Best method for printing a paper template?

LightBurn Software Questions
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I haven’t needed to do this before today. I got it done, but figure there must be an easier/better way.

I have a bunch of little parts I need to glue to a plain painted background and want to have a full scale template I can use for part placement, orientation, and identification. Engraving the outlines on the background is not an option.

I selected the entire design and exported as SVG, then opened the SVG in Gimp, converted to black and white, cropped it to a printable size, and finally printed it. It does what I needed, but was more work than seems necessary and the line weights are rather excessive.

I could export DXF and do a similar thing in CAD, but that also seems a bit cumbersome.

How would you approach this task?

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Is there a reason why printing from LightBurn was not an option? Not obvious from the description.

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I’ve used a chipboard layout guide:

That’s cut using the same layout as the black acrylic inside the coaster.

Similarly, a palette holding glass fragments while I built the matching earrings:

I used the same bankshot off GIMP to get the outlines of the glass fragments, because there’s no other way to do it. If you’re starting with the part outlines from some other source, use them!

You could engrave the part ID next to the apertures, similar to these manila beam targets:

Takes a while, but you get perfect alignment without trying.

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I may have missed an option in the direct print dialog, but I don’t recall seeing a way to scale it to 100%.

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Hi Chris,
try exporting from lightburn as an svg, open it in your browser and printing it.
I’ve done this and it always printed correctly from the Brave (chrome) browser.
cheers,
Rob

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