I am excited - new paradigm and full success with project

I have to take a minute to brag on LightBurn. I used a multi-step process to overcome a significant difficulty in my shop.

TLDR - LightBurn made it possible for me to 3D print a part for a new machine that arrived with a key component that was damaged. Using Lightburn has opened a new path for me to greatly expand the usefulness of my 3D printer :smiley:

The whole story:

I got a new leather sewing machine to facilitate my business of making award banners. The prototype award banners were sub-contracted a brother-in-law for sewing. The proof of concept run of award banners was well received, and follow on orders are coming in at a pretty good rate. My wife ordered the machine from Amazon. There was a small metal piece that was broken in transit. We did not find that until we set the machine up toady. I have 2 weeks before another order is due, and I don’t want to burden the brother-in-law (again).

Time for a collaboration between my hobbies. I took a picture of the broken part, imported it into Lightburn. A quick TRACE of the image, cleaned up the results with node editing, set the dimensions as needed and saved as a plain SVG file. I jumped over to TinkerCad, imported the SVG file and exported to the slicer program. Less than 5 minutes later, I had a 3D printed part that would have taken me a great deal of effort to shape in CAD… or taken weeks to resolve through Amazon. We finished the assembly and now have a functional sewing machine and a huge pressure was lifted from my mind.

Photo of broken part

Imported, Traced and node edited

TinkerCAD

Sliced and ready to print

Finished and installed

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Now that is serious using the tools you have on hand. Totally impressive!

I too have used Lightburn for non-laser design work. Excellent tool for “drafting” a project.

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