Remove Orphan Points?

LightBurn Software Questions
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I have a design (not my creation) that has some oddities in it that I’ve been working to clean up so it works with some of the Lightburn features like the Slot Resizing. It seems that some of the objects have extra points that are not connected to the shape. Is there any way to clean up these orphan points easily?

I’ve tried the “Fit shapes to lines” option but no luck.

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Thank you!
Jared

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I just hover over the small red square and press the “D” key for deleting the point. Works fine for a small number of points but would be nice to have the ability to show them without having to move the node that is covering it up.

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Unfortunately there are a decent number of nodes and unless I move the joined node I can’t delete the orphaned node (they are coincident). 2nd pic above shows the joined node moved from it’s original location. Hovering over and deleting always deletes the joined node and not the orphan.

Jared

4

Could you attach an example LightBurn file that demonstrates this issue for us to have a look at?

5

Certainly, file is attached. Just for clarification, I don’t think this is a LightBurn issue…just would like a way to solve it in LightBurn. It seems to cause issues with the Slot Resizing tool.

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Jared

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I’ve downloaded the file (twice) and nothing is showing upon opening the file either time.
I even opened the file in Notepad but there’s nothing in the “text” portion either.
Notepad++ shows a long string of many [null] characters.

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As @StevenM said, this seems to be an empty file as I’m not seeing anything either when I open it.

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Apologies, sometimes copying files via Remote Desktop between the PC and the Mac causes issues. Hopefully this one should work.

Coincident Points.lbrn2 (17.3 KB)

Jared

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That’s odd. I looked at potentially different strategies of resolving this but the simplest may be:

  1. Select all shapes relevant for your design or that you want to “fix”.
  2. File->Export->save to SVG
  3. Import exported SVG

From my test this seemed to cleanup the orphaned node.

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I tried doing something similar but with a BMP…not sure why I didn’t think to export and import an SVG. I’ll give that a go.

Thank you!
Jared

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