Learn to use your laser by Making Puzzles! - Dialing in your cut and engrave settings in Lightburn
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Are you tired of running material test grids and want to make something real with your laser but don't know what to make? Try creating puzzles to dial in your engravings and cut settings! These puzzles can be great coffee table conversation pieces or simple gifts for friends and family. We'll go over how to set up your artwork in Lightburn and use an online puzzle creator to create the custom puzzle artwork that's ready to be used as a vector file for cutting the puzzle pieces. We'll even create a tray that can be customized to hold the puzzle when it's complete.
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You can probably save some material by also cutting out that tray lip the same time as the puzzle pieces. Also inserting the puzzle pieces by sliding them off the paper into the tray may help out as well. Great video, fantastic idea. My wife loves puzzles so this is definitely on my list!
Yep adding the outer frame to the original puzzle would save on some waste material. Have fun with making some puzzles for your wife!
THANKS!
this is what i was looking for!
Thank for checking it out! Happy Puzzle making!
great video with instruction steve blissful to follow you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Please stop spinning the mouse. It is very distracting!
Why does my speed say.. Speed (mm/sec) and your says Speed (mm/min)? How do I change mine?
Lightburn defaults to mm/sec, which is the typical speed for Co2 lasers. You can change this by going to the edit menu and the settings option. You can choose mm/sec, mm/min, or even in/sec or in/min.
I can't read the link that you showed for puzzle layout...i have poor signal here...may i ask what link is it..and if can i used just a phone to it or it should be laptop?..thanks.
The link is in the description of the video, but I'll copy it here. draradech.github.io/jigsaw/jigsaw.html It works best on a laptop but you should be able to load it on a phone as well.
@@Vintauri thankyou😊
Do you think lightburn software will support my laser???
Its CO2 6045
I would need more information on your specific laser to know if lightburn is compatible with it. I would need either a GRBL controller or a DSP/Ruida controller to use lightburn.
This doesn’t seem to account for laser kerf, which would result in a looser fit between pieces. Wouldn’t each puzzle piece need to be its own closed shape to apply a kerf adjustment?
Only if you want to assemble the puzzle just once. The diode laser kerf gives just enough space to be able to place the pieces to fit together without a friction fit that would make them hard to separate. You could do them with a kerf offset but that would take more material as you would have to have them all cut separate from each other. Then the fit would be so tight that you would risk them breaking if you wanted to pull them back apart. I find the slightly loose fit to be fine, and the baseplate helps hold it all together.
When cutting the border and the puzzle at once you can spare some material. But I like the idea; compliments for putting so much information in a relatively short video.
Question; is it possible to stick a photo on the wood? I expect you need air assist. Should it be beter to place the picture on the bottom, so the picture will have less burning? Or does the air assist doesn’t work any more?
As you can see: Your video inspired me; I’m already thinking how to make a puzzle which is a lot bigger then the laser can cut in one go!
You are correct that you can save some material by cutting the border with the puzzle. It was an afterthought on my part to not do both at the same time. You can engrave a photo into wood. You’ll have to play with the image processing to get it to look decent. Air assist generally will make engravings look a bit smeared so I would leave it off during that but turn it on during the cutting operation. As for putting an actual photograph onto the wood and cutting, that would require some investigation to the photographic paper. It often contains silver and other chemicals that might not do well or could be hazardous to cut. A happy medium might be to printout the photo on regular paper, laminate that to the wood with some light glue and then cut it out. That could be an interesting experiment to see if you can cut the paper and wood without excessive charting. It might be something I have to try.
This really made my day!! Can't wait to surprise my son with a puzzle with his picture. 😁😁😁Very grateful, man. Cheers to you!
That's great! I'm sure your son will get a kick out of his puzzle!
Clear and simple instructions and a fine end result. Nicely done!
Glad it was helpful!
Can you do 8 by 11 puzzle
You can specify the size of the puzzle you want using the online generator tool linked in the description.
I love "the real life" of this: the not perfect cutting through etc... Thank you!
I do try to keep it real with the mistakes and process in there. It's not all smooth and easy going with any tool. Thanks for watching!
No, those gaps in your frame were generated by light burn. Double click on that layer and clear the Tabs / Bridges button. If you did a preview you would have seen the gaps. Why LightBurn defaults tabs on waisted many hours of mine .
But other wise allot of good information that I'll be using. Thank you
Those were not tabs from lightburn as I only use those on if I'm creating a kit to sell and want them to stay in the sheet. They would also be more spread out around the entire cut. Tabs should not be turned on by default, I've always had to purposefully activate it on any of my installs.
@@Vintauri Check your version. Version 1.3.01 does do this it also allow me to adjust tab size amount and power.
I love this
How clever is that! thank you for sharing
Glad you liked it!
@@Vintauri I feel like you've made a mistake, tiger was messed up since you've cut rather than engraving... It would've been better if you engrave the tiger and cut only the puzzle line... Great video 👍
@@adalemao2146 I'm not sure what you mean. The tiger was engraved, and then the puzzle pieces were cut.
Great, great, great. thank you for sharing the idea !
Glad you liked it!
So Awesome to see how easy it is. Thank you for your time and effort you put in this video. My son's will get a puzzle immediately. Also subbed to your channel! great job keep on going. Do you have a insta page?
You're very welcome! I do have an instagram page under the same name. instagram.com/vintauri/
Looking at buying a laser for the workshop what would you buy ? I am just a garage set up at home and looking at making a few things for the wife for the car boot sales here in Scotland UK just subscribed to your channel and will be watching more videos.
looking not for the best price but the most reliable and repeatable Diode 20 watt laser what would you recommend, I have experience with CNC routing as we have one in the shop and also cnc lathe, just think this would add another dimension to the shop
True 20w output diode lasers are fairly new this year and I've only had my hands on a couple of them. The Atomstack A20 pro and the Xtool 20w upgrade module for the original D1. I've worked with more 10w lasers from more manufacturers. Based on that, when looing for reliability and repeatability, I'd look at any of the three from Xtool, Sculpfun or Atomstack. If Ortur comes out with a 20w that would quickly rise to the top of the list as well. Each of them will have their quirks. Some of them have safety sensors that can trip things up, others have hardware that needs to be checked for coming loose. Most of them have decent support, however the online communities on UA-cam, Facebook and others are where you will find the most support. Any one of them would be a great addition to a workshop and your experience using the CNC router will help in learning the laser.
great project. thanks!
Glad you like it!
Thank you can't wait try this
Hope you enjoy
that's slick! thanks.
Thanks for checking it out! The puzzles are fun to make and for some are a good money maker at craft fairs.
great tutorial...
thanks !
Thanks for checking it out!
Thank you! I love this! ☺️
I cannot get my laser to cut for nothing in the world, and i have a 20w smh. I’m practicing on some thin mdf but it just wont break past the surface even a little bit
I've had a mdf that my laser wouldn't cut. I've been cutting for a year and most mdf hasn't been a problem.
Thank you so much!!! What type of laser are you using?
This one was done on the Xtool D1 - 10watt diode laser.
Excellent work
Just a quick note could I take a photograph and place that as a puzzle like you have with the tiger
Many thanks Stuart from uk
You sure can use a photo engraving instead of vector art. It takes more practice to get the photo engraving done well but once you have those settings you can engrave it on wood and then cut out the puzzle pattern.
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Did you add kerf to any of the layers of the puzzle pieces?
I did not add any kerf to the puzzle parts. To get them to fit more exactly, you would have to cut them all separately. As is with the diode laser they are a little loose but not so much that you cannot keep the pieces together.
Which machine are you using for the puzzles?
I’m this video I was cutting it using the XTool D1 standard 10w laser but the same could be done on any of the lasers I’ve tested.
Very good information and easy to digest. Thank you.
You are welcome!