We get some patterns that people need cutouts for. These are made with hand drawing pens so when it is created or traced it leaves two lines. Most of the pattern makers have one line but a few that some people select off the internet have 2 lines. These creates too much time in redrawing them to have one center line. Is there a way lightburn can do this?
Santa on Tractor orginal.lbrn2 (285.6 KB)
thank you for your help,
Gary
Are you asking if LightBurn has a way of tracing this to a single center line? If that’s the question the answer is no.
Inkscape has a centerline trace function, as does Adobe Illustrator.
When you cut these out, are you engraving the line drawing and then cutting out the outer perimeter? Or are you cutting out the individual pieces of the drawing?
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As @berainlb
writes, LightBurn does not (yet) have center tracing. But in your example, it is relatively quick and easy to “convert” this Christmas decoration into something more laser-usable.
The big advantage here is that all shapes are closed. First, the outermost line must be set to a cut layer. Then you can easily mark everything else and give it a 1mm offset, in one and the same operation.
You can also decide if you want some of the smaller elements on a third layer and decide that it should be engraved and not drawn as a line or you can send the elements to layer 1 for cutting.
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