Hey all, I’ve been looking and trying to figure this out. Is there a way to configure the rotary to use different settings if the whole shape is run when “run whole shape if possible” setting is enabled?
I have found that I need different settings for my black engraving on stainless steel if it’s a rotary split fragment or if it’s a whole shape. It would greatly speed up my engravings if I can run whole shapes with the proper settings.
There is currently no optimization that allows for this in LightBurn, at least that I’m aware of. Can you explain in more detail the case and why it’s important?
We have a feature request site here, to keep track of this sort of thing, but the ideas do require validation, so explaining what you’re after in detail will go a long way to getting it on the proverbial board. https://lightburn.fider.io/
So I’m engraving on a stainless steel tumbler. I ended up finding that if running a whole shape, the same settings I use for the rotary splits is just too hot, it looks different and can end up burning at times.
If I can use different settings for whole shapes, I’d be able to speed up engraving but both types (splits vs whole shapes) would still look the same.
If you have an example around, could you share a picture so we can get a better idea? Worth a thousand words, and all that.
I think i follow.
To do what you describe manually I break the art up into “Run Whole Shapes” and non ”Run Whole Shapes” layers with the different parameters, run the first one, then change the rotary settings, then run the second one. It would be nice if different rotary settings could be applied to different layers.
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