Definitive reference on 'Kerf' setting?

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

Most machines have the X axes or head/drag chain riding on the Y carriage meaning the Y axes can’t be as fast as the X axes. When you change the X axes in some other direction where Y needs to move, it usually slows down the whole process…

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About 20:20 minutes into this video they speak to the Lightburn developer that created the dot width adjust function. He explains it very well…

The whole video is very good.

And a quick Oz explanation…

Dot width correction?

It’s a new setting for images that is used to compensate for the fact that your beam has width. If you tell LightBurn to dither an image. On a 50% grey bit, it produces alternating on/off short line segments, like this: [image] If you draw the width of the beam, it looks more like this: [image] If you look at that 2nd image, the gaps between the lines are shorter now than the lines themselves, because of the shape of the beam. ‘Dot Correction’ is the total amount to shorten the line, t…

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