What I don’t like is the preview, it shows me that it will burn the entire ‘block’ and then makes a pass…
Select ‘fill all shapes at once’ and look at the preview. My time with Lightburn has ‘educated’ me that when it “doesn’t look right in the preview” it probably isn’t right…
While you have it there slide the slider up around the 1/2 to 3/4 of the complete job…
I might just have to run it, but the preview kind of it makes me cringe.
I’m not sure what I’m looking at when I use the preview, but I hate to waste 2 hours and the materials, not to mention babysitting it… Of course I’ll know soon enough, but it’ll still waste a chunk of mirror.
The preview shows it engraving the whole thing as far as I can tell…
I’ve been fooling with it for a few weeks… that’s why I finally posted it…
Is there a reason why you want to use “Fill shapes individually”? With all the tiny parts of the design that’s going to have your laser running all over the place. It’s also likely the reason why you’re seeing some odd traversal movements.
From zooming in and looking at the shapes I can see some very long and wide individual shapes. If you are filling each shape individually there would be a lot of excess movement due to this.
I would think for something like this that “Fill all shapes at once” would be your preferred option.
I’d suggest burning this to a smaller piece of paper or something else to confirm it works as expected. The unburned areas are quite thin so you’ll want to make sure they come out okay.
The other potential strategy you could use is to convert the design to a bitmap.
The problem with smaller is that the ‘small parts’ are that much smaller… it’s pretty detailed…
When I scan it, it’s a bitmap for all practical purposes… I’d prefer not to ‘dither’ it.
If I use ‘fill all shapes at once’ the whole thing shows up black in the preview and looks like it double covers the same area again about half way through. Drag the progress bar around at over 50%, shows up rather strange…
Select the lion shape and ungroup multiple times until you cannot ungroup any more. Any “bad” shapes will be limited in their effect.
Select the background shape, add the lion shape to selection, Tools-Boolean Difference. Preview the resulting object. It will complain about open shapes. Select “Show me” and then delete the offending shapes.
