💡Creating slots & tabs in Lightburn, from scratch, THE EASY WAY!
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Genius! You are the absolute GOAT for laser related content.
Catch some much needed rest though. Be well.
Thanks, will do!
I"ve only been using a laser engraver and lightburn about 4 months. I can easily say your videos have been the best. Keep up the great work! Get well!
Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching!
Hi Rich, praying for your good health, thanks for all your effort, for the community
Thanks so much! 👍
Wow! Great explanation! Thanks a lot for the video, I learned so much 👍😊 Because my native language is german I often have troubles understanding english speaking people. But you do speak so clearly that I understand all what you say. Of course, I subscribed your channel!
Glad it was helpful Rudolf! Thanks for the sub! 👍
Get well soon 🙏
Thanks TC, I'm trying!
thank you for your time making these videos . wife an I are truly noobs here with are Falcon 2 20watt laser , keep making the videos .
Glad you like them Darryl!
*This is the easiest way I have found to do tabs & slots. I haven't seen anyone else use this method.*
I did this for a display about 3 weeks ago and it worked pretty good but I had a bit too much gap so it didn’t grip perfectly but I did a .03 slot and .00 tab. And my tab wasn’t quite the right depth but I was ok with that because it was under the full depth of the wood I was using.
Rich i Wish U Bet Well soon and came Back health and strong. Thank U vor all what U have done vor US beginners and the Others ;) i Like the Style how U do Ur Videos . And i learn and learn and learn at the age of 43 😉 thank U from the bottom of my Heart realy
Glad you liked it!
Your are just to good. I spent 5 hours yesterday and never got anywhere until finding this video. Thanks a million.
Glad I could help Pat!
First and foremost, praying for good health and clearance from the doc for you! Thank you so much for making this lightburn journey so enjoyable! It’s still not second nature, but I am feeling a lot more comfortable, thanks to your videos!
Thanks! All cleared and ready for takeoff! 👍
Another common sense video by making the complex simple. Thanks Rich.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for everything Rich. Hope you get sorted health wise and are back to full health very soon.
Thanks so much Ian!
Hi Rich, I'm excited to say I have ordered a Roly Lasermatic10 from Leo based on your videos. I let Leo know where I was referred, and he of course said Rich has been where many of his orders have come from ! It's on the way, however it's been stuck in customs in Chicago for the past three days. Leo is on it, but it is somewhat concerning considering how our government agencies work these days. Hopefully it will get out of customs inspection soon, as I can not wait to start using the machine...(Very giddy) ;-)....Anyway I have been learning so much from your channel, thank you for all that you do ! Cheers from Mark in Utah ! (Oh btw, I did enter your raffle hoping to get really lucky ! LOL......UPDATE to my post, I just got notice from Fed Ex that the issues are resolved ! My machine is to be delivered tomorrow ! I guess Leo was on it, I'm very excited for this package.😁 Cheers !
Awesome! Congrats! And yes, the support for the LaserMATIC is the best there is!
Rich, stay safe from Hurricane Idalia! I imagine unless you live in very eastern Louisiana, you might not even get rain, but with hurricanes, you never know! We're in central Florida, so we should be ok
I am in South East LA, but rain is normal for us here! We've had some major storms in the last 2 days, but we needed it Eric! After a month of triple digit temps and not a cloud in the sky, it's a huge relief!
Hi Rich sorry did not realise you were suffering too. Here’s to feeling better. I fully understand your regime as we discussed before. Keep smiling lots love from the UK
Thank you so much @Edwinpbennett! I really appreciate it! 👍
SIr,would be great if would make a video on how to resize a file (both thickness wise and size wise)brought online.Thank you🙏
Unless you bought from my online laser graphics store, you got regular graphics not designed for a laser. Fixing Etsy files is always a nightmare.
Another great video from you. I always get a wow experience when I watch your videos. ;-) Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much Kurt!🙏
Thanks Rich, new to all this but you make it look so simple, get healthy, cheers 👍
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! 👍
looked at a few people explaining this, but yours was the most understandable, thanks you, and hope your getting better :)
Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching Graham!
Thank you for your time, Easy to under stand. Here's to Good Health for you.
Thank you so much @patpliley5535! I really appreciate it! 👍
I still come back to this video after a few years. I can make everything work until it comes to the 542 segment. I don't see to make it automatically to center. Great video, you are the best teacher for all the years I been doing laser, (which is only 4 years)
Go to the Gear icon Joe, Units and Grids tab --> Grid Snap Distance. I have mine set to 1.
I hope you are on the Mend! You are a wonderful person for sharing your knowledge with others. Short and to the point with explanations as to why😀🛫
Thank you so much!
Just what I needed to learn. Thanks fella.
Get well!
Thanks, you too!
Thank you so much for your time and help, you have been my teacher from the beginning. Take care of yourself and God bless you and your Family.
So nice of you!
I wish you well, Rich. Thanks so much for all the help you provide. As a newb, you are really a blessing to me.
I appreciate that!
Hi Rick hope your health is getting better just tried you way I Tried another way if you duplicate the taps you can select one box and do the tap and then grab the other box and do the slots without having to try and line them up
That's what I do, but this was an instructional video, so I wanted to repeat the steps.
Praying for your speedy recovery Rich
Thank you so much!
Hello Rich. It's great to see you again and doing well. I've missed you all on Saturday, my hours are not favourable for staying and watching you guys performing arts. I love this video , just what I need to learn. Every video of yours is full of great tips and very informative. Thank you for doing it even though you are on a doctor watch list. Stay well Sir, we need you.
Thanks a lot! You can always watch the replay on the Laser Makers Realm!
Thank you for the tutorial. Clear and straight to the point.
Thanks for watching Sabrina!
Rich, I want to thank you for what you do. I can actually use the laser I just bought thanks to your lightburn tutorials. You’ve been a huge blessing. God Bless you and keep up the good work.
Glad to help!
Just watched again to refresh my knowledge and try to make sure I am using the most efficient way to make slots and tabs. Great having these references.
Your videos rock Rob, keep it up!
Oh my god, AAAAAmazing, Thank you so much!!!! New with a new diode laser and im so grateful to you.x
Glad I could help Tamara! Welcome to the obsession! 🤪
Great job, may be Santa will bring me a laser printer for Christmas!!
That would be cool!
Get well soon and take it easy, ya sure. You are taking it easy. That's the only way to do it is do something you enjoy doin. Thanks.
Very true!
Rich, may I ask what they found with the heart monitor you wore. I’m a heart patient as well. I have a pacemaker and to make matters wore a paralyzed right diaphragm. I had to go to Emory University to have surgery to fix that. Please take care of yourself. I like watching your videos as well as all of your followers. We need you around, the laser community needs you around. You are loved my friend
Thanks Steve, but I'm going to keep that private for now.
Good stuff as usual. Hooking some friends up to your channel who are also new to Lightburn and lasers.
Awesome, thank you!
Great Video ! Thank You for YOUR time to make the video and Please get well.
Thank you, I will! 👍
Good to see you are at least up and about. And just wow that is defintly an easy way to make boxes. I havent tried making one yet, coz the tabs an slots had me, but now after wating your video, I am going to go ahead and give it a shot. Thanks Rich.
Glad to hear it Ian! I will probably do a follow up on this, start to finish.
Another great video Rich thank you, good health
Thank you Goerge!
Great little tutorial Rich. Hope you get better soon. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you, I'm working on it! Heading to the Heart Clinic right now!
Hi Rich, thank you very much for all these "rich" videos. They really help me to understand ‘LightBurn’. I plan to order a Creality Falcon 2 Pro very soon. In your explanation of ‘kerf’ management, you used an example of a kerf of 0.01mm !!! Isn't it more like 0.1, because in the example of this laser engraver, the spot size is 0.08 x 0.1. Am I right, or am I still missing something?
Yes, 0.1 is correct, sorry. Get the LaserMATIC over the Creality, hands down a superior machine!
Good job Rich and thanks! Get better soon!
Thanks so much!
Thank you Rich for another informative video. Praying for good health for you.
Much appreciated Mike!
Thanks very much Rich! Get well soon!
Thank you, I will!
Another excellent instructional Rich. What would be really helpful would be a demo on how to evenly space the tabs and slots along the box side when adding multiples on each side. Thanks Rich
Well Steve, that's what the Visual Grid Spacing and Snap distance was for! With a little simple math, you can setup your own divisible by the size and amount of tabs you want. I'll do a follow up doing an entire box soon, but this was simply the basics.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy I was thinking more along the lines of the array tool. I thought there was a way to select all objects along a line and have them equally spaced along the line with a click of the mouse - no math involved.
As always simple and to the point.......unfortunately I could not get the slots and tabs to form without using the boolean feature.....still working on how you select and subtract without using the shift key
Follow the video in your software to replicate exactly what I do.
Fantastic .get well soon
Thanks so much for the support Wizard! 👍
Now I've seen this, guess what I'll be doing this afternoon. Thanks again Rich for a very useful video. Get well soon.
Making a box? 🤪 You asked me to guess!
Posted before finding out your sick. Feel better.
SW is for complex box shapes.
Group sells a kerf tool you mount on laser
Never seen it. I use the old fashioned method with a line and a crack ruler.
Rich, thanks for a great walkthrough. We’re all pulling for you and hope things resolve soon.
Much appreciated!
Great tutorial. When I cut my boxes I set my kerf offset to +0.04 (half of the kerf width) so the laser will cut the outside of the line instead of down the middle of the line. That way the joints are nice and tight. If you run with the kerf offset at 0.0 your joints will be sloppy by twice the thickness of your laser kerf. That way you don't have to figure in the kerf thickness when you design the box. Other than that, the way you design them beats the heck out of the way I've been doing it.
Prayers for a speedy recovery.
Thanks, much appreciated!
Thank you for the video Rich. I hope you get well soon!!
Much appreciated!
Thanks Rich! Get well soon!!
Thanks I am!
Thank you!
You're tutorials are the best
Cheers from 🇦🇺
You're very welcome!
Thank you for the video, very helpful. I wish you a speedy recovery!
Thank you Heidi!
Great video👍thanks for explaining this in the easiest of steps. 🙏 wishing you well from over the pond
Thanks so much David! 👍
I was making my slots and tabs by making exact sized boxes and docking them then using the Booleans to weld for tabs or subtract for slots. Your way is much easier, thank you.
Thanks Mark! And yes, that's probably how most people do it. I look for shortcuts!
Very straightforward. Thank you. And I hope you get well soon!!
Thanks so much!
Hi Rich Please take care, and God bless you.
Thank you kindly!
Thank you sir! This is a great tutorial
BTW, God bless - Hope you are doing well.
Glad it was helpful!
TY!
Say Rich, great piece. I now understand the basic fundamental. Could you do a Phase II? Show how to do multipal tabs/slots, so the work out evenly across a dimention? Thanks
It's on my list!
Rich,
I love your channel. You have so much to offer. Thank You! I do have one question however. Don’t you have to account for kerf along the long axis on those slots, to ensure a good fit? I am very new at this I honestly would like to know.
Yes you do. I usually just split the difference between the two.
Thanks!
No problem! Thanks so much for the support @GeraldJensen
Another great and informative video Rich, as always. Wishing you well.🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Great tip Rich. Get well soon.
Thank you!
Thanks so much!
Thanks!
Wow! Thank you so much! I appreciate the support! 👍
I teach the guys at the Men's Shed to use Lightburn. I haven't tried this but I think I see two problems. Will the tabs have slop because the kerf is on the wrong side of the slots. The size will be 100x100 internally. Both easily fixed.
You add the kerf of your particular laser to the tabs after running a kerf test on the material, just like any other tabbed project.
You are absolutely right- the kerf adjustment needs to be on the width, not the height. The height does not need compensation- the kerf comes of both the body and the tab.
What would be a good first 3D print machine that could print some large items when needed? Like sections of an RC plane fuselage.
I'm probably not the person to ask Charles. I don't want to give you bad advice. Try Jerry at 3DHP.
You seem to be in good spirits. I've been there myself (tied to an IV for about a year) and working on my hobbies while convalescing definitely help keep my spirits up, outlook positive, and mind occupied on things other than how bad I felt. Thank you, keep it up, and get well soon!
Thanks so much! The hobby keeps me happy!
Hi Rich hope you get well soon as your videos are ago to for me & I’ll be waiting for the next video
Thanks so much, I appreciate that!
A joy to watch
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! 👍
Thanks Rich. pray for your good heath, stay chill bos.
I appreciate it, thanks!
Thank you for the video Rich, sure hope get feeling better, really appreciate all your help!
My pleasure!
Great again as always. Thanks.
Thanks again!
Hopefully by now you are all healed and back to work. Very good video, Sir. Very good. However I do have a few questions. I know this video is over a year old but I hope to get an answer.
I followed your example step by step: Problem: I set it all up as directed but when I get the Cross arrow in the center of the box, it does not snap to the grid. It does work on the corners, but I'd rather it be in the center. If I move the curser off the center slightly it does change to a line with a circle, but it doesn't move anything.
Am I doing something wrong? Thank you
Check your Snap to settings in Gear icon, units and grids.
Thanks for such great videos! I’m learning, slowly but steadily improving
Great to hear Darrell!
Great info...as usual.!
Glad you liked it Bill!
nicely explained im completely new to lasering at the age of 62 do you have any videos for complete beginners
Yeah, search for the number 101 on the channel. You'll find Lightburn 101.
Hi Rich. A very clear and useful tutorial. Many thanks. One question, though: In the case of a 100X100 base for a box, do two of the sides not have to be 106 (with material thickness of 3 as in your example) ? Emanuel
Yes, that happens when you add the tabs, they become 106.2, jut like the top.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy ...and that will not work. For a 100mm (say) cube, then the maximum dimension of all parts (in both directions) needs to be 100mm. More than that would exceed the 100mm size. (Every edge is alternating 'tab' and 'slot'. Tab to tab is 100mm, slot to slot is 94mm.)
Get better soon!!!!!!!!!
Feeling much better now Patrick, thanks!
Great video Rich. You make it looks so easy. Good health to you.
Thank you Nick!
Another great video,clear and easy to follow.
A question though. Don’t most diode lasers have a kerf closer to 0.1mm rather than 0.01?
Thanks for the many awesome videos.
Yes, absolutely, I may have misspoke... I do that a lot! 🤪
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy The fact that you occasionally misspeak, like we all do, but don't edit those statements out is one reason why we love your videos. It gives many of us more confidence to try things and see what happens. And if we make a little miss step here or there we know, based on your examples, we can always learn from it.
Again than you for all the wonderful videos, You have taught so many of us so much! 😀
Glad you like them! I keep the mistakes in because some folks might make the same ones!
I use FreeCAD which has a special add on for these. I’ve made hundreds of boxes and they are perfect every time. I export them as DXF files (I think) and import them into Lightburn. It is just a matter of arranging the parts to where I want them and then and cut.
Cool, this was a Lightburn tutorial. I can make very complicated boxes in minutes in Lightburn.
Thank you Rich for another great video. You've made making tabs and slots a dream. Although, I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed that the Bolean icon for B-A is missing from the left tool bar? When I try to make slots, I follow your direction of dragging from bottom right to left to select the tab first then the box and click on the Bolean icon on the left side, A-B and I get a perfect slot. However, when I attempt to do the exact same thing on a second and all subsequent tabs and click the A-B icon, the opposite happens and everything disappears except half of the tab. To overcome this, I go into Tools and use the Bolean assistant where there is an extra icon for B-A, which isn't on the left tool bar. It's a small detail but frustrating that I have to continually go into the Bolean assistant to make slots. Any way of having this missing icon appear on the tool bar? FYI, I'm using the most up to date version of Lightburn V 1.4.01. Thanks for any help. Cheers!
Just select them in a different order.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thank you. I've been trying to do a single drag to select them in different orders but this wasn't working but when I select one then select the other with two separate operations, I get the result I'm looking for. Thanks again
Absolutely Great !!!... wish you would switch from metric. :)
The thing is Nat, metric is so much easier to do math with.
Thank you so much you are awesome
Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching!
Great Video.
Glad you enjoyed it Louis!
Thanks for the video. I might be missing something, your slots and tabs are the same length, shouldn't they also need to account for the kerf? i.e. the tabs need to be length of slots plus the kerf, the tabs should look longer than the slots.
That is correct Simon. This video was just talking about making slots and tabs. I have another video on kerf. What I do personally is, I put the tabs on another layer with a positive kerf offset in the Cuts and Layers window.
Hi Rich! I have no idea how to make evenly spaced slots on a curved design. Example: along an S or snake shape. Would very much appreciate your help. Thanx.
Try using copy along path Jose.
Thanks for the video, but when I use the subtract tool it gets rid of everything except the part of the small tab box outside of the larger box. Can't figure out where it's going wrong. Followed all of your steps exactly.
Tools --> Boolean Assistant John.
Great Video Rich, hope you are doing better!!
I am! Thanks!
Thanks for the tips. This is a lot easier than the method I was using. Curious as to why you create the tabs with the kerf included. Would it not be even easier to just create to the size you want and then enter the kerf offset in the layer settings, or is there a difference I am missing?
I change the size of the tabs. So if I use 2.8mm wood, I make them 3mm.
love to follow along with you,thanks. EZ Pezy after you show us!
Glad to hear that!
Always simple but effective info! ❤
Glad you think so!
how do you do it if you want to create a gap between the edge of the box and the slots? For example creating a book.
I'm not sure I understand the question James. Try posting on my free forum. lahobbyguy.com/bb
you havnt allowed for kerf on the sides of the tabs or slots where they fit together only for wood thickness
I only add the kerf to one side so they glue up easier.
I cant get the Boolean subtract to work, I am making identical boxes, the weld works. Sometimes the Boolean tool will remove 1 tab then if i get it again, it removes the box itself and leaves the tabs.
It the order in which you select the items. Use the Boolean Assistant instead. Tools --> Boolean Assistant
Nice one again, Rich. You are the best
Thank you kindly!
Is the wood size on important if your making it like a box? Can it be any slot size plus the kerf if you’re laying your pieces flat and interlocking them l like a puzzle?
Yes
Thank you so much!!
Glad it helped!