Numbered Grid Troubles

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

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Waste board grid

How do I go about burning a grid on a waste board for aid in alignment of my work piece I’m sure it is very simple but just starting to use lightburn

Drawing a grid the size of my burn area

Let me try again, this might take a few edits to get it all posted so give me a few… Start by drawing a line. I made one the length of the bed which for this laser is 900mm. I placed it on the workspace as shown: [image] With that line selected, click the ‘Array Tool’. [image] [image] Start to increase the ‘Y Rows’ to see the line duplicated on-screen. Note the Y Spacing, I set it to 10mm, which matches my workspace grid spacing. Here I finished this part with a total of 59 lines. Click …

Creating sequential numbers

The new Variable Text feature will do exactly this. Create a piece of text, type 0dddd, and set it to ‘Serial Number’ as shown here: [image] 0dddd means, ‘leading zero, with four digits’ In the Variable Text window, set the Start and End values to 0 and 9999, and change the ‘Advance by’ value to the number of items you will have on a single sheet. I’m going to do 5 rows of 10, so I’m setting it to 50: [image] I also grouped the text with another object, just to show how it works. Use the…

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