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hey thanks for stopping by
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before we get started today i just
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wanted to take a few minutes and thank
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everybody
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for subscribing to my channel we just
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passed our 1000 subscription
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i'm so excited for the content that i'm
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going to create in 2021
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so stick around and let's see what we've
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got going today
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so what are we going to cover today if
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you're brand new to lasers
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and you're brand new to light burn this
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is a video for you
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what i've done is i've used a laser for
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about a year now
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i've used a light burn for about a year
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now and what i did is i kind of looked
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back
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on the things that i use on a continual
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basis
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and we're going to cover those in some
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tips and tricks today
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so stay tuned let's check it out okay
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i'm going to show you a number of tips
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that you'll be able to use just about on
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every project you
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do in light burn i find myself using
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most all of these
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most of the time if you learn these and
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understand
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why you would want to use them it will
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save you quite a bit of time
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so the first thing the tip number one
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will be
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if you have a a mouse and it's got a
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scroll wheel
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on the top of the mouse that's
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a great way to move around your canvas
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if i use the scroll mouse and roll it
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forward or backwards
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you can see that i can zoom into places
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and zoom out
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i can hold the scroll mouse
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uh wheel down and pan
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and it's just a lot quicker way to move
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around it'll be a great way for you to
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start getting around your
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design space in lipo tip number two
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is going to be especially when you're
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starting off the thing that you want to
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always want to do
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is create a boundary for your project
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let's say that you were going to want to
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engrave
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on a small coaster
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a small slate coaster and you wanted to
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do a fairly simple
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uh design and you wanted that design to
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be right in the middle of the
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of the coaster that you purchased the
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way you would do that
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is you would come over here grab your
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rectangle tool
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hold your left mouse button down pull it
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out let it go
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i don't worry too much about what size
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it is because one of the things that
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you'll be able to do
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a lot is come up here and dial in
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exactly what your width
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and your height of your coaster is going
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to be i measured my coaster with a
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little
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caliper and it's 3.94
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and 3.94
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you might wonder well gee why didn't we
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just round it off to four inches
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and the reason why we want this frame
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that we're going to start working on
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with our design
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it needs to be as accurate as it can be
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and the reason i say that is we're
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actually going to use this
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frame to actually outline the coaster to
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make sure that we're
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that the slate coaster is in the bed of
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the laser correctly
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so you can get this design that you're
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going to put in here
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exactly where you want it so
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this tip i use i use frames on just
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about everything i do
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whether it's a wood picture a coaster
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a cutting board it just doesn't matter
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the first thing that i do
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is i measure up the extents of my
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project
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or even if it's just a big piece of wood
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and i'm going to be doing a number of
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things on
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that piece of wood i will make a frame
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that's the dimensions of that wood and
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then work within that
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and you'll see when we get to the laser
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portion of these tips
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how valuable that is so just keep in
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mind
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always build yourself a frame and then
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work within your framework for your
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design
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now that we've got our rectangle all set
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up for our
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coaster we're going to need a design to
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bring in
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and place in the middle of this coaster
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you'll notice i've got an art library
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down here i will go ahead
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and put a link to how you generate one
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of these art libraries up above
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and this is a a tool that i use a lot
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that we won't get into today
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but look at that video and you can see
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how uh helpful these can be so what i'm
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going to do is i'm going to just
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drag in a design
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and i'm going to hold the control button
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down and just blow this
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up a little bit and i'm going to drag it
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in the middle of that coaster
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and you can see now that we have two
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different layer colors
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one of the things that confused me or
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that i struggled with a little bit when
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i started with light burn
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is how these colored layers work
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and what they mean and how they function
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and so i'm going to spend
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a few minutes on
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kind of how all this works so this would
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definitely be
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tip number three is learning how to
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navigate your cut and layers panel
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okay you notice since i uh generated and
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drag in
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another layer uh we've got two different
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colors here
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and uh the thing that you want to
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remember
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about light burn is each color will do
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a very specific thing um
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and so depending on what you want to do
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in this particular case
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this layer the black layer is just
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the representation of the outline of
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the slate coaster that we're going to
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use
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the blue layer uh
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shows that uh we're gonna engrave
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something in the middle of this coaster
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and i'm gonna show you how to assign
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these colors
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and a couple of things that you you need
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to know about this
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uh cut layers panel
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so let's talk a little bit about kind of
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what these are and how these functions
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the first thing that i will tell you is
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you have you can
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drag this out so you can see these
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the first thing that i will tell you is
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when i started to use light burn the
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first thing i would do
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is i would come in here you can read it
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you can rename your layers but one of
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the things that you always want to
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remember
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is whatever you name this layer it's
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going to be that
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for all the
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future projects so you want to keep your
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naming conventions
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for your layers at a fairly high level
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so what i would do is i would normally
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name my black layer as frame because i
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always have a frame on every project
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and you'll notice now it says frame and
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then down here
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i would come in and it would probably
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say o2 or
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o1 like it does here and i would change
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it to okay from now on
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the blue layer is going to be my engrave
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layer
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okay so just remember that whatever you
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put in here for
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descriptions and modes and settings
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if we save this layer and then we go to
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a new project
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and you use the black layer and the blue
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layer
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it's going to be identical and you'll
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have to come in here and change these
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speeds and
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and settings so just know that that your
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layers
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are kind of set and so my suggestion
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would be
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is that you have one for your frame
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layer one for your engraved layer one
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for your cut layer
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and so on and then you can decide on how
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many different types of layers you want
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with
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different settings that's kind of a
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personal preference
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so know that you can name these
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know that whatever you name these and
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whatever
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speeds you select these for
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uh will remain when you select that
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layer
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on a future project so they're not
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independent
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they won't change any uh of the projects
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that you've got
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named prior to this but just keep that
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in mind
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this setting here the first number is
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the speed
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and on how fast the laser head is going
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to travel
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and the second reading is the percentage
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of power
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that you've assigned to that particular
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layer
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then output means that we're going to
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actually output that to the laser that
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the laser is going to do something with
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it if i turn it
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off you'll notice that it's still
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evident but it dulls
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the color out and if i turn it off
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it disappears now it's still there it's
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just
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out of view so usually
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the way i set my frame up is i
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turn the output off at least for right
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now
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and then um you know all of the rest of
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my layers will be on
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okay if i double click this
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you can open this layer and you can
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change your name here you can put in
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your speed
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your power we're not getting get into
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all these different settings
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that's for another time but this is just
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some basic information
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on the cut layers tab okay you'll also
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be able to switch from one layer to
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another as far as your settings are
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concerned
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by this little tab down here you don't
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have to go back and forth you can just
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change
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things here there's some buttons down
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here that we're not going to talk about
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just yet
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so the name of your layer
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the mode the speed and how fast your
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laser is going to travel
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the power that you're assigning for that
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particular layer
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and the other thing that you'll keep in
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mind is
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the way you have the layers stack is
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exactly the way the laser is going to
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cut it
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so now that you've got your layer your
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two layers here
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named at a high level the next
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um is mode i will go ahead
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and link a video up top here
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to a video that i did that just
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involves what these different features
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mean
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once you understand what the line
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command the fill command
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the fill plus line command is
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uh it'll make a lot more sense to you on
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how this functions
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and so please take a look at that video
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it will demystify kind of
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what you're seeing here one of the first
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things that
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i noticed when i was starting to use
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light burn is
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when i opened this up i saw that there
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was no cut
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mode well that's because a cut mode is
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just basically a line commode
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excuse me a line mode uh with a lot more
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power associated with it and that video
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that's linked above there um we'll we'll
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talk about that
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so uh take a look at that video
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these are fairly straightforward once
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you understand how they function
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check that out this
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next section is for speed and power
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the first one is the speed that your
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laser is traveling and the percentage of
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power
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that you're assigning to this particular
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laser now
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what's nice about what thunder laser
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does
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is they actually provide a material
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library
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for each particular laser that that they
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sell
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and so this is for my thunder 60 watt
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and if you uh come down here to plywood
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and you were looking at eighth inch
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they already have one that's
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predetermined and so
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it gives you a great place to start and
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then if i uh
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wanted to engrave i just come up here to
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plywood no thickness
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come over here and um
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assign to layer and boom now i'm ready
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to go
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so um having an art libra excuse me a
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material library
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is very handy that's how you can get
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started in your speed and power
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again a lot of these will have to be
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tweaked just a little bit
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based on your preference but it
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gives you a great head start so be sure
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you
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look at the materials library if you
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own and operate a thunder laser
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the output is fairly obvious if it's on
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that means that the laser will try to
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do that function if you turn it off that
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means that it still shows it still gives
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you an indication
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but nothing's going to happen far as a
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laser is concerned it's strictly there
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for a reference
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and then the show button is where it
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actually turns it on or turns it off
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learning how these cut layers excuse me
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cut and layers
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panel works is really the heart and soul
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of
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of your design and how it turns out
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so spend a little time with this once
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you've done
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gone through a couple of projects you'll
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see how easy it is to use
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the other thing that i will tell you
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about the cut and layers panel
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is the way your layers are stacked is
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exactly the way
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it's going to function so if you had
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both of these on
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um it's going to put a line around the
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frame
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first and then it's going to engrave the
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middle and so
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when you get a going on your projects in
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some cases
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you're going to want to do your engrave
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first and then
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a cut let's say you were going to cut
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this out of a piece of wood or something
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like that and you were going to engrave
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this
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heart and dog print on a piece of wood
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you always want to do your engraving
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first and then you're
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cutting out action after that so
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just keep that in mind tip number four
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um is to turn your object snaps on
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this is really helpful for for beginners
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just because it'll take some of the
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guesswork
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out of centering things and those kind
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of things if we come up here
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to the little love gears here and we
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open it up and we come right down here
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to snapping
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you've got two options you've got snap
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to objects which i almost
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always have on and then snap to grid
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it just depends on what you're doing you
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can have them both on if you like
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i find that snap to objects is really
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handy
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and this is where you would either come
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in it come in and turn it on or off so
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we're going to turn that
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on and watch what happens
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if i have this design that i want to put
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in the middle of this
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frame if i grab this middle handle
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and i just start to drag it over kind of
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in the middle it automatically snaps to
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the middle
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of the uh coaster frame
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okay tip number five if you're uh
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fairly new and i use this all the time
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still
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um it's called the notes feature and so
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if you come up here you've got your file
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open
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and you say show notes
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this dialog box pops up
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and what's nice about this especially if
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you're doing something
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that you haven't done before or maybe
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you're dialing in some settings
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and you need to remember what you've
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done to make it work great
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is you go ahead and go ahead and put in
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your notes
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and it stays with this file the good
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thing about this
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is now you don't have to put the text on
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the workspace you can actually put it
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somewhere else where it's not affecting
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your design or you don't have to worry
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about it
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being involved in in your design space
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the other thing that's a nice feature is
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if for some reason
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you forgot or you didn't remember that
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you took some notes
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you can go ahead and turn this on
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and then next time if i save this
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file and i reopen the file that
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notes section will actually pop up
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um
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when it opens which is nice so
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like in a situation where you're dialing
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in a new process
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and you haven't done it before but you
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finally got it all figured out you've
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made your good notes here
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um this note feature here is very handy
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you can go ahead and record what
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what worked what didn't work the
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settings that you used the materials
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that worked best
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and it's all right here tip number six
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one of the things about light burn
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that's a little bit different from
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other graphic programs is that it
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doesn't have rulers or
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guides that you might be used to on
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other programs
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and so in order to be able to do certain
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layouts that are very specific
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in layout parameters
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you've got to use rectangles those kind
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of things and i like to use these two
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layers these are new to light burn
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they've only just
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added these just in the last couple of
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releases but they're really helpful for
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this
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so let's imagine that this
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black line is
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18 inches wide by 12 inches high and
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let's assume for a minute that it's
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either a piece of wood or a cutting
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board it really doesn't matter what it
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is
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but you're going to put some text on
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this
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cutting board and you want to make sure
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that you've got a one inch border
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all the way around the inside of this
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cutting board okay a couple of things
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you can do you could use the offset
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feature come in here and offset it to
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the inside
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by one inch and
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there's your guides then you could just
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delete it
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um that's assuming that you want a you
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know a one inch border all the way
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around
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the other option that i use probably
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more often because very rarely are they
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the same all the way around
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is i like to
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start a rectangle
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and i'm going to go ahead and turn this
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into from an engrave layer the blue
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layer i'm just going to make sure that
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it's active
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and i'm going to go ahead and select one
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of the tool layers and you'll notice
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that it turns it
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orange and you'll also notice that there
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is no
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settings for this this is just basically
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used for text alignment those kind of
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things
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but let's say that we wanted um an inch
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on the top and the bottom and two inches
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on the sides
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so i'll show you how quick that can be
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done so we have our rectangle here
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we're going to say uh we're going to
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activate it
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and then we're going to come up here and
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we're going to say give me a one inch
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height
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and i'm going to duplicate it
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and then i'm going to grab one and this
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is where if you have your snap to
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objects on
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which is right here
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if you have your snap to objects on this
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is where it becomes very handy so
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all i got to do is grab anywhere on that
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rectangle
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and get it close to the other object and
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it'll snap right to it now i've got my
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guides
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for the top and the bottom let's make
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the guides for
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the sides so i'll go ahead and duplicate
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that i'm going to just bring it down
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here
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and i'm going to hit one of the things
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uh
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that you'll want to learn is if you if
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you learned how to use a rotate tool
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it's just the period
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key and that'll rotate that around
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okay and let's say that i snap that over
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to here
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and i can shorten it up if we want
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and this we want to make two inches wide
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and we snap that right to there and i'm
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going to duplicate that
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grab that and pull it over here
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so now we've got all of our guides that
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we need for our layout
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so the parameters were that we wanted at
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one inch off the top
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one inch off the bottom and two inches
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off the sides
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so now if we had some text that we were
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going to drop in here
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we select it and drag it in
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we can actually come up here and we can
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snap it right to that line
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we can drag this over here
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drag this over here
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got that done
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using the scroll wheel again i'm going
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to snap it to this line
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then we're going to come up here and
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we're going to go ahead and snap it
573
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,960
right there in that corner
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00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,600
there this over here
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00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:00,070
stretch this over here
576
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,200
and there we have it so now
577
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,000
this just gives you a simple example of
578
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,120
how you can use
579
00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,480
these tool layers
580
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,960
as guides rectangles basically that are
581
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,039
predetermined in size and that will snap
582
00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:17,039
to other objects
583
00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:19,520
where you can use those for layout
584
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,080
rulers or layout guides
585
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,360
and you don't ever have to worry about
586
00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,840
they'll never be output to your laser
587
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,159
tip number seven
588
00:22:28,159 --> 00:22:30,159
one of the things other than learning
589
00:22:30,159 --> 00:22:32,320
your cuts and layers palette
590
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:33,760
one of the other things that you're
591
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,760
going to have to set for your laser to
592
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,240
function
593
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,760
properly is this start from drop down
594
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,120
box
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00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,159
i will put a link up top so you can go
596
00:22:44,159 --> 00:22:44,799
to the
597
00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:47,919
video that i've already done on these
598
00:22:47,919 --> 00:22:50,000
settings absolute coordinates current
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00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,200
position
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00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,240
user origin
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00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,240
all three of them have their place but
602
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:57,280
in all honesty
603
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,240
i like the user origin the best
604
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,159
primarily because i can drive the laser
605
00:23:02,159 --> 00:23:04,640
head to wherever i want it to be
606
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,000
in the uh in whatever position
607
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,720
i want it to be hit the origin button on
608
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,000
the controller
609
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,280
and uh with that
610
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,600
i know that that laser is going to start
611
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,440
in that green box wherever it's
612
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,960
illustrated so
613
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,760
in my mind it's a lot more user friendly
614
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:24,240
uh
615
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,080
your the laser is not dictating
616
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,200
to you where it's doing its work you're
617
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,120
dictating to it where you want it to
618
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,240
work so
619
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,400
take a look at the uh the video that's
620
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:37,440
attached
621
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,559
and it'll go over all three
622
00:23:40,559 --> 00:23:43,200
um start from features absolute
623
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:43,919
coordinates
624
00:23:43,919 --> 00:23:47,679
user origin and uh current position
625
00:23:47,679 --> 00:23:49,039
okay we're going to go ahead and take
626
00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:50,960
this four inch coaster and we're going
627
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,120
to go ahead and place it on our bed it
628
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,039
really doesn't matter where it is
629
00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:56,559
because we're going to drive the laser
630
00:23:56,559 --> 00:23:58,559
head to where we want to work
631
00:23:58,559 --> 00:24:00,720
not where the laser dictates we need to
632
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,400
work so what we'll do
633
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,559
is i'll use the left and right arrows
634
00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:06,320
the up and down arrows on the rubida
635
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,520
controller
636
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,159
and we'll just go right arrow and then
637
00:24:10,159 --> 00:24:11,440
down arrow
638
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,039
and we'll just get this in the ballpark
639
00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:14,720
you can see the little red dot pointer
640
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:15,679
right here
641
00:24:15,679 --> 00:24:17,440
and you know we're going to just start
642
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,600
right there now
643
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,279
what i'm going to do from here is i'm
644
00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:23,039
going to go ahead and push
645
00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:25,360
the origin button on the rubida
646
00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,200
controller and that's going to set my
647
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,600
user origin
648
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,760
you want to make sure that you set user
649
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,880
origin in light burn as well
650
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,120
so what i'll do is i'll push the origin
651
00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:38,799
button
652
00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:41,279
that's done and now what we're going to
653
00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:42,559
do is we're going to go
654
00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:44,720
back to light burn and we're going to
655
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,880
select to frame this
656
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,840
uh frame that we did in the software and
657
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:50,720
that way
658
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,840
we can assure that when this uh
659
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,240
laser nozzle or laser head goes around
660
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,520
it will show us
661
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,039
um if we're square or not and then
662
00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:04,400
from that once we get this uh laid out
663
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,640
and make sure that it's all square
664
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,440
we know that the uh the symbol that
665
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,760
we're going to put in the middle of this
666
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,840
coaster is going to be right in the
667
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,279
middle we don't have to worry about
668
00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:15,919
being
669
00:25:15,919 --> 00:25:18,880
off off center or anything like that so
670
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,400
the next thing is we're going to go back
671
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:21,360
to light burn
672
00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:22,880
and we're going to use the frame
673
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,720
function to
674
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,720
make sure we've got this coaster where
675
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,880
it needs to be okay so we're getting
676
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,919
ready to frame
677
00:25:29,919 --> 00:25:33,919
our work one thing that we want to do to
678
00:25:33,919 --> 00:25:36,240
to frame our work here is we're going to
679
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,159
take our frame
680
00:25:38,159 --> 00:25:40,320
layer our black layer and turn it on for
681
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,679
just a minute
682
00:25:41,679 --> 00:25:43,440
and we're going to turn off our fill
683
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,120
layer our design
684
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:48,000
and so it shows that the black or the
685
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:48,640
frame
686
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,919
is selected and if we want to know what
687
00:25:51,919 --> 00:25:53,360
the laser is going to do remember you
688
00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,200
can always use the preview window and i
689
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,240
would highly recommend
690
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,760
that because what you see here is what
691
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,840
you're going to get this is exactly what
692
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,840
we want to happen
693
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,159
is to just have the laser follow
694
00:26:06,159 --> 00:26:09,440
the outline of the coaster and so now
695
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,000
i'm going to come
696
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,679
down here to to the this frame button
697
00:26:13,679 --> 00:26:17,200
and uh when i push this frame button
698
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,279
the uh laser head should follow
699
00:26:21,279 --> 00:26:23,679
the edge of the coaster now if it's a
700
00:26:23,679 --> 00:26:25,760
little bit misaligned you just tweak a
701
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,360
little bit and push the frame button
702
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,200
again and pretty soon after a couple two
703
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,400
or three tries
704
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:31,919
you've got it right on the money so i'm
705
00:26:31,919 --> 00:26:38,400
going to push the frame button
706
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:39,760
and it looks like we're in pretty good
707
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,679
shape we uh
708
00:26:41,679 --> 00:26:43,520
we've got it framed up if you need to
709
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,880
make an adjustment
710
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,960
um move your coaster a little bit and
711
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,159
hit this frame button
712
00:26:48,159 --> 00:26:50,080
and it won't take you any time at all to
713
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,320
get this lined up
714
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,799
here's tip number eight if for some
715
00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:56,080
reason the speed
716
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,279
of that laser head is going too fast
717
00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:02,320
for you to determine whether it's where
718
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,159
it needs to be
719
00:27:04,159 --> 00:27:06,960
go to your move tab if you don't see
720
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,240
your move tab
721
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,039
come up here to window and make sure
722
00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:12,720
that your move tab
723
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,679
is selected and then you'll see it if
724
00:27:15,679 --> 00:27:18,240
you go to your move tab
725
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,360
right here under speed this is where you
726
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:22,159
can change
727
00:27:22,159 --> 00:27:25,039
the framing speed of your laser so you
728
00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:25,440
can see
729
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,679
it's set at 100 millimeters per second
730
00:27:27,679 --> 00:27:29,520
which is pretty fast
731
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,520
it's hard to really see what's going to
732
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,440
happen so let's go ahead
733
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,559
and change this to let's say 25
734
00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:38,720
millimeters per second
735
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,000
and we'll frame it again
736
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,399
and uh see if it makes a difference so
737
00:27:44,399 --> 00:27:46,480
this is at 25 millimeters per second
738
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,549
we're going to frame it again
739
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:53,279
ah much better you can see that i can
740
00:27:53,279 --> 00:27:54,559
actually see
741
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:56,720
exactly where that red dot is following
742
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,840
the edges
743
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,159
of that slate coaster
744
00:28:02,159 --> 00:28:04,480
great so tip number eight is you can
745
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,880
change your framing speed right here
746
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,960
make sure you dial it in if you if you
747
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,559
turn it way down for some reason just
748
00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:12,559
remember you need to turn it back up
749
00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:14,720
uh for it to go back to a faster framing
750
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,720
speed tip number nine
751
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,760
is going to be this other frame button
752
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,440
that we have this is called the rubber
753
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,799
band function
754
00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,760
um basically what it means is if i
755
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,120
stretched a rubber band
756
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,440
over our design it's gonna basically
757
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,919
trace the outline so let's go to our cut
758
00:28:31,919 --> 00:28:33,440
layers
759
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,440
turn our frame off and our design
760
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,440
on select our design
761
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,960
make sure that's what we're going to get
762
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,960
and now what it's going to do is it's
763
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,320
actually going to trace the extent so if
764
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,159
you actually stretched a rubber band
765
00:28:50,159 --> 00:28:52,240
over this design
766
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,600
that's going to kind of give you the
767
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,279
outline on the
768
00:28:55,279 --> 00:29:08,950
slate coaster so let's do that
769
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,640
so this is a great feature for
770
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,799
unusually shaped designs
771
00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:19,279
where you really can't determine you
772
00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:20,159
know whether it's
773
00:29:20,159 --> 00:29:22,559
centered or not this will give you a lot
774
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:23,840
better idea than just
775
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,279
a square if i used this
776
00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:30,399
frame button you'll see that it just
777
00:29:30,399 --> 00:29:33,760
traces this square of the outside
778
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,200
extents of our design
779
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,480
compared to this frame button
780
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,399
this framing button is a great feature
781
00:29:40,399 --> 00:29:41,520
if you've if you're putting
782
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,279
something on wood and you need to make
783
00:29:43,279 --> 00:29:44,720
sure that you're missing a knot
784
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,799
or there's something that's critical
785
00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:47,919
with your design
786
00:29:47,919 --> 00:29:50,000
um you can make sure that you miss it
787
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,159
with this frame button so i use both of
788
00:29:52,159 --> 00:29:52,960
these
789
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,200
frame buttons a lot between these two
790
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,080
frame buttons
791
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,080
and you being able to change the speed
792
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,399
of your frame
793
00:30:00,399 --> 00:30:02,320
you'll be able to dial this right in you
794
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,480
shouldn't have any reason why you can't
795
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,279
center a design on your piece of work
796
00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:08,559
okay so we have
797
00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:12,080
our coaster all framed up we're sure
798
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,510
that this
799
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,960
symbol is going to be in the middle of
800
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,640
our coaster so
801
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,760
what we're going to do is we're going to
802
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,440
make sure that we have our frame off
803
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,960
because we don't want the fray
804
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,000
the laser to to do anything far as a
805
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,600
frame is concerned to make sure that our
806
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:28,640
engrave layer is
807
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,799
on then the next thing that you're
808
00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:32,000
always going to want to do
809
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,600
is preview i would get in the habit of
810
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,600
doing this because you'll be amazed on
811
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,760
how many times you'll catch yourself
812
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,240
um where the laser is going to do
813
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,919
something that you don't expect
814
00:30:43,919 --> 00:30:46,880
so this uh preview button up here is
815
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,320
your friend you want to use it
816
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,360
a lot and so you can see that
817
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,640
um it's basically gonna engrave go back
818
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,640
and forth and engrave this heart and paw
819
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:57,440
print
820
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,279
that's exactly what we wanted so we're
821
00:30:59,279 --> 00:31:01,120
good there it's gonna take roughly three
822
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,880
minutes to do
823
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,279
uh i've got now one thing that thunder
824
00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:06,159
laser does
825
00:31:06,159 --> 00:31:08,080
uh that i really like is they provide a
826
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,320
library a materials library
827
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,640
uh for many different things but they're
828
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,399
just guidelines one of the things that
829
00:31:14,399 --> 00:31:15,519
you're going to want to do is you're
830
00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:16,240
going to want to
831
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,200
learn how to tweak your settings in the
832
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,559
ruta controller
833
00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:22,080
and i'm going to show you how to do that
834
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,640
today so we're going to just take this
835
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,000
default setting
836
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,360
and we're probably going to need to
837
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,519
adjust it to dial it in
838
00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:32,000
one of the more frustrating things about
839
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:32,720
a laser
840
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,039
is all materials are just a little bit
841
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:37,120
different so just because they give you
842
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,960
a starting point for a particular
843
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,600
material doesn't necessarily mean it's
844
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:42,320
going to
845
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,440
work just the way you want it so
846
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,440
what you'll need to do is learn how to
847
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,960
make adjustments on your ruida
848
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,919
controller
849
00:31:49,919 --> 00:31:51,840
uh on the fly and that's what we're
850
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,120
going to do next
851
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,360
so what we want to do is we've previewed
852
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,960
it we know that uh
853
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,039
we're getting what we expect so i want
854
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:02,000
to send this file over to the laser
855
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,440
i'm going to come over here and i'm
856
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,000
going to hit send
857
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,960
okay you can name it and now it's
858
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,440
sitting over in the rubida controller
859
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,919
okay once we've sent the file over from
860
00:32:13,919 --> 00:32:15,039
the
861
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:17,279
light burn we're going to go in here and
862
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:19,200
say file
863
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,159
and the most recent file should be on
864
00:32:22,159 --> 00:32:23,919
top we're going to say enter to select
865
00:32:23,919 --> 00:32:25,600
that file
866
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,919
our design should show up and then our
867
00:32:27,919 --> 00:32:28,880
speed and
868
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,240
our power should show up as well
869
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,360
and then uh if we wanted to we could
870
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:36,720
always frame it here
871
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,320
we could push the frame button it does
872
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,720
the same thing as
873
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,399
the one in light burn except the one in
874
00:32:42,399 --> 00:32:44,320
light burn you can control a little bit
875
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,159
easier you can change the
876
00:32:46,159 --> 00:32:48,159
speed of the frame rate a little easier
877
00:32:48,159 --> 00:32:49,679
than you can
878
00:32:49,679 --> 00:32:52,080
from here so i usually frame most of my
879
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,120
projects
880
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,080
via light burn and not here and at this
881
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,240
point if everything else is ready
882
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,679
we're ready to go ahead and push
883
00:33:01,679 --> 00:33:06,789
start
884
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:09,840
as you can see that it's uh
885
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,240
it's pretty light and so what we're
886
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,200
going to do is i
887
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,080
is i uh hit the pause i'm going to come
888
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,919
up here to max power
889
00:33:17,919 --> 00:33:21,200
and it was set at 15 that's not quite
890
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,039
enough so we're going to come up here to
891
00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:24,799
maybe 18
892
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:32,630
hit enter and then hit start again
893
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,399
and you can say wow that really made a
894
00:33:34,399 --> 00:33:35,760
big difference
895
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,149
in our
896
00:33:40,159 --> 00:33:48,710
result
897
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,960
pause press again let's try a little bit
898
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,880
higher just for fun
899
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,440
max power 19
900
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:07,440
enter start
901
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:15,510
[Music]
902
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:25,589
max power let's go to 20
903
00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:29,839
enter start
904
00:34:29,839 --> 00:34:32,159
this is a great way to kind of dial in
905
00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:32,960
uh
906
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,800
your material settings what i normally
907
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,079
do is i pick a
908
00:34:36,079 --> 00:34:38,960
speed and leave it alone and then play
909
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,480
with the power and that way you're not
910
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,919
chasing your tail
911
00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:44,639
but you can see these rurita controllers
912
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:47,119
are very easy to use
913
00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:49,040
one of the biggest mistakes i made
914
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,560
probably for the first four or five
915
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,639
months i owned this laser
916
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,679
is i really didn't do hardly anything in
917
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:56,879
the controller
918
00:34:56,879 --> 00:34:58,880
once i learned that you could pause it
919
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,950
you could change your max power
920
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,310
really seamlessly
921
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,280
it made me die or it got me to dial in
922
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:10,240
materials
923
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:25,910
much much faster
924
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,960
there as you can see
925
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,040
where we started there wasn't nearly
926
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,119
enough power to do this
927
00:35:33,119 --> 00:35:36,079
uh slate coaster well instead of going
928
00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:38,000
back to light burn changing it there
929
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,280
resending it to the
930
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,400
to the uh controller and running it from
931
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:42,960
there
932
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,200
i just changed it in the controller on
933
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,640
the fly
934
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,320
and then once you found the setting that
935
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,880
worked for your material
936
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,520
just go ahead and change the setting
937
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,119
your power setting
938
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:57,760
in your file in light burn save it and
939
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,079
you're good to go but you can see
940
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:02,640
how much difference we went from 15 to
941
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,359
16 to 17 to all the way up to 20
942
00:36:05,359 --> 00:36:07,760
and you can see if we just kept going up
943
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,440
it would start falling apart on us so
944
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,680
just remember don't be afraid
945
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,040
to play with your power on the fly
946
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,560
this is a great way especially if you
947
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,160
try to do pictures or something like
948
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,000
this pictures are tricky
949
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,920
well as you can see if you learn these
950
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,920
top 10 tips
951
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,760
things can get a lot easier for you just
952
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,200
remember that
953
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,920
don't be afraid to explore some options
954
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,680
on your rarita controller
955
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,000
like i said before it probably took me
956
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,640
four or five months before i realized
957
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,560
that once i learned my way around that
958
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,280
controller life got a whole lot easier
959
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,119
and faster for me to dial certain
960
00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:44,400
settings in
961
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,839
one of the things that i hear all the
962
00:36:45,839 --> 00:36:48,160
time is you know what are your settings
963
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,400
well just because my settings work on my
964
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,359
machine
965
00:36:51,359 --> 00:36:53,680
doesn't mean those uh settings will work
966
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:54,800
on your machine
967
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,720
so you have to have the ability to go
968
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:58,320
ahead and
969
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,079
kind of adjust on the fly and make it
970
00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:01,359
your own
971
00:37:01,359 --> 00:37:03,839
i hope this information was helpful
972
00:37:03,839 --> 00:37:05,839
thanks so much for stopping by
973
00:37:05,839 --> 00:37:09,839
happy new year have a great day62596
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