Struggling with path optimization

[hokieinidaho (Lowell)]

I’ve got an excerpt from a creation I made that the laser path optimization is playing the tune to SuperTramp’s “Take the long way home”. Can’t quite figure it out.

When I have border-type fills like this, I often change to offset fill to get away from the raster whitespace. But only when it makes sense.

In this creation, which happens to be a saw blade, the laser path is doing a portion of each tooth, then JOGGING all the way to the other side to do another individual tooth. It does this for 3 minutes; until there appears to be enough “meat” that it then follows my intended offset fill across the entire single path. At that point it goes back and forth across the arc filling in.

As shown in screensnag, it’s a single object (not grouped), and is closed path, hence the fill success.

Cut Path Optimization.lbrn2 (150.3 KB)

[JimNM (James)]

Use FLOOD FILL - under the advanced tab…

Filling in tooth by tooth

[hokieinidaho (Lowell)]

Interesting. Thanks!

I’ll have to study where that came from. Seems like a fix to what I would have expected offset fill to do.

Note: Flood Fill is only available on Fill Mode, not offset fill.

Thanks again!

[JimNM (James)]

Offset fill fills from the inside to the outside. Flood fill keeps the laser in as small area as possible. Both have their uses.

Push every button, try every setting. Use the PREVIEW button to see the results.

Have fun