Anyway to see shapes

LightBurn Software Questions
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There are time I get the warning about “open shapes” when I preview or send to laser. Is there anyway to see those shapes, so that corrections can be made, or delete then so that the warning does’t happen each time?

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Edit -> Select Open Shapes Set To Scan

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Thanks…I did just try that and it’s selecting the words I had typed, but I don’t see anything wrong with them. Not sure what the problem is.

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You can select them with that, then go back to Edit and select “Auto Join Selected Shapes”. Worth a try.

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Or maybe close path is what I meant. I don’t know what I’m doing. Where am I?

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Did that… didn’t fix it. It’s odd, when they are selected it makes a selection box bigger than my design, but I can’t find anything else.

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You could share the lbrn file here if you’d like, and I’ll take a gander.

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Or maybe close path is what I meant.<<

FWIW, there is an auto close tolerance variable in the settings dialog the might be affecting your ability to be successful when using this function.

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Watsons barber shp 1_backup.lbrn (159.2 KB)

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So it looks like in the top right corner there’s a rogue anchor or something. I deleted it. Then I selected Select Open Shapes, and clicked ‘Weld’ in the tools menu. That seems to have fixed it.

Watsons barber shp 1_backup.lbrn (219.7 KB)

EDIT: Weird that my file is 60kb bigger than yours, and I deleted stuff.

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Thanks…I can’t seem to find it on the original file, I have another file of the same setup just different lettering and it has the same open shapes. It’s driving me crazy, I have tried to manual select different areas all over the screen, but can’t find it. I appreciate you fixing it.

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I finally found the little booger, it’s invisible and I have no clue what it is or where it came from. But I found it and deleted it. Thanks for the help!

Maybe @LightBurn can look at it and see if its a glitch or something else. I can tell you one of them was located about the middle of the scissors.

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Thanks for sharing the file. It will be reviewed. How did you generate the file originally? Step-by-step description can sometimes revel information that helps tracking down issues.

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Only thing imported was the razor and scissors, I converted it in .AI, the “shield” and lettering was done in LB.

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Extra, invisible “things” may have come over from the converted AI file.

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That is a very good possibility. But one would think it would have shown up in the design. I don’t know though.

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Not necessarily. Try to go to Object -> Path -> Clean Up… In Illustrator, and see if it gets rid of that anomaly. You can also go to Object -> Artboards -> Fit to artwork bounds and see if it includes that extra stuff in the artboard.