All your tips are really helpful. I also tried another method called "Offset Fill," the third option, and it also helped reduce the engraving time.

I’ve been looking for a video like this! Thank you so much!!

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Calvin - I’m glad you found it useful 🙂

Excellent tip on speed. That's exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for the great class!

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Daniel, glad you found it helpful :)

This was very helpful! Straightforward and well explained! Definitely appreciated!

@mrcraftsmith

4 ай бұрын

Similarly, I appreciate the feedback, glad it was helpful :)

Fantastic ideas and will have to try on other projects..thank you

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in - I’m sure the same principles could be applied to more complex engraves for sure 🙂

You don't know what you don't know. For those that know, it is obvious, but for others it is not obvious and valuable knowledge. For future project, I will plan my burns and get back up to 80% of my life. Great information, thank you.

@mrcraftsmith

6 ай бұрын

Hey Edward - you are spot on there - glad it was helpful to you 😀

@502deth

4 күн бұрын

i know, but it was far from obvious. as soon as he started talking about splitting it in 2, it hit me, and i thought, holy shit, this is brilliant. so simple but i had never even considered it before.

OG Knowledge, you got a subscriber for this one, DONT EVER STOP!!!👍👍👍

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that Joseph 🙂

Great information. Thank you for sharing. Everyone stay safe, warm, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia

@mrcraftsmith

5 ай бұрын

G'day Norm - thanks for tuning in - we are travelling at the moment in Europe - much colder (in a nice way) than our summer in Australia 🇦🇺 😀

Cheers, I’m also new to laser engraving and this is helpful and easy to follow. Will give this a try. Many thanks

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Hey Colin - thanks for watching - glad it was helpful - I'm having a blast learning all about what these engravers are capable of.

This is very helpful, I always enjoy your videos. Thank you!

@mrcraftsmith

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome - thanks for your support

Great information and very well explained! Thank you!!

@mrcraftsmith

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome William and thanks for taking a look

Thanks for the tip about breaking them up into layers! I hadn't thought of that, I know it'll help a lot in the future. Some of the other comments in this thread are very helpful too! Sub earned :D

@mrcraftsmith

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate you tuning in and thanks for the sub 🙏

Excellent information! Thank you so much!!

@mrcraftsmith

10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent video. Thank you very much!

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙂

This is excellent ! Thank you very much for this !

@mrcraftsmith

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome Steve - thanks for watching

Brilliant use of Lightburn tools! Thanks. You just sold another copy.

@mrcraftsmith

8 ай бұрын

glad it was helpful Pony Soldier - it is a great program :)

Thanks so much for the info! I hope to take advantage of it soon

@mrcraftsmith

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Bob

This will help a lot, thank you and another subscriber here.

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jerry - appreciate the sub 🙂

Thank you again brother! You’re a life saver!! It works!!! 😎👍🏼👍🏼

@mrcraftsmith

3 күн бұрын

No problem 👍 glad it was helpful

I just found this. Thanks for the great tips!

@mrcraftsmith

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome Charles

Thanks Mate you are a life saver !

@mrcraftsmith

4 ай бұрын

No worries Peter - glad it was helpful

Such an excellent Video

@mrcraftsmith

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Nathan - appreciate the thumbs up :)

What fantastic information! Thank you!

@mrcraftsmith

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome Chris 🙂

@custampin

3 ай бұрын

@@mrcraftsmith Today I edited my file based on your recommendation and I went from a 5 minute job to a 1 minute job! Thanks so much! Plan on printing about 100 of these things. Not that good with math either 😂but I do know that it's quite a time savings. Thanks again!

@mrcraftsmith

3 ай бұрын

That's a great outcome Chris 👍

Thank you for this ❤

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Not a problem

Excelent vifdeo & tips. Cheers

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome gareth :)

Good stuff!!

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you 🙂

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Annabel and thanks for tuning in 😀

Brilliant

@mrcraftsmith

2 ай бұрын

thank you :)

This is so very usefull to a n00b like me. Thank you!

@mrcraftsmith

2 ай бұрын

That's great to hear - thanks for tuning in

شكرا جزيلا لك !

@mrcraftsmith

7 ай бұрын

You're welcome 🙂

Saved my butt! TY!

@mrcraftsmith

10 ай бұрын

glad it was helpful for you - thanks for watching

nice one Darren :)

@mrcraftsmith

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris :)

Nice mate! I'm new also. I find that offset-fill helps sometimes. 😉

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate you tuning in :) - I did a video showing the offset fill method as well - kzread.info/dash/bejne/o3iDy6qznJy6dbQ.html it definitely does work but I reckon there are some instances where it may not be as beneficial - but that may be me just me throwing caution to the wind :)

Game changer

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Excellent- thanks for watching 🙂

tq sir

@mrcraftsmith

2 ай бұрын

you're welcome

Darren , you are now on my xmas card list !!!! lol

@mrcraftsmith

10 ай бұрын

That's awesome - glad you enjoyed the video

cheers

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome George

There is another way. Use the fill all shapes separately. You only used two of the three options. I haven't tested it yet but I believe if you use use that third option you will find you will be able to shave a little more time off.

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kris - I’ll take a look at that option 🙂

@mlarsen77

Жыл бұрын

Fill shapes individually, and flood fill will eliminate all white space traversal. I never leave home without this feature.

@sannyassi73

6 ай бұрын

@@mlarsen77 and the original commenter- thanks for the extra tips! I'll be testing all these settings out later today on my test file :D

oh dam this is a great video.. dam

@mrcraftsmith

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Ken - appreciate the feedback

Great video very helpful. Also while you are only using one layer for demonstration purposes, when it comes to regrouping to let's say 4 quarters of a circle will that work when you have mulitple layers in each quarter that I would regroupe? Thank you.

@mrcraftsmith

8 ай бұрын

the best way to check if that is the case would be to view the preview it will give you a run though how it is going to traverse

@BuildItMakeIt

5 ай бұрын

If you look at the image at 9:10 you can see that there is almost no excess traversal time with just the two splits so there wouldn't be any advantage of grouping much smaller. It will depend on each project but generally you are splitting groups to get the most reasonable reduction in travel over white spaces.

Nice video. Have you tried FLOOD FILL? Does the same thing without splitting up the file.

@mrcraftsmith

11 ай бұрын

Yes I have tried flood fill and it works on certain situations better than others - simple shapes, no problem :)

You could also speed it up by using flat fill

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Colin - I’ll check that out 👍

I would like a tutorial for the latest version of Lightburn software

@mrcraftsmith

5 ай бұрын

I am away till end of January- however what specifically do you want the tutorial on?

If you did an "Offset Fill" it will reduce the time even more.

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

I agree Offset fill would be faster, and I did test it, however I was a little uncomfortable with how much the machine was jumping around - seem slie a lot of extra stress on the stepper motors for not a significant gain - with solid shapes happy to run Offset fill though. I may just be erring on the side of caution, who knows for sure, if you are comfortable running your machine like that, no worries :) Thanks for watching

Can the Fill Offset do the same?

@mrcraftsmith

6 ай бұрын

it can depending on use case - I cover that in another video

help i have longer ray5 10w when i start up lightburn up the squares are 1/4in how can i resize it smaller

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

If you go into Lightburn settings, on the right hand side you will see "visual grid spacing" you can change the distance there

how can I get this file test for D1pro 20w Thanks in advance

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

I made it myself in photoshop - do you have access to that or similar - you can google greyscale test and you should find plenty of examples 🙂

Any particular reason why you dont just use flood fill? It seems that would give the same effect, if not even reduce the whitespace even more.

@mrcraftsmith

Ай бұрын

No particular reason Arthur - that was one of my first videos and I was still pretty new to the scene - I was excited to share my findings

@arthureschner9319

Ай бұрын

@@mrcraftsmith Ah ok. Thanks for the video & sharing your knowledge. I'm also just starting to learn, so was just thinking maybe there was another reason for it. I actually "accidentally" clicked flood-fill in the setting & then realised what a big difference it made to the speed. I really like your idea of engraving / cutting groups together, that really helps reduce time as well. Thanks again.

@mrcraftsmith

Ай бұрын

@@arthureschner9319 I'm pretty sure I have mentioned it in another video possibly - honestly I can't remember - I guess that's what learning is all about - there are 100's of ways to achieve similar outcomes I'm sure and that is what I love about KZread as a platform, it gives everyone equal opportunity to share their learnings (wins and losses)

t h a n k s

@mrcraftsmith

Ай бұрын

you're welcome

Give chaining your Fill to Offset Fill and see what happens.

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Hey Charles - thanks for watching - I did a follow up video on exactly that :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/o3iDy6qznJy6dbQ.html

The program should be written to give you choices to reduce burn time. Some may not fit your needs, some might. Get on it programers.

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Hey Jake - the program does give you choices - i guess you just have to know what those choices are :)

Flood fill is your best bet just a simple click

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching - I tested flood fill and was 3 minutes slower.

Please, can you enclose the file?

@mrcraftsmith

11 ай бұрын

can you be more specific - which file?

@user-ig4mg7go1s

11 ай бұрын

@@mrcraftsmith files used in the video

Flood fill

@mrcraftsmith

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching - flood fill is a bit slower, however I may be doing it wrong?

@colinlee7089

Жыл бұрын

@@mrcraftsmith yes you're absolutely right. I've just tried it out myself and it is slower so that information is very very interesting. Thank you very much 👍

@tgsparkyoriginal

11 ай бұрын

@@colinlee7089 I just tried FLOOD FILL and it cut my times on my current job by 25%. I think it depends on the image

good video, way too many comercials.

@mrcraftsmith

5 ай бұрын

Thanks David - I have KZread premium - no ads :)😀

@DavidALovingMPF102

5 ай бұрын

no thanks. @@mrcraftsmith

90* scan would be even faster.

@mrcraftsmith

2 ай бұрын

I'll have to admit I haven't done much with scan angle

@nicmc3077

2 ай бұрын

it can make a BIG difference project time. @@mrcraftsmith

To many 26 second adverts you will struggle to get subs with that going on

@mrcraftsmith

8 ай бұрын

thanks for the feedback - I'll take that onboard