Attempting to close shapes results in very distorted object

[berainlb (PY)]

I have galvo as well so that would be a red herring.

[Thelaserjacks (Craig Bondy)]

@berainlb

You’re saying that it’s the last click where this is occurring and not the first?

Interesting, it is both, but only if I close the shape. If it stays open, the first is the only one that is a curve, it just doesn’t show itself, I just never noticed because the first one is always just straight.

I’m pretty sure this one is a glitch in LB. The last line to be drawn when closing the shape, drags the blue handles that shape the curve to the origin each time. This is why it only works in certain shapes and not others I believe.

Can you guys advise if you agree? Then this is a non issue and we can just let LB know.

[Thelaserjacks (Craig Bondy)]

Are you Mac or other?

[berainlb (PY)]

Win11.

I’ll try this on Mac in a minute.

@Thelaserjacks

Interesting, it is both, but only if I close the shape

That’s not surprising. LightBurn will “continue” the curve started in the first line when it’s closed.

@Thelaserjacks

Can you guys advise if you agree?

I’m not quite there yet. What are you using as input?

[berainlb (PY)]

Just tested on an Intel Macbook running 1.4.05 using the trackpad and it worked without issue.

This doesn’t seem to be something inherent to Macs at least.

[StevenM (Steven Marston)]

I paid greater attention to the clicking to ensure that there wasn’t any movement while doing so. This resulted in As Expected behavior, i.e., no curves were generated.

Oddly, I’ve been designing with the same hardware for years with non-issue. Makes me wonder now if there’s some fast-clicking thingy going on in hardware. Appears to be in the operator’s hands for me at least.

One note of interest… my cat laying beside me was watching the mouse and he didn’t say a word about me putting to much stress on the little thing… LOL

[berainlb (PY)]

@StevenM

Oddly, I’ve been designing with the same hardware for years with non-issue

If I recall correctly the behavior of this changed several versions ago. if true that could explain why this may never have been a problem before.

@StevenM

Makes me wonder now if there’s some fast-clicking thingy going on in hardware

There were a couple of reports early on of people finding out they had failing hardware when this first came up. But then again, that may all have been a fever dream on my part.

@StevenM

my cat laying beside me was watching the mouse and he didn’t say a word about me putting to much stress on the little thing

Probably self-satisfied with you finally learning what he’s been teaching all this time…

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

@berainlb

using the trackpad and it worked without issue

Completely different device. Kind of points the finger back at the mouse.

[cggorman (Chris)]

Mouse accel or sensitivity setting may be a bit too high. I find I have to shuffle mine around if I substantially shift gears on what I’m doing. (Fine, detail work, vs gross edge-to-edge movement)

[Thelaserjacks (Craig Bondy)]

I’m going to say due to the lack of severity and the now likelihood of this being the mouse, I’m going to suggest this is closed. Thanks everyone for the input.

[ErnieHodge]

I didn’t have the time to read every reply in here but I had a similar issue. I was trying to cut a ring (double ring) and join the ends so I would have two half and then four sections.
I had done this a day or two previous.

The second time I tried this it went haywire and I finally figured out I had used two different layers when adding the short lines. The layer colors were very close in the blue range.

When I finally figured it out no more problems. I hope this might help at least someone.

[StevenM (Steven Marston)]

Yeah, sometimes I have to look at the Cut Layers tab to see the numbers imposed on the color tile. Dark blue and black might trip me up. I just turn off one or the other and right click on the remaining one to see what’s flashing. Hope that helps too.