LightBurn Quick Tips: Flood Fill

Flood fill scanning in LightBurn. A great optimization option for scan filling vector engravings. Walks through what it does and shows an example of the time savings on a simple framed box.

[@rupfdeci3290]

You are my savior! :-D How could I ever have had dumped time in the past. :-) I owe you one!🖖

[@stonefreeblues]

Just downloaded LB. These videos are gold for a noob like me! Thanks!

[@FactsOfLife]

Thanks bro. I didn't know about the Flood Fill option. In newer versions this option is under the Advance Tab.

[@ashleycawley5816]

Amazing feature, I can't wait to try this on my low cost laser. I've purchased Lightburn and I use it on Ubuntu and I love it!

[@genabush4619]

Wow! Thank you so much for all your tips!!

[@thetinkerverse]

You are welcome!

[@sylvia5989]

Awesome!! Thank you❤

[@thetinkerverse]

No problem 😊

[@ichbinsnur1941]

At "Less impact on your Machine" i wouldn't agree. Using flood fill there are much more acceleraton/deceleration cycles stressing the Motors and Belt drives, as well as the Linear rails.🤔

[@user-ur4pd4bt7u]

Tahnks for your videos! I wonder Wahy I not cant edit existing text.

[@honda35061]

Thanks for your video Carl

[@fablefoxweaver]

At minute 1:40, it would be easier to understand if you checked the "Show traversal moves" box :)

[@DavidALovingMPF102]

I have never seen this option in my lightburn software. I will look for it. it is September of 2023

[@johnnyingram938]

how do i get flood fill setting ?

[@weedyganzalays]

Thanks so much for sharing

[@ShortBetter]

Any ideas why my 60w fiber won't engrave all the details unless I turn on flood fill? All the settings, focus, seems to be correct...

[@thetinkerverse]

Unfortunately I don't have any insight on that. My recommendation would be to post to the support forum or send their support team a message.

[@Dancopymus]

Hi Carl, first of all thanks for the tutorial. I don't know if I understand, but let's say we have a Circular Ellipse with 5mm Offset (similar to the square you showed in 2:22) and we'll use Fill + Line; In that case, can I use Flood Fill? Will this behave in the movements as if the laser were cutting? Thanks

[@maytube102]

so when is a time to not using the flood fill option? thanks

[@martinsmith3047]

Great tip Carl... does this work on an Image

[@zakspop]

Why is this not just the default way of doing things? I just did a 48 minute burn that would have been 19 with this turned on.

[@LouAdzima]

Great videos! Thanks

[@pjimpin]

Well dam wish I would have known this sooner lol.

[@FloridaStairSupply]

very helpful thank you

[@Danielmazinni529]

I tried to use thisflood fill and the glowforge don't recognise it I have lightburn version 1.0.06

[@thetinkerverse]

I don't believe LightBurn supports Glowforge. GF comes with it's own custom software as far as I'm aware.

[@sparkyjackson8479]

It's like on fast forwards, slow down man !

[@Skinnyriver]

Great vid! What are the negatives of flood fill? Any degradation of quality. Curious why this would just simply be the default setting?

[@thetinkerverse]

Not a lot of drawback n my experience unless you're doing a lot of thin lines causing very rapid direction changes in shot travels which can be hard on smaller machines.

[@Wauk9390]

This is extremely helpful, thank you!

[@fredvarao3894]

Thank you for the video!

[@feanorcurufinwe702]

Mate ther is no "flood fill scanning" option in version 0.9.04. Any idea where is it ?

[@thetinkerverse]

I'll look into it and get back to you. I've been away from the laser for a while and am about 2 versions out of touch.

[@feanorcurufinwe702]

@@thetinkerverse Alright i checked it. The developer removed that feature due to it's errors on complicated shapes and will put it back after fixation.

[@thetinkerverse]

@@feanorcurufinwe702 Thanks for the follow up. It was on my list of things to ask Jason about today. You beat me to it :)

[@feanorcurufinwe702]

@@thetinkerverse That feature is a must. Hope he can add that back as soon as possible because it's a game changer.

[@jimster1111]

1+ years later and it still hasnt been put back in. rediculous.

[@coww74]

Great tutorial. I would just be wary of using this on faster machines like CO2 lasers because this will cause a lot more smaller rapid movements which will be tougher on the machine rather than helping the machine. In terms of quality of engraving I would also avoid this on designs with more detail rather than large areas of white space, because like the letters here, when it has to come back and do areas separately, the colors of the wood engravings will vary rather than being one consistent color. A post titled "Flood Fill Problem" on the lightburn forum goes into more detail with some pictures for examples of some of these issues with flood fill.

[@DavidALovingMPF102]

Thanks. I will check it out.

[@brycemiller407]

Im noticing in the 0.9.07 version I am unable to do this feature, unless i need to cross hatch but that doesn't make sense either.

[@davidr5964]

Why is this not switched to On by default in the software? What are the downsides?

[@Bienen-Welten]

👍

[@FUBARguy107]

Here we are about a year after this video. Version 0.9.17 and still no Flood Fill option

[@thetinkerverse]

@MadManAz I'm not sure I follow. Flood Fill is there. When you open up the cut settings editor for a layer there is a toggle for Flood Fill on the right side about 2/3 of the way down the window. It's next to the raido button for Fill shapes individually.

[@thetinkerverse]

If you still don't see it, make sure to go to Edit > Settings and make sure Beginner Mode is turned off.