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Camera Not Available: Windows Permissions and Device Access
When LightBurn cannot see a camera, the problem may be operating-system privacy permissions, another app holding the camera, drivers or USB bandwidth — not calibration.
Camera Overlay Shift: Fast Diagnosis
Overlay errors can come from stale capture, mechanical movement, incorrect calibration/alignment or material height differences. Pattern matters: uniform shift differs from nonlinear distortion.
Camera Alignment: Map the View to the Laser Bed
Camera alignment establishes the relationship between the corrected camera image and real workspace coordinates; hardware movement can invalidate that relationship.
Camera Lens Calibration: Distortion Before Alignment
Lens calibration corrects optical distortion; alignment maps the corrected camera view to the laser workspace. They solve different problems and should not be treated as one calibration.
Multi-Camera Workflow in LightBurn 2.1
LightBurn 2.1 expands camera support, including multi-camera workflows and a redesigned setup/control experience; each camera still needs correct lens/alignment context.
Camera Calibration, Alignment and Overlay in LightBurn 2.1
Separate lens calibration from workspace alignment and know what must be repeated when a camera is moved.