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A question about LightBurn Behavior

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2023-03-08

A question about LightBurn behavior. I made a “coin” that I am going to use as a sort of business card. I got the idea from The Louisiana Hobby Guy video. It cuts out the empty space in the coin and the text is what remains. I’m using the settings below.

 

I created a virtual array of 32 coins. When I first started burning, the laser swept across the material burning (what seemed like) a row of dots at a time. As it got above a row of coins, it seemed to be moving over the space between coin rows as if it was burning something.

 

I remembered reading about Flood Fill, so I stopped it. Checked off flood fill in the advanced tab, then started over. This time it seemed like it was doing one coin at a time. It has been running for a long time. Would it have been better if I did not flood fill? It s working fine, I am just curious about the best way to do this. Thanks!

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    • Miller

      2023-03-09
      Instead of using Flood Fill, this is looks like a good case for using ‘Fill groups together’, and making sure the graphics of your individual coins are grouped together. Flood Fill may behave similarly to ‘Fill Groups Individually’ in this case, but may also jump around a bit more - that brings a risk of gaps/misalignment if your machine isn’t well tuned.
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