Can't get Group Fill working correctly

[TheMunsie (Alexander O Munsell)]

Lightburn version: 0.9.24

Computer: Macbook Pro

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I’m trying to get the groups to engrave one at a time instead of just a portion of each group, then moving on to other groups, and eventually returning to finish the remainder of the first groups.

I have Fill Groups Together enabled for all layers that have this control enabled.

I also have Order By Group as the only option selected in Optimization Settings.

I have ensured that each set of what I want grouped IS IN FACT GROUPED together. I have checked this MANY times.

I’m not sure why the laser is only doing a portion of each group, moving on, and eventually returning. It’s causing things to come out uneven at times.

Can anyone help?

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[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

@TheMunsie

I want grouped IS IN FACT GROUPED

We don’t know what you have grouped together…

You might want to drop your .lbrn2 file here to be examined. This doesn’t sound like a software issue, more likely something in your setup.

Someone here will spot it…

[TheMunsie (Alexander O Munsell)]

I’m sure it is a problem with the file! Haha

Here’s the file, thanks for the reply.

Heather’s - 10:28:21.lbrn2 (467.4 KB)

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

No perspiration. This happens a lot. The hardest part is just getting what you want it to do across…

Most co2 users are in mm/s.

I’ll look and I’m sure some others will also pitch in with their 2cents worth…

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

This is in the node editor, you can see how complex this is…

If you ungroup that it’s rather messy. How did you make this?

Can’t tell the difference between ‘text’ and ‘c2’ layers It looks like you are trying to outline them?

If you slow down the ‘preview’ I think you’ll see lots strange/redundant movement that is being generated from your art.

[TheMunsie (Alexander O Munsell)]

The offset fill layer was created by offsetting a line (part of the outline of Michigan). It wasn’t intentionally named Text - that’s just leftover from another past file.

The C20 layer is a heart acting as a location pin. It’s fill + line.

The Border layer represents the size of the round wood pieces I am engraving on, and is just used to make sure they’re centered.

Anything else I can answer, ask away! I’m really trying to get this figured out since this is a paying job, and the laser jumping back and forth between the groups means that the wood pieces sometimes move during the job, causing the line outlines to not match up perfectly with their corresponding fills.

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

Did you watch that line execute in the preview? I don’t think you want that type of movement with your laser…?

[Mooseuk (David Rodgers)]

Have you tried ‘fill shapes individually’ rather than ‘fill groups together’ ?

[TheMunsie (Alexander O Munsell)]

That was it, David! Thank you. I knew it was going to be something that made me kick myself due to its simplicity. I just had it in my head that using Group Fill across everything should have worked.

Jack, believe it or not, this is a fairly simple line compared to some others I’ve engraved in the past. I have the speed pretty low, so I don’t believe it’s going to be an issue with damaging parts of the drivetrain - do you think otherwise?

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

I don’t think you can damage it if it’s properly configured, so not a worry there.

What I was trying to point out was that the laser goes around the shape and does parts of, not in any kind of order that I can see. Then it goes back over the lines. This takes time and will change the look of the results. It appears to be a vector cut, but doesn’t preview that way. Didn’t spend too much time going over it. Just seemed odd to me.

Generally, you don’t go over the engraved area again, at least the way this does. Yours seems to hop all over the place.

The preview screen is a valuable asset, make sure you make good use of it.

The only addition the gods of Lightburn need to make to is being able to use the ‘measuring tool’ with in preview. That would be slick…

[LightBurn (Oz)]

This actually appears to be a bug - Order by Group on the image layer should absolutely do what you thought it should, but apparently doesn’t. I’ve fixed this for the next release.