Even faster burns- using flood fill in lightburn
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Flood fill is a great tool for those graphics with lots of open area. Gerald Lamothe recommended I try this setting and I did. Here are the results. Thanks to everyone for all of the great information. I will try to pass it on.
Sorry for cutting out the location of flood fill. It is under the advanced tab on the power settings of each layer.
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4:45 you said it. It would be nice to be able to rename the functions so each person could understand them. Also, it sounds like the software in lacking. It should be written to do the job the fastest way, given the parameters, by default. Guinea hens, another creature where the creator was hung over when it made it.
Software is good. Some of the terminology gets me though..
Floodfill can be found in the advanced settings of each layer. But if "beginner mode" is activated in Lightburn settings, you'll never find it!!
I was unaware of the fact that it could be hidden. I skipped the beginner mode...lol
I was wondering why this wasn’t in the video lol
The one thing he forgot to mention..where to find it lol
Please if you are going to talk about something show us where the link is you are talking about. Are you talking offset fill or flood fill? I guess there could have been a name change in lightburn since it was a while ago. Great videos, thanks.
Should be in the video. It is just a switch..
Great video David, and I am glad for helping you out, and like you I also have OCD...The only problem with your demonstration is that you forgot to show where to find floodfill...Loll...They'll figure it out...Cheers!
Yep
Lol… must have trimmed it out….my bad… it’s in advanced tab under the cut tab.
I added an info card and short video to fix that issue. I had to redo due to audio issues and forgot to mention. Thanks..
You are so helpful to me! At 73 I start laser cutting! Thank you for sharing!
Glad it helps. It is fun at any age in my opinion… enjoy
Thanks for showing me about flood fill, I learned something very useful today. You could also use offset fill for stuff like this as well- it's really good for borders and thin edges like when burning a map onto a coaster or those layered maps with a lot of engraved roads. Offset fill turned a 5 hour burn into a 1 hour burn when I was making a gift for my Brother- a layered map that was about 16x16 Inches- turned out great! This is definitely going to help in the future. I love lightburn!
Offset fill makes some burns longer. I suggest trying several settings or removing white space.
I really like your videos but the sound when you are screensharing is shocking.. I find myself skipping past the screenshre vidoes now.
Those were when I was working out the mic settings... it is better now.
I Definitely started splitting my artwork up too. Saves allot of time!!!
Yes it does!
@@TheClackShack I wrote Ramirez in Script it said 1 Hr 15 min. I was like WTF!!!
thats a terrible video
Thanks
I have been looking for this type of video endlessly! People just kept playing with speeds and lines per inch but this flood fill is exactly what I wanted for a mass production order of picture frames that I have! TY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are a few ways to make things run faster. Glad it helps.
I can’t find a video like this for 1.3.01, I don’t see this option anywhere.
It may not have existed in 1.3
It is 1.4 now
Lol, great video without actually showing the tip, all good I found it in the comments
Not everyone gets it I guess
Thanks so much for doing this video and the follow up on it it saved me over an hour on my cutting boards!!!
Glad to help. It was a real time saver for me as well.
You’ve got a great style. I always learn a lot when from your videos. Thanks for your time and good work.
Thanks…
I found it from a comment below. It's in the Advanced settings. thanks
Cool, thanks
Thanks for the video, however you did not show how to turn on flood fill.
It is in layer settings with speed and power
How do you turn on Flood Fill
I don't have the flood fill button
glad you got it
Do you mean Offset Fill? Never heard of floodfill.
No, it is flood fill
Great video, thanks for the information!
Glad it was helpful!
Have you ever used offset fill?
Haven't, I have been sticking to the basics and slowly learning the tricks.
@@TheClackShack I haven't used it a lot but it filles inside the lines much like you described flood fill and does away with the white space. It makes it much faster.
Just out of curiosity, I noticed all your layers shown except C00 have Air Assist sliders green/turned on.
Do you have Air Assist on M7 or M8 controlling your Air Assist Pump? Maybe hooked up with a 24V to 110Vac Solid State Relay (aka SSR)?
I’m planning to do some Pin Diagnostics of the Comgrow and OMTech Controller Boards to see of either have a Hardware Pin controlled by the LB software switches and Machine Settings where you tell LB, via mutually exclusive radio buttons, which Grbl Mx-command (labeled M7/M8) your Controller uses to turn on Air Assist auto-magically.
That way when, in your case, C00 is being Cut/Engraved/Burned, Air Assist would be turned OFF and for the other Layers, it would be turned ON…all auto-magically without you having to flip a physical switch.
I’ve seen reviews of Ortur Engravers that have that feature supported.
I do not have a relay, I have looked into it and would like to add it but haven't yet.
Another wonderful video, David! Since you mentioned maintenance, I want to make a request. In one of your videos, you pulled out a small tube of "goop" from the shelf above your D1 and squirted a bit onto your finger to lubricate the moving parts. I've been wondering...
What is that stuff?
Do you know where we could get either that exact stuff or something similar?
Thanks!
That is the grease that came with my machine. It appears to be standard lithium grease. It is similar to what you can use on firearms.
Thanks again for sharing what you know. Since I haven't received my laser yet, I am focused on the bee videos for now. So intriguing, those bees.
Maybe when you get it, you will have it figured out. You can designs stuff while you wait.. You are very welcome
Great series of videos. One thing I found was when I go back to roller parts I need to remember to turn off flood. Then it will progress evenly in one direction like a line printer and for odd shaped items you don't have to worry about a back and forth rotation throwing the part askew. I googled flood fill and now it makes sense. Think of the game minesweeper when the software is trying to figure out the moves. It's basically the name of the algorithm.
Yea, it only takes a few times to remember to check it... been there
What if you got a graphic in the middle
Use a different layer for it
I have 6 layer and was tryna speed up the time for a 6 by 6 print but take forever
Dave… yesterday I set up a template to engrave 6 - 4” slate coasters. The design had the outline of an Island that nearly filled 3-1/2”, a compass rose, a ferry and a light house. Also, with some text. In normal fill (22mm/s and 50% power) it took 5 hrs, 59 min and 39 sec (preview values).
Really a long time. In preview, it started at the bottom and laser’s 15” from left to right in both directions with a significant amount of time just traveling.
If I change to flood fill, the time goes down to 1 hour 33 min 47 seconds. Tremendous reduction in time. However, if you use off-set fill the time goes down to 45 min 13 seconds. What I haven’t tried to determine is if any quality is lost using either flood fill or off-set fill. Could not find much of anything on the forums that discussed those two options. Might make a good video. Keep up the great videos you are making. So helpful. Cheers!
I may set something up and try it. At least the settings did help.
Be interested to see what you find. I did a test on a compass rose using offset fill and flood fill with same laser settings. Minor difference from my test with offset fill being slightly more accurate and ran in nearly half the time as flood fill. I think that will be my go to from now on.
Nice to see that you tried the flood fill I suggested
I had a few folks suggest it. Definitely a good idea. Thanks
Thanks, where do you get all the graphics in your art library?
Some are customer logos, free clip art that I modify, buy on Etsy, make from scratch, adobe stock and some are just a combination of several images.
Glad you figured that part out , you'll see it'll help you out on your stove topper engravings as well
It made a difference on the burn time for sure.
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How do you make it flood fill!
My bad, I must have trimmed it out of the video. It is under the advanced tab in the burn tab where you set the power and speed.
Open the Fill settings and click on the advanced tab. It will be a switch near the bottom. Playing with the settings, it seems like offset fill may be a better choice.
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