Nice tutorial and thanks for the download. Very creative. A couple of things that I do...just my preference, that might make your design process a little easier. When I want to group/ungroup I select the image and then right click. The menu that comes up allows you to group/ungroup without having to go all the way to the top of LB. Also, I noticed that you were using your mouse by hand to do fine movements in lining up for the Boolean function. If you select something and then use the Ctrl + Shift HOLD and then use the arrow keys it will move your image in smaller increments allowing you to place it where you want just a little easier.
Awesome! Thanks for the tips. I usually use the hotkeys for Group (Ctrl + G) and UnGroup (Ctrl + U) but I thought the video would be better as an instructional video if I waited until later videos to introduce hotkeys. That being said I didn't know about the Ctrl + Shift HOLD for the adjustments I'll use that from now on.
I love that you include that little extra piece on top for the twine or ribbon! Absolutely incredible project today!! Thank you so much! I would love to see other holiday projects besides ornaments. Like a box or cutting board or game board of some kind. Thank you so so much! ❤
Really nice work, dude. I wish that you would do something that so many people fail to do on UA-cam. Provide a really nice beauty shot of the product at the end that allows us to see exactly what the final product looks like, close up, and with all of its detail. Thank you.
Thanks! Great suggestion I find I often get excited toward the end of the process and I'll remember to take more staged photos of the product! Keep the ideas coming!
Love it, thank you! Would love seeing more in the structure you have set up, could bring in alittle bit of the finishing process too. I am trying one but my snowflakes only have six points I guess and can not get to the point where I have three points touching the circles. Think it will be as issue?
Thank you so much for watching! Your snowflake shouldn't have an issue if it isn't too thin. I suggest you cut a small piece of cardboard and use that to make a "practice" cut so you don't waste your material. That's what I do with all of my left-over Amazon boxes 😂.
Nice design. While you are dragging your elements around, if you hold CTRL while dragging, it will not snap to points. Makes it easy to fine tune while dragging. Great work on your videos.
New subscriber, I like that you're including the onscreen keyboard. As for future videos, my request would be more entry level lightburn instructions. Nice that your doing Christmas stuff now, gives people time to practice and still have time to make items. Also like that you're including canva as well. Thanks for sharing...
@@wilmerwoodworks No, I'm pretty new, I'm just enjoying what you've done so far, I think maybe going into detail on layers, tool/fill/cut, and maybe how to save different settings and getting back to those settings would be helpful, but Im happy just following along :)
Hi Brilliant tutorial. I have been trying to cut a number from a frosted background, but every tutorial I watch, it doesn’t work when I try it. It’s just a frosted square background 12 in x 12in then a number 50 in the centre not frosted. If you could help,I would really appreciate it.👍👍👍😍
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you liked the tutorial. I think I understand your issue but if you could send me an email with the files you are working with or screenshots of the issue I will try to put together a quick video for you. You can find my e-mail address in the video description.
New subscriber! Just came across your channel the other day and you do a lot of the same kind of projects. I enjoy doing. Really enjoy seeing your take on things keep up the excellent work.
I'm planning on getting the Xtool s1 in the next month or so and know I will need lightburn tutorials so I subscribed for later. :) P.S. Years ago I had a CNC router machine that came with inexpensive pro or a free version software that was simple to use. To do the really cool stuff you needed the aftermarket very expensive software (don't remember the name) but OMG it was like trying to figure out how to fly the friggin space shuttle. Hoping Lightburn is not that ridiculous.
That's awesome to hear you're getting the Xtool s1! Lightburn tutorials will definitely help you get the hang of things-it's much more user-friendly than those complicated software programs! What CNC did you have? I had one of the CarveWright machines when it came out and it was a NIGHTMARE!
@@wilmerwoodworks I had the X-carve back in 2018 or so. I was doing mostly carves on expensive hardwood and it was very easy to ruin a piece for half a dozen different reasons including even a brief power outage. It was very frustrating. Anyway, laser cutting and engraving looks much more reliable with exponentially more possibilities.
There is NO WAY I would be able to cut that on my laser. All that little stuff would just burn up. Curious as to what wood you used. Great instruction.
You can definitely cut it on your laser as long as it's a 10w or higher. The key to getting a clean cut is to have the air assist on (if you don't have it you might be able to add it) and to cut on a honeycomb bed. What type of laser do you have? The wood I used is just basswood 12x12 sheets I found on Amazon - amzn.to/3XRHooO
This is great, thank you! I'd like to know how to change the cut settings for just part of an element. For example, around 11:30 you talked about the Boolean Union. Is there a way to change the edge of the snowflake to a score line while the rest of the snowflake does what the Boolean Union did? I can email you an example if that helps, it is hard to explain.
Great question! I think I understand your question but if you could send me an email. I'll take a look! My email should be at the bottom of the video description!
Here is how I would do that: Before making the union, make a copy of the elements you want to score (or fill). Put them on another layer. Set the appropriate properties for that layer - score or fill. Go back to the original parts and perform the union. You may want/need to toggle the visibility of score layer to make it easier. You MUST keep these layers all aligned. My thought on this video was that scoring the full shapes of the circle of snowflakes would look good. The problem would be where the snowflakes overlap with each other width-wise, To address this, I would change the order of what was done in the video. I would do a union of all the snowflakes before their union with the rings. Copy the merged snowflakes and make a score layer from that. Then go back and merge the rings with original snowflake-ring, all of which would be a cut layer. After these operations, you would have have a one cut layer with the union of the ring and snowflake ring, plus one score layer of just the snowflake ring. If you want the name bar, that would be added to the union of the ring and snowflake ring. The name could either be part of the scored snowflake ring, or, what I would do is add a third layer that is the name, scored or filled. As in the video, the last step would be to add the hanger.
Thank you! I really appreciate your clear directions on using Lightburn! With tutorials like this I may just subscribe to LB now! Please keep the tutorials coming.
Thanks I know I have other projects in the works, Cutting boards, etc... but I'm sure I'll make some more tutorials of the projects I'm building for my upcoming craft show!
Nice tutorial and thanks for the download. Very creative. A couple of things that I do...just my preference, that might make your design process a little easier. When I want to group/ungroup I select the image and then right click. The menu that comes up allows you to group/ungroup without having to go all the way to the top of LB. Also, I noticed that you were using your mouse by hand to do fine movements in lining up for the Boolean function. If you select something and then use the Ctrl + Shift HOLD and then use the arrow keys it will move your image in smaller increments allowing you to place it where you want just a little easier.
Awesome! Thanks for the tips. I usually use the hotkeys for Group (Ctrl + G) and UnGroup (Ctrl + U) but I thought the video would be better as an instructional video if I waited until later videos to introduce hotkeys.
That being said I didn't know about the Ctrl + Shift HOLD for the adjustments I'll use that from now on.
I love that you include that little extra piece on top for the twine or ribbon! Absolutely incredible project today!! Thank you so much! I would love to see other holiday projects besides ornaments. Like a box or cutting board or game board of some kind. Thank you so so much! ❤
Great suggestions!!! I have a board idea 💡 that I think 🤔 might be neat.
Really nice work, dude. I wish that you would do something that so many people fail to do on UA-cam. Provide a really nice beauty shot of the product at the end that allows us to see exactly what the final product looks like, close up, and with all of its detail. Thank you.
Thanks! Great suggestion I find I often get excited toward the end of the process and I'll remember to take more staged photos of the product! Keep the ideas coming!
I like this. Let's have more of these. I just got LightBurn am learning it.
Awesome! I'm glad this video helped you. Would you like to see more ornaments or other projects?
Nice work ! Thanks for the tutorial and sharing
Thank you! Cheers!
very good video and extremely helpful thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.
Great video. Just a heads up in case you're an Amazon affliate; your basswood link in the description is pointing at the laser and not the basswood.
😱 thanks 🙏 for the heads up 👍
Love it, thank you! Would love seeing more in the structure you have set up, could bring in alittle bit of the finishing process too. I am trying one but my snowflakes only have six points I guess and can not get to the point where I have three points touching the circles. Think it will be as issue?
Thank you so much for watching! Your snowflake shouldn't have an issue if it isn't too thin. I suggest you cut a small piece of cardboard and use that to make a "practice" cut so you don't waste your material. That's what I do with all of my left-over Amazon boxes 😂.
Nice design. While you are dragging your elements around, if you hold CTRL while dragging, it will not snap to points. Makes it easy to fine tune while dragging. Great work on your videos.
Thanks for the tip!
WOOHOO! I was your 1,000th Subscriber! Congratulations! Your last two ornament videos are what got me. Your instruction is excellent.
OMG! I was watching and refreshing my screen when it was at 999! Thank you so much for subscribing!
New subscriber, I like that you're including the onscreen keyboard. As for future videos, my request would be more entry level lightburn instructions. Nice that your doing Christmas stuff now, gives people time to practice and still have time to make items. Also like that you're including canva as well. Thanks for sharing...
Thanks for the sub! I will put something together is there a feature or project you have in mind?
@@wilmerwoodworks No, I'm pretty new, I'm just enjoying what you've done so far, I think maybe going into detail on layers, tool/fill/cut, and maybe how to save different settings and getting back to those settings would be helpful, but Im happy just following along :)
Hi Brilliant tutorial. I have been trying to cut a number from a frosted background, but every tutorial I watch, it doesn’t work when I try it. It’s just a frosted square background
12 in x 12in then a number 50 in the centre not frosted. If you could help,I would really appreciate it.👍👍👍😍
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you liked the tutorial. I think I understand your issue but if you could send me an email with the files you are working with or screenshots of the issue I will try to put together a quick video for you. You can find my e-mail address in the video description.
Looks beautiful, Steve! Thanks for the download!
Thanks I'm glad you like it! I'll have more designs soon. Any suggestions?
New subscriber! Just came across your channel the other day and you do a lot of the same kind of projects. I enjoy doing. Really enjoy seeing your take on things keep up the excellent work.
Awesome! Thank you!
hold control when resizing and the selected element will stay centered
Good to know 👍
Would like to see a video on cut and print, like your sight keep up good work
This is a great suggestion! It could be very helpful since I think a lot of people don't even know about that feature!
I'm planning on getting the Xtool s1 in the next month or so and know I will need lightburn tutorials so I subscribed for later. :) P.S. Years ago I had a CNC router machine that came with inexpensive pro or a free version software that was simple to use. To do the really cool stuff you needed the aftermarket very expensive software (don't remember the name) but OMG it was like trying to figure out how to fly the friggin space shuttle. Hoping Lightburn is not that ridiculous.
That's awesome to hear you're getting the Xtool s1! Lightburn tutorials will definitely help you get the hang of things-it's much more user-friendly than those complicated software programs! What CNC did you have? I had one of the CarveWright machines when it came out and it was a NIGHTMARE!
@@wilmerwoodworks I had the X-carve back in 2018 or so. I was doing mostly carves on expensive hardwood and it was very easy to ruin a piece for half a dozen different reasons including even a brief power outage. It was very frustrating. Anyway, laser cutting and engraving looks much more reliable with exponentially more possibilities.
There is NO WAY I would be able to cut that on my laser. All that little stuff would just burn up. Curious as to what wood you used.
Great instruction.
You can definitely cut it on your laser as long as it's a 10w or higher. The key to getting a clean cut is to have the air assist on (if you don't have it you might be able to add it) and to cut on a honeycomb bed. What type of laser do you have? The wood I used is just basswood 12x12 sheets I found on Amazon - amzn.to/3XRHooO
Try decreasing power and/or increasing speed. You could also try lower power and speed and making 2 passes.
The keyboard on the screen is genius!!
Just trying to be a little better with every video 👍
What did you use to put that there?
I used OBS
This is great, thank you! I'd like to know how to change the cut settings for just part of an element. For example, around 11:30 you talked about the Boolean Union. Is there a way to change the edge of the snowflake to a score line while the rest of the snowflake does what the Boolean Union did? I can email you an example if that helps, it is hard to explain.
Great question! I think I understand your question but if you could send me an email. I'll take a look! My email should be at the bottom of the video description!
Here is how I would do that: Before making the union, make a copy of the elements you want to score (or fill). Put them on another layer. Set the appropriate properties for that layer - score or fill. Go back to the original parts and perform the union. You may want/need to toggle the visibility of score layer to make it easier. You MUST keep these layers all aligned.
My thought on this video was that scoring the full shapes of the circle of snowflakes would look good. The problem would be where the snowflakes overlap with each other width-wise, To address this, I would change the order of what was done in the video. I would do a union of all the snowflakes before their union with the rings. Copy the merged snowflakes and make a score layer from that. Then go back and merge the rings with original snowflake-ring, all of which would be a cut layer. After these operations, you would have have a one cut layer with the union of the ring and snowflake ring, plus one score layer of just the snowflake ring. If you want the name bar, that would be added to the union of the ring and snowflake ring. The name could either be part of the scored snowflake ring, or, what I would do is add a third layer that is the name, scored or filled. As in the video, the last step would be to add the hanger.
Unrelated - not to be greedy, but would you consider putting the wreath & bow version up, too?
Good stuff!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Great snowflake.. I thought it was so very informative! Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the video.
Now I know what I will do for my collegues for christmas :)
NICE!
Thanks Steve, great tutorial. I'm just learning and you explain everything so I can understand.
Thanks for watching and I'm happy to hear it helped!
Thank you! I really appreciate your clear directions on using Lightburn! With tutorials like this I may just subscribe to LB now! Please keep the tutorials coming.
Thanks I know I have other projects in the works, Cutting boards, etc... but I'm sure I'll make some more tutorials of the projects I'm building for my upcoming craft show!
I really found this helpful. I am ready to watch all your videos. Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome! I'll have new videos soon. Any techniques you think would be worth demonstrating?
if you would have done it as a virtual array you would only have to select 1 of the elements
I didn’t know you could do a virtual circular array. I know you can with a grid array. Where do you find virtual circular array option?
Amazing tutorial - well done
Thanks, glad you liked it!
This was awesome! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
More videos
Will do!
Great Art!
Thanks I'm glad you like it!