I like LaserGRBL. It meets my needs for the most part, and I already knew enough other packages that Lightburn seemed unnecessary. One major gripe though is pathing. for vector work, LaserGRBL seems to generate its toolpath based on the order that I designed the drawing. This feels really inefficient with the thing hopping around all over the place. Anybody know of a way to strip that information from the SVG, or somehow optimize it before going to the laser?

Just a small lasercut project after too many people were hitting me with "uwu"

I'm waiting for some different bases to ship so I can give Gengar a spookier color

Turns out a misaligned mirror made the laser hit the lens in a weird way, and then bouncing off something on the way out to produce this double line. Probably. What kind of strange troubleshooting have you done and what was the reason/fix?

it's basically an atx psu on steroids.

Made of 1/8" Birch ply, stained and painted

My latest shopping nightmare has been trying to find 12x12" or 4x4" photo frames that are already backlit or that I can easily backlight so I can put etched mirrors (or etched acrylic or glass) and have it look SUPER COOL. I feel sure that these things exist somewhere but trying to search the current web marketplaces (amazon, ali*, etc) is super frustrating.

An essential resource for every laser cutter operator is boxes.py, a great piece of free and open source software by Florian Festi and its community. You choose from dozens of available designs, can tweak every parameter and measurement to your needs and boxes.py provides a production ready SVG file.

It can be either used within the webbrowser, selfhosted locally or installed as an Inkscape plugin. Advanced users can even use the provided python library to write their own generators.

• Try it out in your browser
• Read more about the project here
• View source on GitHub

I made a couple of laser bed nail boards for my Creality Falcon Module on my Ender 3 V2.

I originally made this model for a nail board, that used the bamboo cutting board from Dollar Tree.

I started by making a template in Fusion 360 and exporting a DXF file for LightBurn. (The export is completely doable with a personal license - with just a few extra steps)

And glued some magnets on the bottom to keep them from moving around.

I used:

2 ea. Dollar Tree Bamboo board

1 ea. Dollar Tree 9 x 13 Aluminum pan

3 ea. Home Depot #16 x 1-1/4in Wire Nails (1oz package)

LightBurn File Link

Very creative and inspirational lasercut creations by one of the Etsy founders Jared Tarbell.