Hey Y’all, I am hoping someone could help me find a solution to a setup I have.
I am trying to make acetate answer keys for a test I help administer. There are several different versions of the test that change often. The answer form and key are a bubble fill in style.
What I am hoping to achieve is a way to have a master key where the bubble to be cut is activated based on information imported from a csv file(open to other suggestions).
Ex. Question 1 options are A,B,C,D the answer is D so only D would be cut out.
Question 2 options are A,B,C,D the answer is B so only B would be cut out.
ETC…
The purpose is to be able to cut the acetate and use that as an overlay that only the correct answer is visible through it and the incorrect answers will be more easily seen.
Really the only reason I am trying to accomplish it this way with a master form is because there are over 1,000 circles I would need to assign to cut if doing it individually and that can be time consuming and leave room for error.
Hopefully somebody could help me figure out a solution…
That’s an interesting task. I can’t imagine how this could be accomplished using LightBurn and CSV import. Because I guess there is no chance to do empty places, I guess. The merge/CSV function will omit empty lines, I guess. You could try to put shapes into the CSV files like an O and get that one cut out.
Maybe there is a way to somehow have it scripted outside of LB, something like generating a graphics using Python or possibly even Latex-code that will then be imported as an image as a cut layer…
Thanks for the reply. Yeah I didn’t figure there was a way, but had to ask just incase. The problem is when importing the pdf or image for the answer key, the bubbles that are prefilled with the correct answers are solid black which is the same black as all the unfilled circles. So it imports all the circles and the one that would need cut on the same layer and the fill is removed making the correct answer just another circle. Oh well, if anyone else has an idea I am open.
