One of the best vids I've seen. No fluffing about and straight to the point and a nice pace with no unneeded whafle. Will have a check to see if you have done more vids, if not please do, appreciate it.
Flood Fill FTW! I'm trying to make a simple box to use for a template and it was going to take well over and hour! With your help it's now down to just a touch over 6mins!!!! HAHAHAHA! Thank you very much!
Awesome amount of information. Have watched several videos about "saving time on your laser cuts" and none of them covered at least half of what you shared. Thanks!
Big thanks. I was trying to find out if there was something like the flood fill but didn't know where to look or what it was called. Only cut 25% off my time but any time saving is good.....
That was awesome! Tonight, I was watching my laser go all the way across my 14 inch engraving, to engrave a 1/2 inch space on each side of it, and I got to thinking, "Surely there must be a better way?" And there is! Thanks a ton, for this short, but well done, and very useful tutorial!
Excellent information. Changes a lot in almost every facet of preparation as well. Amazing the amount of time reorganizing the process after learning the intricate details. It really is formulaic.
Just got my laser last week and wow am I thankful to have found your video, I was getting discouraged at these horrendous cut times. You saved the day!🙌🏼thank you!
Just WOW. Thank you so much, these steps literally cut my egraving time in half, or more. And perfect finish too! Thank you so much for shraing these tips!
That was a great, repeat , great video on speeding up a burn time. Showing us how to reduce time from over 4 hours to about 15 minutes. Keep up the Great work. Thank you very much. I am very new to this activity and have a lot to learn. I learned a lot about where to find certain things and what other things are used for. Thank you sir
that's what i was looking for to scape the empty arias, your explanation was super cool and easy to understand, just one thing raise you voice and give some energy to your speech. great, thank you
By far the most helpful tips on shortening burn time! My only question is will it remember this or do I have to change every time? Thank you so much! I subscribed!
So flood fill works if the object you're cutting is a SOLID piece of etching as a frame, but if you have text on that frame or any other graphics anywhere else flood fill does NOT work to speed up your projects. With my regular scanning etch, my project takes 10 minutes to burn, with flood fill enabled for the same project it went up to 13 minutes. You're better off using OFFSET FILL mode.
My cut savings editor doesn't have an "advanced"option... I can't find flood fill, so I'm looking at an 7 hour job. Maybe I have a newer version and flood fill is somewhere else... I can't find info on it anywhere.
Background music is distracting and you're talking in such a low tone, it's hard to hear and understand. If I have to turn up my volume to hear better, I get speaker noise. Great information, just need to adjust future videos for the best presentation.
I do hope you see this sir period I see that on your cuts and layers or move that you have the speed expressed as a percentage and not a millimeters per second period I have been on forums and searching the net and can't find anything period can you please tell me how you got that
Nice video and good tips but for this particular shape....you really missed the mark! If you had tried the "offset fill" function, your run times would have been far, far shorter. Most people overlook this feature. It is only typically best for symmetrical fills.
With flood fill it ends up with lines in my engravings. Like the lines didn’t match up where the laser came back to fill. Is there something I’m doing wrong?
I have experienced the same with it leaving noticeable lines if my lines per inch is set too low while using flood fill. Offset Fill, which I didn't cover in this video but will in a future one is an option that should prevent the lines. The preview animation really helps determine the best settings once you figure out what each one does. It allows you to see exactly how the laser will operate and help catch any potential problems. Typically I use flood fill when it allows the later to follow a fairly uninterrupted path.
@@sharingknowledge9941 I'm just a few weeks in with the learning process, but being a science teacher it's been fun rollercoaster. I've thrown some amazing things through it, but the fine details have me miffed. |I have read recently that the stepper motor has to line up with the measurements of the lines per inch, otherwise the remainder gets calculated and shows up as a banding line when overlapping occurs or a line left. When you get to a lines per inch measure that matches with (was it 16?) the stepper amount your problem should be resolved.
Flood fill does require the machine to be set up really well (belts tight, no play in the axis) . If not, it will leave gaps in the burn area. I have not seen it do this when the machine is dialed in correctly though. Not saying it won't but I haven't seen it personally and I use flood fill on most of my projects.
@@sharingknowledge9941 My machine is setup properly. I think what's happening is as the laser moves to different areas the wood shrinks and expands causing it to not get exactly lined up when it resumes in a previous area, usually on larger burns.
Can you help? Will this work on my linear designs which have a transparent / vector background. I was thrilled to see your video and saw it reduced the engraving time by half in the preview box but when I tested it - the time was not reduced even though it said it was in the preview (I timed it and retried three times). Any help on this would be really appreciated.
The vector may hold lines that are not needed by the laser to actually perform the burn on your graphic. If possible, try tracing your graphic in light burn and then burn the trace (that will remove any unneeded lines). I would be curious to know if that helps with your issue or not. If it doesn't let me know and I will attempt to recreate your issue and see if I can determine a way to help. Thanks for watching my video!!
@@sharingknowledge9941 you have been so helpful thank you. This has made an amazing difference to my speed time and therefore my output time. Revolutionary thank you. It has also made me realise there is so much more I need to learn about Lightburn software to utilise it to its full potential and here is the place to start.
I do not appear to have all the options you do in the ‘Basic Settings’ page where you click ‘Fast Whitespace Scan’. Is there anywhere else these settings could be, or am I unable to use this feature? I’m using an 80w 700x500mm OMTech
I believe the white space speed setting is available regardless of laser type. Make sure you are looking up the *Device Settings* and not just the Settings. Under the Edit tab mine are listed side by side and I click the wrong one most of the time.
Voice is too low and the background music is annoying, taking away from your instruction. Good video, allowed me to make a bunch of changes; however, even with the volume up your voice had no rise or reflection!
Yes I know and I apologize for the poor audio on this video. I have a few more videos I am working on now and I am making sure the audio is corrected. I appreciate your input and hope you were able to at least get some good info.
@@sharingknowledge9941 you're videos are very educational and easy to understand as long as we don't have to turn the volume up to a 20 to hear them. I had to add CC to actual learn from the video. Now act you have accepted some comments on your video, I'll continue to follow and watch your channel. Thanks for taking the time to make and edit these video. Keep them up.
I would like to say that I think your program would be pretty good except for two things. First one is you have your music so damn high you can’t hear you. And when the music goes dead, I still can’t hear you because you sound like you’re talking out of your shorts. I don’t get people that make videos on RU-vid and they have your volume turned so high you cannot hear what they’re saying if you want to do a tutorial and explain something turn the fucking music off
