I have recently tried using this feature and I can tell you it is specifically for basic borders. Used on anything complicated like road maps it can actually lock up y our pc, overheat and fry your memory.
I think it should be removed until they figure some protection. Even a preview can cause damage to your PC.
Or, am I doing soemthing wrong lol
Which suggests a problem with the PC, not the algorithm, because the hardware should be capable of operating without overheating.
Perhaps running a known-difficult stress test will help you pin down the problem:
It’ll definitely test a laptop fan …
I connected my flight simulator PC to the C02 and even on that 6k PC it hangs up at 22% and starts using up the memory and i never let it run enough to maybe finish it. But yes it isnt meant for complicated designs, but it should be made very clear not to try it.
I think you are asking for a bit much wanting software to allow for design faults of any/all computer design faults by computer manufacturers, I have seen an Excel spreadsheet that took 87mins to recalculate, do you think M$ should have to rewrite a section of Excel to cater for 0.00001% of spreadsheets ?. You have identified it as a hardware problem yet want software to cater for it.
You are missing the point, since, even if just a remote chance, it can possibly damage your memory it should be displayed. Saying it is not meant to to complicated designs is one thing, actually the potential to damage is another.
That being said, I figured out a way to limit calculations for at least doing my svg downloaded road maps.
I turned it in to an image and traced it. Somehow that cleaned it up to allow completion of the process.
If your computer system wasn’t already inherently broken (or at least severely flawed), then there’s no risk of damage and nothing for LightBurn to warn about.
If we’re going to ask to be warned about things that could remotely happen, regardless of the root cause, I’d like a warning about being hit by meteorites while using LightBurn.
Now, if the request was more in the lines of wanting the software to make a rough calculation about how long some long running process might take and ask you to confirm your intent to run it before committing you to the long running process, then sure, that might be useful.
If you’re intent on warnings that “this software may uncover issues with your already flawed hardware setup”… well, I doubt you’ll get much support; but feel free to open a feature suggestion for either scenario.
There is nothing that LightBurn can do in software just by running calculations that should be able to physically damage your computer - that’s just not how software works.
One thing that stood out in your request: You said “I turned it into an image and traced it” - The Offset Fill function is known to be sensitive to artwork that has “bowties” in it, and by that I mean geometry that crosses over itself, like this:
Sometimes designs that aren’t clean will have areas like that. The problem with those is that the Offset function needs to know the inside and outside of a shape, and mathematically, that shape is like a moebius strip - it’s not clear which side is in vs out, so you get this when trying to offset it:
There is at least one way you can draw a shape that will cause the offsetting tool to offset outward when told to offset inward, and that can cause it to try to run forever. I’m having a hard time getting it to do this now, of course, since I’m actually trying to make it fail. 
I run three 55 inch 4k monitors for microsoft flight simulator and full ultra settings with no problems. I would hardly say my flawed hardware. But as I mentioned, I figured a way to fix my intended use and knocked my engraving time from 75 minutes to 16. so now I know. This was the image i was engraving. 11 x 17 inches
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