Problems drawing a straight line from a curved line

[DarrylG (Darryl Gutwein)]

I want to draw a straight line between these half circles, but every time I try it goes to a curved line instead of straight across. What am I doing wrong?

[fred_dot_u (fred ungewitter)]

Don’t drag to start the line. Click on the start point and release the button.

[DarrylG (Darryl Gutwein)]

That is what I was doing, but its not working. I click and release the button before moving the mouse. Also as soon as I click and release the button you can see a little line pop up above the piece before I even have a chance to move the mouse. Strange.
Hover over where I want line to start

Left click where I want to start and a short line pops up above the cursor

Then releasing the button and moving to the right shows this

[DarrylG (Darryl Gutwein)]

Here is a link to the file Flag Case template.lbrn2 - Google Drive
if that helps LightBurn ver 1.4.00

[DarrylG (Darryl Gutwein)]

I just downloaded the previous version and it is working correctly now. v 1.3.01
Yay, I guess I will use this version until the next one comes out. Thanks

[berainlb (PY)]

I believe what you’re experiencing is described and somewhat resolved in this Topic.

Help Closing Path

Speaking with Oz: This is intentional - If you start a shape with curves, we try to finish it with a continuous curve too. If the user started with a straight line, the last thing to connect to it will also be a straight line. If you start with a curve, the last thing to connect to it will continue that curve - that much is (at present) by design. For this case, close the shape with pen, enter node edit and hover over the created line, hit L to make it a line. I have logged an internal req…

Long story short, if extending an existing curve LightBurn will use a curve. If extending a line LightBurn will use a line. You can convert the curve to a line after connecting or use other methods to get around this.

[JimNM (James)]

You can draw a rectangle and overlay the correct sized circles and then use BOOLEAN subtract A-B - done here in solid fill to make it easier to see

select back ground

ctrl-select circles

UseBoolean Subtract

results