Creating a grid

[Gracierichard00 (Gracie Richard)]

Im trying to make a grid on a waste board, but I don’t have the option to click on the grid array tool.

[LightBurn (Oz)]

You have to draw something first, then the grid tool makes copies of it.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Waste board grid

You could draw two lines, one vertical and one horizontal, sized to match that of your workspace and use the ‘Array’ tools to create a grid quickly. Set this grid layer to ‘Line’ and set appropriate speed and power to just mark your wasteboard. [image] Here I have set the ‘Array’ spacing to match that of my LightBurn ‘Visual Grid Setting’ found in the ‘Settings’ window, currently set to 10mm.

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Drawing a grid the size of my burn area

Let me try again, this might take a few edits to get it all posted so give me a few… Start by drawing a line. I made one the length of the bed which for this laser is 900mm. I placed it on the workspace as shown: [image] With that line selected, click the ‘Array Tool’. [image] [image] Start to increase the ‘Y Rows’ to see the line duplicated on-screen. Note the Y Spacing, I set it to 10mm, which matches my workspace grid spacing. Here I finished this part with a total of 59 lines. Click …