Great Job! Buy a biscuit (Try Chick-fil-a, I like 'em better than Bo's). I used a box program online to make a box. I modified the file to make a sliding lid and other items. Went to adjust the tabs and nothing worked. You taught me something in LightBurn,. You know give a man a fish, teach him to fish, blah blah blah.......
I'm glad you found the video helpful. I am designing a two-in-one box for two different games. I used a box generator at first. But I found I had to go back and fix everything about the design to make it Lightburn friendly. Thank you very much for your generous donation.
I've watched and enjoyed your videos for awhile now. They are very informative. I'm on a "broken income" as well and waiting for the boss to approve the purchase. But I will keep enjoying your videos. Thank you
Nice tutorial man! Only question I would have is how did the files get like that in the first place? Is it a certain program causing the problems like fusion360 or blender or....... Just curious :)
Just a note to say how much I appreciated your response via email regarding downloads publicly - I appreciated your promptness and courteous reply - many thanks - I'm 73a nd new to Lightburn and laser engraving - thanks for all your support
Customer service has always been important to me. Both receiving and giving. While I do not believe "The customer is always right," I do believe the one providing a service should do everything on their power to make it a pleasant experience for all parties involved. Thank you for your support and the kind words.
I'm using Inkscape as there is no lasers in my fixed income for now. Noticed when people are cutting or engraving, the laser beam seems to just jump from one spot to another spot and so on and so on. That seems like a lot of wasted time to me. This got me to thinking about the Naming and assigning numbers to Groups and Paths in Inkscape. For an example, the Group number would be like Group 567, which is assigned to objects which were previously selected & grouped. The Paths for an object were just as bad. An Objects had 6 paths assigned to it by Inkscape, those paths numbers wouldn't start with 1, path1. Oh no, path3823, path3756, path289, path9538. See what I mean. What would happen if those paths numbers were renamed sequentially from left to right, as an example, like path300, path301, path302, path303. This may not make any sense at all. Just thinking without a laser to test out my theory in Lightburn.
The cut/engrave order with a laser is determined by a few different things. I've seen other makers comment on the order in which the laser moves, and they weren't pleased with the way that Lightburn picks. There are different settings in the optimization of the laser. So, depending on how each maker has those settings picked, you may see several different paths using the same design. Also, you want to do your engraving first and then the cutting. And with the cutting, you want to cut all the inner shapes first. While these three choices may not be the most efficient, it does result in the best possible outcome. Lightburn also prioritizes the job by layer. So, a design with multiple layers with different settings to produce different results with each layer and a layer for cutting would appear to be moving totally erratically. But it is supposed to be moving in the most efficient way possible. That said, I have watched it make moves that didn't always make sense. One thing I have done in the past to say time on engraving larger designs with a lot of "white space" is to break the design down into quadrants. Assigning each quadrant to a different layer. Each layer still had the same settings, so the result looked good. But this eliminated the majority of the wasted travel of the white space. When you speak of creating paths, that is essentially what layers will do in Lightburn. If you wanted to take the time to assign certain areas of a design certain layers/paths and then make sure the priorities are set to cut/engrave by layer order. You might save a little time under the laser. But I think it would be a wash giving the time it would require setting up the different layers/paths. The difference might be seconds or minutes. It wouldn't be huge. My suggestion there would be if the laser isn't working fast enough, you need a faster more powerful laser. But I've learned firsthand that you sacrifice quality for speed. But if you were going to come up with a numbering system, I would recommend numbering like the interstates in the US. Low to high odds, west to east. And low to high evens, south to north.
@@HoboWithWood An excellent response to dumb question. I had not thought of doing a quadrant type layering, but that really makes since. Here was thinking take the time to look at the design, yes - leave the cut for last, but then move from left to right (west to east) then onto Top to bottom (north to south). I knew there had to be a reason why I liked your videos other than seeing a fireplace with a plugged up flue exhaust vent & no stove sitting in front with a big kettle of beans being slowly cooked. 🤣👻👽👾🤖
It's said we learn from our mistakes. I think it's important that folks see I make mistakes all the time. And there are a few other reasons I show my mistakes. One is because I too lazy to try and edit them out of the videos. But the biggest reason is if I removed my mistakes from the videos, they would be half as long resulting in less time folks are watching my videos. 😎
Wow! didn't know there were so many faults with this file. I'm now sure my second lantern will build so much easier.
Great Job! Buy a biscuit (Try Chick-fil-a, I like 'em better than Bo's). I used a box program online to make a box. I modified the file to make a sliding lid and other items. Went to adjust the tabs and nothing worked. You taught me something in LightBurn,. You know give a man a fish, teach him to fish, blah blah blah.......
I'm glad you found the video helpful. I am designing a two-in-one box for two different games. I used a box generator at first. But I found I had to go back and fix everything about the design to make it Lightburn friendly. Thank you very much for your generous donation.
Thanks! That was great information, will save a lot of time in the future. Keep up the good work!
Huge thank you!
I've watched and enjoyed your videos for awhile now. They are very informative. I'm on a "broken income" as well and waiting for the boss to approve the purchase. But I will keep enjoying your videos.
Thank you
thank you for this very helpful video. It helps me so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Great 2 part series. How about putting all your cure youtubes on a cd and sell on line. Many great fixes and knowledge.
Thank you for this video! It answered most, if not all my questions! I’m trying to fix one of my files. Thanks again!
Great to hear! If you are still having problems with a file, let me know. I'm happy to help.
@@HoboWithWood Will do! I appreciate all you do.
Create instructional video. Thanks Steve
Oops, typo. Meant “great”
Great information thanks Hobo Steve!
Glad it was helpful!
Just JOINED, love these INFORMATIVE videos. Keep it up HOBO. Now go get those BOJANGLES BISCUITS. YUMMY. hehe
Yay! Thank you! It is very much appreciated!
Nice tutorial man! Only question I would have is how did the files get like that in the first place? Is it a certain program causing the problems like fusion360 or blender or....... Just curious :)
Since I am only familiar with Lightburn, I have no idea. But I see and fix a lot of files with problems like these.
Just a note to say how much I appreciated your response via email regarding downloads publicly - I appreciated your promptness and courteous reply - many thanks - I'm 73a nd new to Lightburn and laser engraving - thanks for all your support
Customer service has always been important to me. Both receiving and giving. While I do not believe "The customer is always right," I do believe the one providing a service should do everything on their power to make it a pleasant experience for all parties involved. Thank you for your support and the kind words.
I'm using Inkscape as there is no lasers in my fixed income for now. Noticed when people are cutting or engraving, the laser beam seems to just jump from one spot to another spot and so on and so on. That seems like a lot of wasted time to me. This got me to thinking about the Naming and assigning numbers to Groups and Paths in Inkscape. For an example, the Group number would be like Group 567, which is assigned to objects which were previously selected & grouped. The Paths for an object were just as bad. An Objects had 6 paths assigned to it by Inkscape, those paths numbers wouldn't start with 1, path1. Oh no, path3823, path3756, path289, path9538. See what I mean. What would happen if those paths numbers were renamed sequentially from left to right, as an example, like path300, path301, path302, path303.
This may not make any sense at all.
Just thinking without a laser to test out my theory in Lightburn.
The cut/engrave order with a laser is determined by a few different things. I've seen other makers comment on the order in which the laser moves, and they weren't pleased with the way that Lightburn picks. There are different settings in the optimization of the laser. So, depending on how each maker has those settings picked, you may see several different paths using the same design. Also, you want to do your engraving first and then the cutting. And with the cutting, you want to cut all the inner shapes first. While these three choices may not be the most efficient, it does result in the best possible outcome. Lightburn also prioritizes the job by layer. So, a design with multiple layers with different settings to produce different results with each layer and a layer for cutting would appear to be moving totally erratically. But it is supposed to be moving in the most efficient way possible. That said, I have watched it make moves that didn't always make sense. One thing I have done in the past to say time on engraving larger designs with a lot of "white space" is to break the design down into quadrants. Assigning each quadrant to a different layer. Each layer still had the same settings, so the result looked good. But this eliminated the majority of the wasted travel of the white space. When you speak of creating paths, that is essentially what layers will do in Lightburn. If you wanted to take the time to assign certain areas of a design certain layers/paths and then make sure the priorities are set to cut/engrave by layer order. You might save a little time under the laser. But I think it would be a wash giving the time it would require setting up the different layers/paths. The difference might be seconds or minutes. It wouldn't be huge. My suggestion there would be if the laser isn't working fast enough, you need a faster more powerful laser. But I've learned firsthand that you sacrifice quality for speed. But if you were going to come up with a numbering system, I would recommend numbering like the interstates in the US. Low to high odds, west to east. And low to high evens, south to north.
@@HoboWithWood An excellent response to dumb question. I had not thought of doing a quadrant type layering, but that really makes since. Here was thinking take the time to look at the design, yes - leave the cut for last, but then move from left to right (west to east) then onto Top to bottom (north to south).
I knew there had to be a reason why I liked your videos other than seeing a fireplace with a plugged up flue exhaust vent & no stove sitting in front with a big kettle of beans being slowly cooked. 🤣👻👽👾🤖
Love the fact that you do things that include mistakes makes your videos more human.
It's said we learn from our mistakes. I think it's important that folks see I make mistakes all the time. And there are a few other reasons I show my mistakes. One is because I too lazy to try and edit them out of the videos. But the biggest reason is if I removed my mistakes from the videos, they would be half as long resulting in less time folks are watching my videos. 😎
Thanks! This video really helped me too!
Glad it helped! And thanks for the support!
Hey Hobo. Here I am again.
You are hilarious.
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A huge thank you right back at ya!