next the re are X & Y image size boxes. Unselect the "LOCK" and you can set individual X & Y values. Hope this isn't too late to solve your problem,
OMG!!! You saved my sanity!! Your FREE custom buttons fixed the problems I was having.
Awesome! I’m glad they worked good for you.
@@TonyPaolillo The link is a dead end now. Can you reshare?
@@WabiSabiCustomsLLC Hi, The link is fixed now. Sorry about that.
@@TonyPaolillo id tried to download but its not working :/
I cannot thank you enough! I wish I found your video last year before I put my laser away out of frustration.
Thank You, Thank You. I was having a hard time until I look at your video "Centering your Laser". Now I understand.
This is the best laser tutorial I have found in all of UA-cam! Thank you for keeping it so simple my friend. I just got my laser yesterday and I’m trying to figure it out
Hey, thanks Tony! Really great of you to share your work and skills with us. It's especially helpful to people like me who are starting out. Appreciate it!
The way you explain this is so clear, no computer jargon, Thank you so much!
Glyn (UK)
Thank-you. My wife received her machine and software this week and has been struggling with lining stuff up. This has solved that issue first time.
For those struggling with the import - just right click the toolbar and choose import - ignore the bit in the video where an installer is run
Thank you for LaserGrbl's tips and for making the created buttons available. It really makes it a lot easier. Won another writing in Brazil.
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. I have definitely bookmarked the classes that you offer, too.
As a newbie to laser etching I am very excited to try your custom buttons because my laser moves to the right side and very close to the edge to begin burning. I will be checking back fairly often. Thank you very much!
Hello Tony! Your video has been a great help to me. I've just started to learn about navigating around lasergrbl and was stuck. Your custom buttons will be a fantastic help. Thanks - Andy in Victoria Australia.
Thank you, that was extremely helpful, especially for a newbie. I will visit you again in the future. And yes, I have subscribed.
Hey I'm new to laser engraving. Ironically working on a dog piece for an old friend. This was super helpful, thank you for the program and buttons.🔥🦁✊
Hi your video is so clear that what i needed! Thank you so much. Could you share me file of custom buttons or could let me know where I can download the file? Thank you!❤
I found the button link. Really thank you
Thanks a lot ... I found the way to add custom buttons ----
To install custom buttons just download this file, start LaserGRBL, right click in custom button area, select “import” from menu, and select the downloaded file. you don't need to extract this file.
Thank you for offering your work for everyone's benefit. I hope this helps: Save a lot of otherwise crucial steps by abandoning the imperial system altogether. Measure everything in cm and mm so that all you need to do is move decimal points in your head. It also adds the benefit of instantly knowing **exactly** fractional increments, as in .33, .5, etc. Best of luck. Thanks again.
Edit: Works almost perfectly with Atomstack A5 Pro. Just be sure the low power dot turns off after it goes home. I had to turn it off with the built in on/off button (the larger bulb icon). Your buttons are a BIG help. I was getting ready for Lightburn's camera overlay. Not any more. Also, no need for the Windows (10) install procedure. Just add them with the right-click procedure used with the additional included buttons.
Dude those custom buttons are a life saver. I can't thank you enough!
You’re very welcome. Glad you found them useful.
you are awesome! make my life with Laser GRBL much more easy. I download your custom buttons and they are there just like that!. God bless you.
Your welcome. Glad you found the buttons useful.
What an awesome instructional video. Thank you for helping me understand this software better.
Excellent, very good explanation and detail. Thanks for your efforts!
Tony, thank you for the custom buttons. I am a novice to laser engraving. I just purchased a Twotrees TTS-55 Pro 2 days ago. Your tutorial on centering your laser was a tremendous help. I am using Lasergrbl and all of your buttons worked for me except the button that turns on the laser to check my spot. I know nothing about code so I am thinking that maybe there might be something within Lasergrbl that needs to be activated to make your laser button work with my machine. Do you have any ideas that I could try so that the laser will turn on? I can see where that is a very important part of the process. Thank you in advance for any assistance you could provide.
This is awesome!! I will definitely be watching more of your videos and thanks for sharing those buttons!
Thank you for the time you have taken to help us beginners and for the down load
Your very welcome
Wow, thank you for the instruction as I am very new to the CNC world and was having difficulties with centering on our machine! LK
Thank you so much!! Great video and so kind of you to share your program!😘
Those buttons would help me out tremendously
Thanks dude!! The top right corner button changes everything!
I have the Atomstack S20 , on the controller i have the center and run contour options but i encountered a strange bug where the machine tried to cut after traveling about 10 cm offset from where it did the contour . Fortunately it was a linear cut attempt and nothing was ruined . The bug was reproductible but i put it on the fact that i feeded GRBL a single drawed line in a bigger white bitmap .
Im interested in your buttons, and I was wondering if your next project would be to add a algorythim to have an option for inches or mm's. That is the only reason I don't use LaserGRBL exclusively. Thanks for the buttons.
Thanks so much just got my machine and was really wondering how to do this thanks again.
Hello Tony,i own a Falcon2 22W laser. I want to cut a drawing i made in Autocad. I made a PDF bij printing. Then i go to Inkscape to convert this PDF to an SVG. Then i put this SVG into LaserGRBL. Each time i try i become an offset on the X axe of 237 mm and on the Y axe of - 82 mm. Do you have a solution to fix this problem? Iam looking forward to your responce.
Best regard, Theo
Thank you Tony, this will really help. I just got my machine and was thinking, "there has to be an easier way to check this..." and then I found your video! Thanks again!
tony where can I get that program you created with all the settings
It's a software available free on Internet. It's called LaserGRBL
Hi, a great video. I'm new to laser engraving and downloaded your custom button file but it isn't a .exe file it's just a .gz file so it won't open and run for me. Can you please explain how I get those buttons into my Lasergrble please. Thanks Martin
No link to the installer?! Thanks for the tips and custom buttons, very helpful!
Thank you for the video. This looks like a great solution. I was attempting to download your custom buttons, it is showing (all of the links) that it's only 18kb, and 7-zip is saying it cannot read it because it is not an "archived" document. Didn't know what I was doing wrong in getting those files so I can add them. Regardless, thank you so much for taking the time and doing all of that work, plus sharing it.
Hi, you can’t open the file or unzip it. You have to import it into lasergrbl. Right click at the bottom where the existing buttons are and choose import.
@@TonyPaolillo thank you for explaining to me. The older I get the slower I am
I downloaded your buttons but it did not have the setup file in it. How do I import them into lasergrbl? Got it. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the video and the buttons
Thanks Tony
Are those custom buttons specific for a machine? Or can I use it with any (or at least most) of the CNC or laser engravers?
hello kindly I bought a sculpfun s10 and I'm using lasergrbl without problems but I don't know how to do something by chance a wooden keychain with the engraving and the final cut of the piece with the appropriate hole to put the iron circle as it is done thanks settings
Thank you, Tony. Unfortunately, I cannot extract the .gz file. I'm using 7-Zip but it says it cannot open the file as gzip archive. Is not achiev. Any suggestions?
Thank you for the program and buttons
Thank you so much. Your buttons are alot easier.
Thanks. You are the only one who knows how to do this. Thanks again. Oh, so the picture size is of not real value. Only the size or area of the wood or item you are engraving. Correct? Thanks again
I was able to import the custom buttons but not able to find the program to run for the buttons that you use after closing Lasergrbl. Where do I get that? It say's the archive is either damaged or unknown.
This was the PERFECT vidoe!!! Not only for the content but for these custom buttons.. youre the man!!
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
What is the link for the custom buttons?
@@dalestone6856 cant remember, this was 5 months ago that i commented that. It was somewhere in the video or description though because i have them now.
Having problems opening your buttons .gz file, 7zip, winzip and tar don't recognise it... did I goof, or is the file wonky?
Hi I am trying to add the custom buttons but it says the file is empty when downloaded. Any help greatly appreciated 😅
Hi Tony, I went to your custom buttons download but it wont let me. It says I need a app? Can you help me. thanks
Thank you for the buttons
Incredibly useful, thank you
New to all this and thankyou for the video. I downloaded the new buttons however I seem to have not received the circle button? Can you help.
Hi Tony. I imported the buttons but they are grayed out and do not work ... Any suggestions?
Can you tell me why when I enter the custom size it's coming up short? I did the converter and it keeps coming up short by like 2". What's happening
Works like a charm! Love it!
Why when I use frame it burns and leaves a mark in the material. Is it possible to turn down the power of the laser for Framing?
great info Tony downloaded the button file but cannot open it any ideas
Thanks! Will the custom buttons work with the Two Trees TTS-55?
hi, the buttons work with LaserGRBL so if you use lasergrbl then yes.
Thank you for the great tutorial! My question is, do you set your home or 0.0 point to where you want to start burning?
Hi Tony, great video. I have an Ortur laser master 2 pro and use LaserGRBL. I have placed my image on Laser GRBL and I have one letter that is out of bounds so it won't engrave that letter. I need to move my image to the left so that all letters are within the engraving area. How do I do this? Thanks much for your help. Tim
Just what I been looking for.......thanks
Many thanks for the custom buttons will help me a lot
Tried downloading the custom buttons but it seems to say "the archive is either in unknown format or damaged"
Thank you for the buttons!!
Awesome video Tony the link to the custom buttons and setup isn’t in the description anyway I can get them?
Tony, Thank you for the great video.
Question: When I turn my laser on to find my centering, why does the laser come on FULL POWER and starts to burn? Isn't it suppose to come on at low power so it doesn't burn an image around your project and now I've wrecked my project I haven't even started to engrave yet.
Yes !
same question here, would love to know the answer :)
so when I download the custom buttons, it's not recognized as an exe file and won't install. I'm on Windows 11. Has anything changed with the download file or anything? Thank you!
what is the code for the circular framing? will be usefull to engrave round stuff, thanks!
That was awesome explanation.
Could I get the buttons file please.
I’m have a big issue I suppose.
I need to define the working area ( I don’t want my machine to crush at the edges). Any proposal??
The best way to prevent edge crushing to install limit switches.
Alternatively, you can set your work area smaller than the actual work area of the machine.
I have a machine that is 30" X 30".
I am using a 24" x 24" sheet of MDF as the waste board and set the machine work area to 24" x 24".
As long as I don't do something stupid like click the homing button to see what that does;😏 I shouldn't have any edge crashing.
Hi Tony,
Really interesting video, thank you, easy to understand. I'm trying to download the button program, however, it's saying that it's not a valid archive, I've downloaded it several times but to no avail. I'm running Win 10 Home, 64 bit. Are you able to shed any light on it, please? Thank you. 👍
Don't unzip it, load it into LaserGRBL as an archive
@@GenePaton Thank you for that...it worked perfectly!
Does We need safety Glasses for this?
What happen when i Press connect laser error happen said com denied?
very nice, brand new to this laser world, where is button download? also, i have 40W and they recommend about .75 from burn area , how do i know power to use? using pine
Very helpful - thanks!
Grate video, how can I add writing too an image on laser gebl?
Where can I download your custom buttons? Tanks for helpful video.
brilliant, thank you very very much.
I have a 3018 pro that I bought in 2020 and put down during the COVID. Now that I am trying to get it moving my laptop cannot see the device. I have tried all the supplied software to no avail. Can you offer any guidance? It is quite frustrating.
Hi Richard, Im not sure why you wouldn't be able to connect to your laptop. Have you installed the CH340 drivers? You would need to install them first then troubleshoot from there. If you cannot get it I offer hour training support at cncupgrades.com/training/.
HI great work this will help a lot , but i can not open the gz file ! the archive is corruped ! i tried winzip in windows 10 !! can you please reupload files ? thank you .
Hi tony
Can you please help I recently purchased a Ortur master 3 and downloaded GRBL V4.8.4 from their web page I’m up and running but some of the buttons on the GRBL screen are not working “centre,corner, frame,focus,and blink “ do not work I have deleted them and re written the G code that didn’t work I then deleted them and imported new ones still not working I uninstalled GRBL and reinstalled it but still can’t get them to work hopefully you might have a solution I’m new to engraving and these buttons will help me center my project.
Regards Ken
Thank you.
Hi Tony, I am really learning a lot by watching this video, however when I went to do my first engrave/burn it came out backwards like it mirrored itself, I have tried to research this issue and I am not seeing alot on it, the only thing I have found are articles on how to configure laserGRBL... well needless to say I can't make heads or tails of it, do you know how to fix this issue or what I need to do?
THANK YOU
Can I get the link for the programme?
I have a question. so you know how in Lazar grbl there’s a rectangle bounding box is there anyway that let’s say I imported an SVG image of a star that the laser would go on low power and trace out that star so I know exactly where it would be when I engrave it? Or could you make a button like that because I have no clue how to do this stuff. Also I love this video I subscribed and gave it a thumbs up.Also is there a way to make a button that would put a dot at the bottom center top center middle left center and middle right center kind of like a plus sign. to help with aligning.
Kaleb Taylor - but why did you say that here
Thank you for this!!! HUGE help!!
I am really new to LaserGRBL. If I install your custom buttons, does it remove the stock ones? Can I uninstall yours and go back to stock if I wanted to? I went ahead and installed.- success. My OLM2 decided to go from home (bottom left) and shoot to top right when I center or frame. I have only run 8 projects and the first 6 were fine, Then this happened. The help I received was about setting the coordinates, but no info as how. I hope that this will solve that issue. Will try tomorrow. Great video!!!
Yes you can always remove the buttons if needed.
Very good video, answered a lot of questions for me But have one more How do you get the "Target Range" panel to come up wanting to burn text created in Easel ? Help Anybody Thank You
Tony thank so much these buttons are great !!!!!!!!!
Welcome
Hi I have windows 10 and I don't get the option to install your program. It will download them and that is as far as it goes. Can you help me
great video Tony. How do I get the custom settings you have created. I am a newbie to this, thanks
Is there a place where some image vectors and/or letters can be downloaded and edited? Thanks
It's seems my controls are in reverse can't figure out why
Hi Tony, please can you send me the link for the buttons. Many thanks.
Thank you for the info, I would like to know how to enter my size, but I want to be able to change the second size, to what I want ,instead of it automatically entering a proportional size.
After you edit your image and click next the re are X & Y image size boxes. Unselect the "LOCK" and you can set individual X & Y values. Hope this isn't too late to solve your problem,
I can't download the one you created. It's in some other format
how do i get the custom buttons please, the sight isn't running?
you can download them here: fileit360.com/?dl=45604ddc5534e654fa6f148e6ebbecf8
I keep getting an error that says "Cannot open file". I have tried 7zip and still get the same error, anny suggestions?
I'm to the stage where I have to set the center but it won't go home or anything just throws alarm my laser won't even turn on. Can anyone help???