Adding weight to DXF file where stroke is zero

[Woodworkteacher (Mark Gannon)]

When a student sends me a Dxf files and for gets the stroke. I can still see word but it will not cut. Is there a trick so i can add weight to line rather than going to illustrator.
Thanks
Mark

[Hank (Hank Morgan)]

@Woodworkteacher

When a student sends me a Dxf files and for gets the stroke. I can still see word but it will not cut.

Student gets a C- for forgetting to give stroke a width. I don’t think there’s a cure from within Lightburn.

If there is then I’m about to learn something new also…

[Woodworkteacher (Mark Gannon)]

Thanks for the reply. They will also get clip in ear for wasting my time. Thats when all schools return to normal of course.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

LightBurn does not use line weight or stroke settings from the source artwork. You must convert these to paths first.

In LightBurn, you can address adding “thickness” to a path using the Offset tool.

[Woodworkteacher (Mark Gannon)]

Thank you
I will give it a go. You may have just saved a kids grade and not to mention their ear.
Kind regards
Mark

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

This is from another recent post and might help the kids understand a bit more about how they can adjust their design for laser output.

Make lines burn as a single line

The only way to make a single laser line thicker is to put the beam out of focus and use more power. If it is in focus, it’s like a pen - it produces lines with a fixed, uniform width. If you want to make thicker lines with a pen, you need to draw more lines beside each other.

[Woodworkteacher (Mark Gannon)]

They are pretty good really they are learning all this remotely and for the most part all they want to do is use tools in the workshop.
I am in conversation with school and lightburn about getting 50 floating licenses. That way students can use that to design their projects.
Thank you again for the information it is a learning curve for all of us.
Kind regards
Mark