Hello,
I downloaded Lightburn to replace my tedious 4 step “SolidWorks > Illustrator > LaserGRBL > CNCjs” workflow, but I’ve noticed that unlike SolidWorks, LightShot doesn’t like Vector Fonts. It tries to close the end of them, which in this case is wrong!
If that could be fixed, it would be awesome!
Thanks in advance.
It’s really the only reason that I haven’t bought the software yet.
Single-line fonts are crucial for me.
We are working on it. We have the basics of an SHX font parser running and continue our work to fully support single-line fonts. CamBam is a font that I am personally using currently in my work, so you may want to look into that as an option for now.
@Fusseldieb where did you get the font in question? If I can get a copy of it I’ll take a look.
Sometimes fonts like that are problematic since they aren’t actually single line fonts. They are regular fonts that are forced to do things they weren’t meant to. But I might be able to debug the issue.
And @Rick is right - I’m actually working on adding full SHX support right now. No ETA yet, but it’s at the top of my task list right now.
Thanks for the answers,Team!
That’s great news! Haven’t yet looked into SHX fonts or how they work, but sounds amazing!
I really thought CamBam was a program. Oh boy, how was I wrong! I just looked into these fonts, but there’s a little caveat: They do every line twice to avoid unclosed splines, which in my case doubles the amount of time to engrave model numbers on products. And when we do, we do a batch of maybe 200 or so. That racks up quite quickly, so that’s not really an option. Also, the material we use carbonizes the surface on a single pass, so if I would pass twice, it would result in a poor engraving.
This font in particular (OLF SimpleSans) comes bundled with SolidWorks and is the reason why I have to do the 4-step workflow mentioned in my original post. However, it’s available to download separately. I haven’t yet found another, more direct way, unfortunately. As a workaround, since it’s always the same job and the same XY positions, I made a full blown VM with all necessary programs which does the 4-step clicking through for me using AHK and Node and sends me the .nc file back. It’s overkill, but it works in production (literally)
If you could, this would be absolutely awesome and as a little “Thanks” I would buy it right away. This would save me a lot of hassle and time!
Just as a curiosity, the running VM on my work PC consumes about 4GB alone, so you can imagine haha
And when it’s down, oh boy, do I hear screams.
Amazing! Can’t wait to see that in the future.
I know these are not optimal, but yes, we are aware and are working to better support Single Line Fonts as @adammhaile expressed.
hi Rick
it’s great to hear you guys are looking into single line fonts as a possible new feature.
this alone would justify next years’ subscription.
thank you.
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