I saw a YouTube video by Computer Creationz. He demonstrated this Lightburn feature in the Cut Settings Editor, ans I don’t seem to have it. I downloaded LB within the past 4 months.
Dale
That was either an older video or the person was using an older version of LightBurn.
The Fill + Line mode has been superseded by Sublayers functionality which covers Fill + Line as well as any combination of operations.
More information on how this works here:
Thanks for your reply. I’ve tried this just now, and when I select my “test”, and press frame. A Window pops up and says I have no layers set to output. But, I do when I entered line 1 as fill, and line 2 as line, both set to output.
Check the “Cut Selected Graphics” switch in the Laser window.
It requires a selection of shapes and/or images to be made in the workspace to generate output.
Turn off the switch to output normally. 
Upload a full screenshot of LightBurn with your design loaded and ready to burn if you’re not able to work out what’s going on based on @JohnJohn’s explanation.
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Nothing is selected…
Can’t see the workspace but with “Cut selected graphics” selected you must actively select the shapes on the workspace that you want to be considered for burning.
If you disable “Cut selected graphics” all shapes will be in consideration.
Note that this has nothing to do specifically with the use of sublayers. This is how shape consideration is handled in LightBurn generally.
Sorry you couldn’t see the work space. As I said this is a test to see how various settings work. My “graphic” is actually two words of text. They were selected. I checked the box as John John suggested. Still won’t go.
Whether I enable or disable, It doesn’t work. I’ll try again in the morning.
By the way, you suggested on my engraving, that you would cut in 2 passes. what speed and power do you suggest for 1’4" baltic birch. I was doing one pass at 12 mm/s at 35% power. I have a 60 watt machine.
Thanks!
Dale
Hard to say. I suggest you run a material test to get a firm familiarity with your hardware.
However, if your machine is anywhere close to properly tuned I suspect 12 mm/s at 35% power will absolutely torch the material. In fact, you’ll likely cut clean through. I’d suggest increasing speed by at least 10x and starting with a much lower power, perhaps 11% or so. That should give you a starting point.
Well, today is a new day! I deleted the test I was trying to do with multi layers and started over again, exactly the same and it works! I’ll call it a glitch!
I received an article from you yesterday about multi layers. In it, it said you could have as many as 11 sublayers. What would that even look like? For what kind of project would that be used?
You should explore the options available in the various operations. With change to scan angle, line interval, cross-hatch, z offset, etc. There’s a lot of variation that you could potentially apply. The 11 sublayers is an arbitrary limit so I think the idea was to simply allow flexibility so that people could be free to experiment even if it were not to be used all the time. It’s likely that the most common scenario will be to mimic Fill + Line… or the reverse, Line + Fill. There’s an argument that doing line first can create a cleaner look on some machines.
Thank you, great explanation
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