LightBurn Demo 16 – Change a Tyre?

0:00 Someone in the Boss laser group asked I

0:03 have a flat tire

0:05 should I get lightburn now? LightBurn

0:08 won’t fix a flat tire however you could

0:11 use it to change a tire and I’ll show

0:12 you what I mean

0:13 so they were saying this in jest they

0:17 were trying to make fun of the fact that

0:18 so many people seem to be jumping on the

0:20 lightburn bandwagon and hey why should

0:22 you because all you’re using it for is

0:24 sending data to your laser this is

0:27 partially true but it shows a fairly

0:30 basic misunderstanding basic lack of

0:32 understanding on the part of that user

0:33 so here we have the same vector file

0:36 it’s a tire that I just downloaded from

0:39 the internet and traced using like

0:41 LightBurn’s built-in trace feature I’ve

0:44 brought it into our t-works and lightburn

0:45 I’m using the same settings on both

0:47 so you’ll see an interval of 0.1 here on

0:50 this file we’re set to fill same thing

0:52 in RDWorks nothing special in the

0:55 layer settings nothing special in the

0:57 optimization settings now straight away

0:59 you’ll notice that the display in

1:02 lightburn is a little cleaner a little nicer

1:04 it’s showing anti aliased rendering

1:07 instead of very chunky old-school

1:09 windows rendering you’ll also notice

1:11 that the update rate is a little faster

1:13 if I drag and move the window here in

1:15 RDWorks it’s a little bit slower

1:17 than if I do the same thing over here in

1:19 lightburn you’ll notice it much more

1:21 when I try to modify the design so if I

1:26 grab just a portion of this tire and

1:28 move it you see it in our t-works

1:30 repainting very very slowly as I move

1:32 around as soon as I let go however it

1:35 pops I can undo that happens relatively

1:38 quickly performing the same task in

1:41 lightburn is much quicker if I grab and

1:43 move it around you’ll see that things

1:44 move basically in real time and undo

1:48 same thing now here’s where things get

1:50 interesting

1:51 if I click preview in RDWorks off it

1:55 goes I’m going to click preview in

1:57 lightburn as well you’ll notice that the

1:59 lightburn preview came up just a little

2:01 faster you’ll also notice that in here I

2:05 can zoom move navigate around everything

2:08 happens relatively quickly I can grab

2:11 the time slider move

2:13 back and forth to see how my job is

2:15 going to progress let’s say that I

2:18 decide I want to cut this instead of

2:20 scan it so hit preview again it

2:23 optimizes the cut plan and here we have

2:25 it I can move forward and backward in

2:28 time to see how the job is going to

2:30 progress and I can simulate from any

2:34 point by clicking play and you’ll

2:36 actually be able to watch the laser head

2:38 moving around up here meanwhile our

2:41 t-works is still over here thinking if I

2:46 see you back out of this again nope

2:48 there goes our D works so I’m just gonna

2:51 do that

2:51 so RDWorks has now finished its

2:55 first task of computing a filled version

2:58 of this and you’ll notice that things

3:01 paint relatively slowly if i zoom in or

3:05 out or I move the display our t-works

3:07 takes a moment to repaint light burn

3:10 it’s just moving zooming everything

3:13 happens quite quickly so if I decide to

3:17 go back here and make changes to my

3:20 design drag that drag this and then re

3:26 simulate or resend to the laser our D

3:29 works is off doing its thing it’s going

3:31 to spend the next five minutes chewing

3:33 on that lightburn it’s basically done

3:35 instantly so I can’t fix your tire but

3:39 if you want to change a tire I would say

3:41that lightburn is a better choice