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Baldomero Prado

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:20:16 PM8/3/24

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Hello we are new to lightburn and laser itself. we designed a rummy game on lightburn. we will be burning all the text and images of the game onto wood using lightburn. we then want to drill the peg holes and cut in card pockets using our cnc router. Is there a way to save what we did in lightburn into a different format like .BMP, .JPEG, GIF, TIF, TIFF or some other format so I can transfer it to vectric vcarve pro. thank you

Hello Jeff. yeah when I downloaded lightburn I was quite impressed on the amount of different buttons that there were for a $40 program, compared to $700 for vcarve. My wife will be using our laser more than I will so she has been studying lightburn a lot more than I have. I imagine that I will be moving over to using lightburn more as time goes on. But for the moment I probably stick with vcarve at least until things slow down a little here. thank you

Thank you! Aspire is built to directly interface with vcarve, correct? I have read that exporting from shapr to vcarve creates lots of problems with the vectors duplicating and intersecting to such an extent that it is too complicated to clean up. I have vcarve but not Aspire,have you exported directly from shapr to vcarve successfully without having to go through Aspire? Thank you again

Again, thank you so much. Shapr looks amazing to me and I am considering it to design wood furniture that has carving elements such as scrolls, curves, and graphic etc. Buying the iPad for shapr is the issue for me, and I just want to be certain that shapr will interface well with Vcarve as we had someone send us a project made in shapr and after importing into vcarve there were a lot of problems with the vectors and I have read of similar issues from other users, but it sounds like you have had success in this area. Very grateful for your replies

The concern I have is when you say vectors. Drawing behavior may be different than STL files. For example, when I export a drawing or sketch for use for a plasma cutter, water-jet, or laser cutter, the top view ONLY must be used (at least for now). If side views are exported, then you will experience an issue. When I need a part cut from a side view, I rotate it to the Top view, then export only that view and only that component. For using 3D STL files however, you will be fine.

@leifnicklas I am curious what the outcome of this was. I started going to school for woodworking and find myself struggling greatly with VCarve Pro. I have been looking for something I am more comfortable with and came across Shapr3D. I like so much about the program but before I dive in headfirst l was curious if you were able to export to VCarve without have to mess with changing vectors?

Aspire allows you to modify the STL file, but not by vectors. You can smooth edges, smudge, extend, etc.
Info not believe VCarve enables the same capability. However, Aspire is a significant investment.

So I've read several threads and have used various ways to approach conversion of a fusion 360 file to dxf or something readable for vcarve (we have a shopbot which we primarily use vcarve for). Basically I found a solution on youtube that seems reasonable: projecting the sketch face of each component to save as a dxf. However, this is not entirely working. If there is an easier way, please let me know. Otherwise, please help me and point out anything I may have done incorrectly.

I understand you've already got momentum with VCarve. I used it for years and tried to do the same thing with a Fusion - VCarve workflow. Then I gave Fusion CAM a try and never went back. If you're willing to give it a try, this class I made for Insturctables might be helpful: -Class/