Is there a way to keep the kerf settings on a file? When I move to the laser computer, the kerf is different than how I created. Very frustrating to run a file and realize the kerf is different from how you created it!
The kerf settings are part of the Cut settings for that layer. They should be preserved in the .lbrn file.
Are you saying that when transferring a .lbrn file between computers that the kerf settings are not retained?
If so, that’s highly unusual.
Do you have a .lbrn file where this is occurring that you can upload? What is the kerf that you expect and what is the kerf that you’re getting on the other computer?
That’s what I thought. I can’t upload the file, but I set it to .004 on the file, saved it, and then went to the other computer. All other setting were right but the keft was .110. I’ve had had this happen on other files as well.
Are you certain you’re using the same display units on both computers?
.004 inch would be roughly equal to .110 mm. That could account for the difference.
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thank you! I blame it on being Canadian 
Among English speaking countries it seems to me that Australia has done the most complete and admirable job in adoption and proper usage of metric. Canadians have done more than the US in its degree of metrification but has left many things in a limbo combined state. The US has a two tier/class system where science and engineering are largely done in metric but manufacturing and every day usage cling to “standard” units. The amount of money wasted and the number of accidents caused due to errors in conversion is staggering.
3D printing is almost exclusively metric. I suspect lasering is more accommodating to imperial units due to its proximity to the manufacturing world. Having one system would certainly simplify things, however.
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I have to agree…
Four decades ago, in high school they promised we’d be metric in a few years… 
I can understand a monarchy, but to base a unit of measure on someones foot is pretty nuts… not to mention he must have had 12 toes to break it up into inches that way…
In Lightburn you can enter 1/16, but most software you have to figure out the decimal value for it.
I do almost everything in metric… include building on the home… It makes so much more sense to me… my only problem in the US is finding tape measures that have metric markings on them.
But when NASA and Lockheed Martin mixed up units for the Mars Climate Orbiter, it led to the loss of a $327 million mission to Mars.
So he didn’t too bad with his mistake, it could have been much worse… 
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