Since you have to have a ‘closed’ object to apply a kerf, Lightburn knows what is inside and outside…
The problem with kerf really shows up when you do something like a box. If the kerf is good from base/top to side, then where the both sides meet they have the same kerf… I’ve found it better to split the kerf equally under these conditions…
There are other issue on how Lightburn has implemented this.
I have a ‘cover’ for my stereo that is simply a piece of flat mdf… each corner has two short sides to keep the cats from sliding it off the top of the stereo…
It’s too large to get into the machine, so I have to do each corner separately…
This is a corner and the rectangular slots are ‘feet’ or standoffs to allow air movement out the top of the stereo. You can’t apply a kerf to the open segment or line that is the edge of the cover…
In LB I probably done my “fix” all wrong but…
I used the Edit Nodes to set exactly where I wanted to change the dimensions of tabs then applied the value/values.
Time consuming but it works for me.
One of the things I found with Lightburn, was I could use all my experience from cad work and get things to work in Lightburn with some effort…
As I got better with Lightburn, I found that I rarely have to go outside of the application and that with the right ‘open mind’ it was very simply done in Lightburn.
The only two pieces of software I use outside of lightburn are gimp for photograph manipulation such as dodge and burn areas and Freecad where I can set it up a parametric drawing so I can adjust the parts relative to each other. I then export via svg or dxf.
I run Ubuntu, so it needs to operate on a Linux based platform.
Thanks for the answer. I’m on Mint and very happy except camera support. But it’s probably more me who is not good enough at Linux. When I give it another shot I will probably ask nicely for help.
No no, same computer with camera connected via usb and LightBurn via LAN. LB always crashes when I want to use the camera. It has been going on right from the start. However, it must be said that it is not an original LightBurn camera and the fault can easily lie with this camera. Customs and taxes make it too expensive for me to buy an original camera.
Yes, tests with my camera in “Cheese” / Linux Mint work fine.
The last time we discussed this issue in the forum here, the conclusion was that I should switch to Ubuntu. But, I’m kind of the type who never touches a running system , so I’m still on Mint and actually also happy that everything else has run completely problem-free since I started the machine (laser and PC).
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, so I’m still on Mint and actually also happy that everything else has run completely problem-free since I started the machine (laser and PC).