I have recently bought a Creality A1 Pro downloaded Falcon Design Space and Lightburn to try. The Creality Community Forum provided a lbdev.zip file which I have used to drive to Laser from Lightburn and this is where my issues start. In Design Space I have produced 3 sample templates for 2mm, 3mm Bassboard and 1mm Laserboard to help provide engrave/cut settings. I was expecting Lightburn to be able to use the same settings for Cut/Engrave as Design Space, but no…
I find that Design Space produces a far higher resultion engraving and and cleaner cut than Lightburn using the same speed and power settings. If I produce an SVG in Lightburn (as it has far better vector tools) and export to Design Space the results are an order of magnitude better than cutting directly from Lightburn.
Has anyone else experienced these issues and if so, solved them?
If I have to kepp producing SVGs to import into Design Space then this is not a problem but I’ll probably revert to Inkscape and export from there … It saves me £90
Since none of us can see what you see… Screenshots (no phone pics please) of both programs showing your settings and pictures of your results along with good descriptions would help.
I am away for the next few days and so it will be difficult to take pictures of the samples I have at home. As soon as I return I’ll do this for clarification.
I am making model railway buildings and include a picture of one side of one of these. They are made from 1mm Laserboard with two skins. The outer skin stuck to the inner one which I hope you can see. The outer skin is of a far better quality and resolution than the inner one.
The inner skin was cut and etched with the following settings; cut 350/60 and etch brickwork 7000/60. Both skins were designed in Lightburn. The inner one was cut directly from Lightburn but the outer one was exported/imported as an SVG into Design Space for cutting. The settings in Design Space were exactly the same for both cut and etch as those for the direct cut. The direct
Lightburn cut charred and barely got through the material. Using the SVG in Design Space produced a very clean cut, a very thin Kerf and no charring.
I suspect there maybe something in Lightburn which is inhibiting using the cutter to its full potential.
With just this info / picture, my first guess is that your air assist settings are different between the 2 programs. Possibly air assist isn’t functioning from Lightburn. Can you confirm that air assist works from both programs?
The only difference between the two is that I used the Auto Focus capability in Design Space. This is not available in Lightburn. However with the material being exactly the same in both cases the laser focus should have not changed.
