Had to look. So it is! My laptop is 1920x1080, but doesn’t seem that wide. Must be an optical illusion. Maybe because I’m looking at the forum on a portrait phone screen.
When I spent my days behind a desk, I had three monitors. Invaluable real estate for multi-tasking and complex workflows. Spreadsheet and email split on 1, blueprint on 2, 3D model/render on 3. Sometimes I miss it.
You might also have your font scaling turned up. Mine is 100%, but many run 125% or even 150%, and that ends up costing a decent chunk of screen real estate.
i was going to say too, in that image a lot of the top toolbars were taken away so all is a looks more roomy and streched
I like buttons! I have my font set to normal but tool icons set to “larger”. Interesting to see how people choose to set up their workspace. What a great piece of software!
Its just an iMac m1, I still love this machine, doing so much with it… 
And LightBurn works very well on it!
Awesome. Just tested against the newer build. At first glance it seems to now work as stated.
A few callouts:
This is in the works but no ETA yet other than it is finally actively being worked on. It requires something called “Medial Axis” which is a non-solved mathematical problem… as in there is no simple solution and instead basically requires complex brute force math to compute. We’ve had one dev working on it seriously for a few months now. But once we have that it opens up things like center line trace, v-carving, and a whole bunch more. So it’s worth the effort.
That sounds… FUN! 
It’s right up there with automated shape nesting 
cant you write it in a white board outside the office and hope some genius janitor to come by and fix it for ya? 
Good Will Hunting style?
How do you think we hired the current dev working on it 
(Totally kidding, but he’s certainly a wizard with this stuff)
Just hire the guy from Inkscape. Seems you won’t have much of a routing program without ability to vcarve. No vcarve will be a no-go for me on MillMage.
On the centerline topic, you might reach out to Scorch of
https://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html
F-Engrave is a free open-source program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3
This free software takes images or fonts and creates a v-carve file where the bit travels through the center of the letters, etc.
You can then take the gcode and in any most gcode editors, chose to ignore Z-axis moves. Been using it for years. It’s amazing to watch onscreen. Maybe he’d be willing to assist.
IIRC, he’s a math professor or something.
Cheers!
He used brute force for that if I’m not mistaken, which would make it very, very slow for anything but simple shapes (this can be seen in the video - it takes about 7 seconds to compute the V-carve path for the text “V-Carve”). It’s also GPL, which means if I even read his code for reference we’d have to open source LightBurn, which isn’t going to happen. The guy writing ours taught computer science, so they likely have a similar skill set.
InkScape uses an open source tool, called AutoTrace, which is also GPL, again, making it impossible for us to use. AutoTrace uses an approach called ‘thinning’ first, which “erodes away” the image until it’s a single pixel wide everywhere, then traces that and simplifies the results.
The one being written in-house should be significantly faster than either of those, and will be usable for a number of other things as well, including centerline trace, v-carving, and offset fills.
Currently we just use ‘Clipper’ to produce inward offsets, repeatedly, until there’s nothing new created, and this approach is slow. Computing the medial axis and generating offsets from that should be much faster.
Thank you for your kind words of support. We’re working in stages. Initially we’ll have Cut2D level features, and as time progresses we’ll add V-Carving, and quite probably 3D model or depth map handling.
I realize that first iterations of anything aren’t going to fulfill everyone’s dreams. On the other hand, most of what I do routing is vcarving, so I will have no interest in this software until then.
As an aside I have to admit to having some fun at poking and prodding maybe influencing developers. Just as I noticed you like snark
As a peace offering, I will tell you that Lightburn is the only software I have ever purchased. Not even win10.
Your CAD is intuitive and unlike the carving software I use gcode is updated on the fly.
@LightBurn
Thanks for the back story. Just offered the suggestion for possibilities to assist.
Appears you’ve got a handle on a path forward.
Regards…
He is a machinist. Scorch used to go to the makerspace that I started going to when I retired, but he could only use their equipment on weekends. He bought a k40, and didn’t like the software that came with it, so he wrote K40 Whisperer. He chose RED for cut and BLUE for score, because that is how the ULS laser (at the makerspace) worked. Smart guy, and he makes some awesome machines.
Thank you to everyone reporting and committing. We have released 1.6.00 to the public.
