Diode Lasers - 3X Faster Burn Times in Lightburn

Use these tips shown in this video to reduce your project burn times in Lightburn software. Diode lasers aren't considered the quickest lasers, so the more time we can save using these techniques offering a reduction in engraving time, the more fun you get to have with other projects.
How much time do you think you can save???
You might be surprised when you see the results!

[@Ed_Downunder]

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]

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

[@hardshellwoodworks]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@SthrnAllStar]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@MrDeltagarcia]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@cynicalidealist821]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome - thanks for your support

[@guynotes777]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@josephsmith601]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

Appreciate that Joseph 🙂

[@sannyassi73]

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]

I appreciate you tuning in and thanks for the sub 🙏

[@colind2955]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@norm5785]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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 🇦🇺 😀

[@dkraft]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@williambarndt3017]

Great information and very well explained! Thank you!!

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome William and thanks for taking a look

[@agentrapper]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

That's great to hear - thanks for tuning in

[@sauletto1]

This is excellent ! Thank you very much for this !

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome Steve - thanks for watching

[@zina6581]

Excellent information! Thank you so much!!

[@mrcraftsmith]

Glad it was helpful!

[@user-fi5nb3pu5e]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks for watching Bob

[@jerrybootneck1736]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks for watching Jerry - appreciate the sub 🙂

[@PCJ52]

Excellent video. Thank you very much!

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@charlesstacyharrisiii2593]

I just found this. Thanks for the great tips!

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome Charles

[@user-ru5ho5qt4w]

Thanks Mate you are a life saver !

[@mrcraftsmith]

No worries Peter - glad it was helpful

[@redfox0099]

Such an excellent Video

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks Nathan - appreciate the thumbs up :)

[@user-jc8pd1cj5b]

Excelent vifdeo & tips. Cheers

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome gareth :)

[@outdooralex2935]

Thank you for this ❤

[@mrcraftsmith]

Not a problem

[@custampin]

What fantastic information! Thank you!

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome Chris 🙂

[@custampin]

@@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]

That's a great outcome Chris 👍

[@andyn333]

Good stuff!!

[@mrcraftsmith]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@krisknowlton5935]

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]

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

[@mlarsen77]

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

[@sannyassi73]

@@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

[@rightpassage]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

Appreciate you tuning in :) - I did a video showing the offset fill method as well - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3WymnuwoZ6He7M 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 :)

[@whatistheirface]

Saved my butt! TY!

[@mrcraftsmith]

glad it was helpful for you - thanks for watching

[@annabelcortes1611]

Thank you 🙂

[@mrcraftsmith]

You’re welcome Annabel and thanks for tuning in 😀

[@user-oc7qg1zq8e]

Brilliant

[@mrcraftsmith]

thank you :)

[@chriscowan8470]

nice one Darren :)

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks Chris :)

[@lovinglife3675]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

That's awesome - glad you enjoyed the video

[@abumoslemtamer7331]

شكرا جزيلا لك !

[@mrcraftsmith]

You're welcome 🙂

[@garciadesignsco]

Game changer

[@mrcraftsmith]

Excellent- thanks for watching 🙂

[@izudin7310]

tq sir

[@mrcraftsmith]

you're welcome

[@user-sk5nr4yh8d]

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]

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]

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.

[@tgsparkyoriginal]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@kenthomas4479]

oh dam this is a great video.. dam

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks Ken - appreciate the feedback

[@georgeburnett8266]

cheers

[@mrcraftsmith]

You’re welcome George

[@fotoesksk]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@RAVENSIXONE]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@iq0099]

Can the Fill Offset do the same?

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@arthureschner9319]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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 KZbin as a platform, it gives everyone equal opportunity to share their learnings (wins and losses)

[@jaychuncidjay823]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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 🙂

[@colinlee7089]

You could also speed it up by using flat fill

[@mrcraftsmith]

Thanks Colin - I’ll check that out 👍

[@rmgf1005]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@MileyonDisney]

t h a n k s

[@mrcraftsmith]

you're welcome

[@charlesholcomb3791]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

Hey Charles - thanks for watching - I did a follow up video on exactly that :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3WymnuwoZ6He7M

[@user-ig4mg7go1s]

Please, can you enclose the file?

[@mrcraftsmith]

can you be more specific - which file?

[@user-ig4mg7go1s]

@@mrcraftsmith files used in the video

[@jakerazmataz852]

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]

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

[@regalriding]

Flood fill is your best bet just a simple click

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@colinlee7089]

Flood fill

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@colinlee7089]

@@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]

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

[@DavidALovingMPF102]

good video, way too many comercials.

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@DavidALovingMPF102]

no thanks. @@mrcraftsmith

[@nicmc3077]

90* scan would be even faster.

[@mrcraftsmith]

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

[@nicmc3077]

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

[@eezeprint7687]

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

[@mrcraftsmith]

thanks for the feedback - I'll take that onboard