Image difficulties, need to utilize measurements

Hi, first time poster, long time lurker. I am running an Ortur laser master 2 pro, windows 10, lightburn 1.0.04.

I am atempting to cut a rectangle 3x1inches with two holes: .20 inches wide centered at each end .25 inches from the outer edge. For the life of me I cannot get ANY SOFTWARE to perform the task of creating the cut file. I am making leather tags for beanies. an order that needs to be precise.

Can anyone direct me on where I can create this simple shape precisely, whether it is within light burn itself or another EASY software (I cannot figure out another stupid piece of software) so that I can then layer my raster images on top of the line cut? I am desperate.

wow! These are perfect, model A is what I was referencing by my measurements. Was this built in lightburn or outside? I could not find a way to create it with any ease.

I would love to know what you used to create the image & how it translates into a cutable file, this would have saved so much hair pulling out yesterday

This is one of the many ways to do it in LightBurn, there are probably other ways that are faster or better.

@RalphU, what have you used for a program for your fine technical drawing?

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I use fusion360

Thank you! your explanation was spot on, I absolutely was not confused- it made perfect sense. Learning new techniques always takes me a minute to grasp, multiple tries to execute and a bit of tweaking to understand it in a way that stays in my head. I will be utilizing your directions for sure on other features as I need to create cutable designs regularly & this technique will be really helpful without having to also learn a CAD program in tandem. I know I will have to utilize it later, but I can only grasp one program at a time.

Thank you again! I hope this helps someone else too!

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Wow! I didn’t know about the add or subtract function within the xy axis! Ridiculously clever! I will have to utilize that feature as well! Thank you!

@RalphU and @bernd.dk, thank you both so much for this contribution. Awesome. :slight_smile:

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Indeed, thank you @RalphU & @bernd.dk I know I will be referencing this thread for a long time to come so I can remember how to perform these functions. This forum has been so very thankful!

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