Saving time in lightburn- faster burns 

Thank you for your hard work and precious time! Very cool hearing how this stuff works , makes me appreciate it all the more. Thanks again!

I absolutely love lightburn, it's such a great program. There are a few little features I wish they'd add but it's mostly all very minor stuff. The main thing I wish was a bit easier is picking up a job if for some reason the laser stops, it gets unplugged, maybe the computer crashes or whatever. For cuts it's not really a big deal since picking up a bit before the job stopped and double cutting a little bit isn't an issue but for engraves it's really hard to accurately pick up at a precise spot. Another great video, thanks for it :D Instead of chopping the ring/heart I'd probably go for an offset fill, that's perfect for thin fill lines like that or borders with a lot of white space. Chopping it up though, I hadn't thought of that and that method will certainly have it's uses in the future! The ctrl/alt/shift + arrow key settings- that's really handy, I'm learning a lot with this vid :D

Glad that these are ready. Yay!!!!

Your videos are a real eye opener and huge time saver. Thnx

New to the laser world and the information that you pass on is mind blowing. Keep up the great work. Payback completed lol.

39 min savings!!! That's awesome! This is so great Thank you for sharing.

Great time saver. Thanks for sharing with us.

Glad to see you saved time on the stove topper designs, and thank you for showing this tip for the boxes, it definitely helps alot, keep up the great work 👌

Brilliant time saver! Probably a little late now, but you could fit 4 boxes on your sheet of ply, now that you have bunched them up. Thanks from the UK.

Thank you for a great video, I try your tip with a 400mm Heart, and I cut it up and also used a better way that does not need to cut it up. Original time = 4 hours ( Cut Time = 38:56 Mins) (Un-Cut original with "Flood Fill = ON" Time = 38:46 mins). The Flood Fill setting is in the Advance Tab in the Cut Setting Editor.

I struggled to watch since I don't even have lightburn yet, but well worth the information. I was like... why?! Now I know, Thanks!

Thanks. Very educational video. 🙏🙏🙏

Great video! I'm learning a lot....

This is a technique that I hadn't thought of, and it will definitely be handy. Thanks. I also use the Offset Fill on a number of things if it's a simple design. That isn't always the effect you want, though, since the laser will be changing directions, so it isn't the cure-all for cutting time. What you've shown us here is definitely a good tool to have in the toolbox. Thanks! The downside, though, of overlapping the box cuts is that you can make the box joints fit tighter if you separate the pieces, because the kerf will alllow some slack in the joints. I would have aligned the straight edges of those pieces that have straight edges, including having the fingers touch each other (but without overlapping), and then adjust the finger sizes to get a good fit accounting for the kerf.

Great tips… thank you!

What an awesome video! I was just wondering about this very thing! I've done several boxes and thought that there should be a way to put the parts together and save time. You showed me how to do it! Thanks!

Great tips. And I hit up MayMay.

BTW thanks for showing us the tips in lightburn, I’m sure it will helpful when my wife’s laser shows up.

If the Walmart shop vac doesn’t last get a ridgid shop vacuum they guarantee them for life and even the batteries. Keep up the great work. I can’t wait till I get my d1 pro finished setting up.

Good video, my suggestion would be once you have your second box (the blue part of the Heart) done, you could just use mirror image tool for the third black box, which would save you time.

Thanks for sharing

UTTERLY Fantastic, Super Dave!! This reminds me of my days teaching Instructional Technology at MS State University when, in classes (graduate, especially) that involved students having to maximize screen space on product layouts was a real "stress maker" (for the students). This example you showed us would have been terrific! Hmmm. As I think about it, I think I'll share this episode with my son and daughter-in-law who teach in the Art Department (graphic design, advanced typography, advanced web design, etc.) at Jacksonville State University, 'cause this will be precious material for them to use. Now, I could just get them to drop a few coins into your tip jar when they do so, that'd be über cool! And, don't worry! My wife has been a MayMay follower for quite a while for making wreaths, etc., so we'll go over there and give her some "payback"!! So, thanks for yet another great job, sir. ~Dr. Larry S. Anderson • Tupelo, MS (birthplace of Elvis) [Follow-up: Payback bomb just left on Maymay's YT channel! Fun!]

I'm glad you were able to try out my idea and that it saved you so much time. And, thank you for sharing it with everyone! You could make your heart burn even faster by setting the Scan Angle to 90 degrees for the top layer of the heart. But, wood engraves a little differently when the laser scans parallel with the grain vs. cross grain, so you may not like the end result. Burn a smaller heart on some of that scrap wood and see...

Great video, ive just started following you. I was wondering if you had set you laser to not travel over the white area's that cuts down the travel time a great deal. i couldnt tell in the video. Thanks

I did it on May May's Channel

Love the time saving technique, thank you, i will use this idea. Just noticed that instead of doing 3 boxes per sheet, why don't you fill it up with about 1/2 a box more pieces, and do the other 1/2 a box on the 2nd sheet, that way you have less waste wood, and you will get an extra box out of every 2 sheets. cheers from Dallas Texas y'all

Thank you for sharing. I kept thinking there should be some way to overlap lines but like you, did not know enough about lightburn (yet!) Also, would you share what you charged for the boxes?

Of course, you could consider turning on Flood Fill in the advanced tab of the fill layer... the heart time would drop dramatically

Very helpful... would have been nice to see an assembled box and maybe the process in the design... I'll subscribe...

First- thanks awesome. Thanks. Second- save another 15% by deleting the single box on the right and copy paste the two boxes. Giving you 4 boxes on one sheet. Sorry for your buddy will get less scrap. LOL.

FYI, By moving the right side box parts, up even with the top box on the left a large open usable wood area would remain on the bottom right quadrant instead of two smaller areas at top & bottom of right side above and below the right side box parts AND it should reduce the Cut time even further, I believe.

Have you updated your lightburn software. Because I have a later version that lets me reduce the white space in other words the trace would not be in the traditional left tonight scan but follow the path of the burn.😁🛫

Put all pieces on the same Layer if desired. If you do, click the Optimize button on the Laser Tab and process by Group. Each Heart part is a ‘Group’ and will burn separately and in an order of LB’s choosing. Verifiable in Preview.

Maybe i missed something, but how come you had the 3 sections of the heart, set to cut at different speed & power?. Also with the boxes, doesn't that mess the kerf line up? Do they still fit snug? Thank so much for your videos, you're easy to watch, very down to earth👊... & let me move my little head had me dying🤣💀

You may want to look in the Cut Setting Editor when doing a fill and make sure the Bi-Directional Fill is clicked on.

Thank you so much for teaching me how to adjust the distance the selected object goes with using keyboard arrows. As a tip to speed up your design chopping (which I'm so excited to implement), I would suggest editing the file in a different software that has a knife tool and then exporting it as a svg. I personally use my silhouette studio designer edition ($30ish flat fee for upgrade that allows svg export). It literally has a knife the will take the orginal object and slice it cleanly without the need to make duplicates of your object. (Make sure the solid object is selected top left) Then once you do that, group your cut sections together. Or use make compound path and that will make as of its one object. I'm sure you will figure out easy. I actually use that to design and port over to lightburn all the time. It's an easier designer software. Technically it's for my silhouette blade cutter machines, but I use it to design for all my stuff and port over to whatever software I need. Hope it helps

Hi what camera do you use for lightburn d1 pro laser thanks

Is kerf offset not an issue when using only one line to cut? I'd think the joints would be loose, are they not?

Nice work, you save even more time if you set it on offset fill. Eliminate white space

Could have used your green heart piece to cut the excess off your other two layers before cutting those in half as well. Then you'd know for a fact that they were zero-overlap. Edit: Forgot to say thanks for posting, but I mean it. Love the helpful spirit of the LightBurn user base.

I'm curious, what is the advantage of cutting this in several part instead of doing an "offset fill" instead of a fill? Also, when "cutting 2 piece with one cut", do you have to adjust your file for the kerf or something? I'm curious, when doing those boxes, do you do anything to clean a bit the edge to prevent your customer to have some burned stuff on their finger?

Doesn't "offset fill" accomplish the same thing by eliminating the laser from crossing over the white space?

Great Video but, been tryin' for 2 days, and I can't seem to get it - would you be so kind as to gimme a step by step rundown, Please

Flood fill would help. Alternatively use offset fill. You’d probably drop it down to 10 minutes with offset fill with the original. Look into it.

To me it looks like you could fit in four boxes on that single sheet jut by moving the box on the right side upwards and make one additional box below that...

Could you put a fourth box on your jig?

I get it in concept but I'm having trouble actually understanding. I tried replicating the exact same design with a heart. If I draw it as a shape it follows the path and completes in minutes. If I use a SVG, it still follows the Line. If I bring it in as a PNG then it wants to process it as an image and would take over an hour, but would I ever really do that or would I just Trace the image which brings it back down to minutes. I'm just not sure of the scenario where I'd add some line art and let it process like an image? I think I just don't understand the initial scenario

You’d think that would be built into the software?

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Cutting your boxes, have tried or considered cutting four at time? To save even more wood.

yes it works but by round shape like a mandala what is filled inside I can't find a way how to improve the engraving time

Now that is some serious constructive machine time reducing elements. I think ur finally getting into the element of the industrial engineer. They tell u the fastest way to cut, deburr, assemble, paint and ship the product. In the short form 1. Eliminate all waste motions in burning. 2. Do as much of the side labor elements while the machine is cutting. 3. Do as much of the support labor elements during the machine cycle time. Like rubber banding the pieces after the machine starts cutting ur next parts. If u spend 2 minutes removing and bundling the pieces while the machine waits for u your not very efficient. There’s a whole industry designed to eliminate wait time.

Lightburn have a fast whitespace scan. Have you tried it? Go to edit, device settings, Look in the middle of page. Check it and enter 7000 in the box. Each time Lightburn finds Whitespace it will zoom over it fast. Set it one time and it will do it all the time.

Curious… Why not put the Split Heart in your Art Library as ‘Heart - Split’ or ‘Heart - Segmented’ as opposed to saving a Template? Just a preference or is there a Filing System involved? TIA. I use a 7TB WDMYCLOUD for a NAS very similar to your “Clack Share” mapped G: drive but I don’t have it mapped. I just use the \\Network-resource-name\ to access files. Forgot you could mapped to Drive letters this way… 😂 👍

Simpler way is to use flood fill, this automatically does what your forcing it to do (use fill then in layer pop up select advanced tab then turn flood fill on)

Try offset fill instead of fill. The laser follows the shape with no white space. the heart you cut up will take about 10 minutes to burn, without cutting it up

If the Heart ❤️ is symmetrical, you should be able to dupe then flip the Blue piece Horizontally and move it over the black piece. Easier & faster than using cropping again on the black layer.

Wouldn't it be easier to just go into your cut settings and click on flood fill?

Well…… I don’t have a laser yet but I’m looking and have found a 10 w for 500

Couldnt you mirror the first 2 and get 4 on a sheet

I'm not saving much time waiting for you to get to the point 😂

Just use line fill without all this work

Looks like you could have got 4 per piece.

You don't have to do all that...Just turn on flood fill and voila!A 5hrs44min job with flood fill off, with flood fill on...Bam!44minutes,,,There...I just saved you more time...Loll

Why not just trace it and turn it into a vector file. Then there is zero white space and there's no reason to cut up the image.

Literally none of this is necessary, just use flood fill

I like you work but you talk to much just to explain something simple

Done brother, I posted on one of Maymay’s videos #paybackfromtheclackshack