r/XtoolS1

In order to color my engravings using metal powder I need to turn off any air blowing/venting/...

The technique I want to use is engraved->out powder (without moving material)->engrave again with low power to melt the powder.

Turning off Air Assist is a no-brainer, but some other air venting is still turned on (using Lightburn), so when the head arrives in the area I want to engrave, a lot of the powder is blown away :-/

Im very familiar with other cnc like tools. I used to run a few different cnc machines as well as a couple of 3d printers. Compared to my time with the XTool S1 those have all been straightforward. No matter what device I access the platform from its just error after error. One second I have 0.00 gb of cloud, or im not allowed to delete anything. Anytime I use this software I spend the most time just trying to find a work around to make it do something.

My question is, would lightburn be a better tool? Or should I just stick it out while theyre in this platform switch? Over only had it for a few months. Is this what I should expect going forward?