Anyone run into this issue with lasercutter designs before? I’ve been trying to follow the instructions to fix it in inkscape but end up messing the design up proper. “Alt-J” in lightburn seems to do nothing to fix it.
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If you’re around this evening, we can take a look at it during CAD group.
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Was this solved? I might be able to help too. I didn’t see this post until now.
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Not yet! I haven’t had a chance to look at it tonight but I could probably be on site tomorrow evening
The earliest I’d be available is Saturday afternoon. I the meantime, I think I solved my problem by creating a new segment, overlaying it with the other path and using union to make it a single path. Either that or overlapping the path with itself and unioning, maybe? Seems like it was something like that.
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Yay brute force method!!
Right on - sorry I was not available for Saturday Evening. I will attempt to do the “new segment” style and see where that gets me. I have a local copy of lightburn I set up with a dummy laser to let me know if I was successful or not lol
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Going to mark this tenatively solved as I believe I have found a solution. Since my design has a lot of bezier lines in it that I did not want “cut” I thought I had to run those as a “fill”. Lightburn correctly told me that it could not, in fact, fill lots of lines. It was however perfectly happy in running those as a “line”. They may not be the fattest lines but they can easily be widened later with a wood burner or dremel. Will test the theory tomorrow but on the dummy laser I got zero complaints about closed shapes.
You can select the bezier lines and go to the Stroke tool to widen the stroke.
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