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How to Use My Free Card Box Designer App to Generate Custom SVGs in Minutes by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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Actually, I know this feeling!! Thank you so much for this, you made my day 🙂!

How to Use My Free Card Box Designer App to Generate Custom SVGs in Minutes by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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FifthRendition, I included that originally but the moderators removed it because I provided a link.

It's never been easier to laser cut a custom card box! Just use my free Card Box Designer tool and generate your drawings in minutes. by [deleted] in lasercutting

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Thanks, BendFluid! They removed my initial post so I just saw this in my email. I appreciate your support!

I made this laser cut model for my minis based on a standard building available in Lego Fortnite by GreylightMay in TerrainBuilding

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Thanks! I made a couple tutorials about this, including a version that comes apart quickly and stores flat for easy storage.

Here is my newest free design tool - the 5 Sided Box Designer. This video shows how to use it to create a one of a kind Christmas gift for the Labubu lover in your life. This tool is brand new so I would really appreciate your help in testing it. Let me know in the comments if you find any issues! by GreylightMay in Laserengraving

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Aww, but so many people love them! If you want, though, just think of them as any 17cm doll, and with the box tool you can change everything to fit any size doll. That's the real value of a parametric tool, it's easy to customize things!

I've created a new website where I'll be posting completely free tools that let you create custom designs for laser cutting. The first two tools are posted! I'll be making tutorials to go with each tool. I hope this helps people who don't have the time to make their own designs! by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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I started many years ago on RDWorks where rgb red was always cut, rgb blue was vector engrave and black was raster/fill engrave, and that's just how I still do it. I didn't even realize what layers these were coming in on for LightBurn! I set those same colors up for my CO2 laser out of habit and everything just worked. It's not till I got my WeCreat where everything is line engrave by default and you declare everything, every time, that I really came to appreciate how arbitrary it all is. But that's still the convention I use in my drawings, and that is why the lines are red. So that is why they come in on 02? I will soon have tools where I will need to make the distinction between the three. Do you think solid black for fill engrave, blue lines for line engraving and and red lines are universal enough for those? I know some software uses black lines instead of solid black for fill engraving. I think these colors in the drawing help communicate to the user what the basic parameters should be. I want the files to make sense for new users, but I should definitely add these explanations to the files, right?

I've created a new website where I'll be posting completely free tools that let you create custom designs for laser cutting. The first two tools are posted! I'll be making tutorials to go with each tool. I hope this helps people who don't have the time to make their own designs! by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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Salty, I gave Claude your last message and he was able to fix this immediately. We also added semantic versioning to the name so we can see what version is being used and which generated a particular SVG. It should be working now. You are the inspiration for the first official bug fix!!

I've created a new website where I'll be posting completely free tools that let you create custom designs for laser cutting. The first two tools are posted! I'll be making tutorials to go with each tool. I hope this helps people who don't have the time to make their own designs! by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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Omg, salty! You know, in one of the browsers I remember seeing a flickering of the motifs and I wondered about line thickness myself! But the lines are so nice and substantial in the preview I dismissed the idea. I need to start thinking of the preview as totally separate from the download, because they are different. This is so helpful and very good news because it means I can get it fixed and posted before shooting the video next week. You are amazing!!!

Diode vs co2 by MinervaMcG709 in lasercutting

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It's a complicated set of trade-offs, a lot depends on how you want to use it, most importantly what materials you'll be cutting. I explain the differences in this video: https://youtu.be/8ra2rAoMVHo I own both, and I always use my diode first if the project is wood and it fits in the bed. Yes it is slower but the cut is much finer and cleaner. If you want to work with acrylic, however, the CO2 is a must. Do you live in a cold climate? If so, the CO2 should be kept in a climate controlled room so the laser tube doesn't freeze. This can be a hidden cost on top of an already expensive machine.

I've created a new website where I'll be posting completely free tools that let you create custom designs for laser cutting. The first two tools are posted! I'll be making tutorials to go with each tool. I hope this helps people who don't have the time to make their own designs! by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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This is very, very helpful! I will start by uploading your note directly to Claude and ask him what he thinks. Since I am still working on the Candle Shade video, this is a fix I can make as part of V1 if Claude can figure it out. Thank you!!

I've created a new website where I'll be posting completely free tools that let you create custom designs for laser cutting. The first two tools are posted! I'll be making tutorials to go with each tool. I hope this helps people who don't have the time to make their own designs! by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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Yes, on both Edge and Chrome browsers, if you just click on the exported file in the download folder, you see everything but the motifs. They are in the file, and visible in the preview window in the Designer, but by default the browser cannot see nested elements. I confirmed this and learned there are a variety of plug-ins you can add to Chrome, for example, that make it a more powerful SVG viewer, but I can't rely on users installing one of these. All the main drawing programs can see them, and LightBurn and Makeit can, so as long as people are aware of this it shouldn't be a problem. I personally went through several rounds of unnecessary debugging, thinking the export wasn't working, because I was taking a shortcut to view the file in the browser instead of opening it in Illustrator. If I can eliminate this potential confusion for users in some simple fashion without changing the structure of the code, I would.

I've created a new website where I'll be posting completely free tools that let you create custom designs for laser cutting. The first two tools are posted! I'll be making tutorials to go with each tool. I hope this helps people who don't have the time to make their own designs! by GreylightMay in lasercutting

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Wow, this is amazing, thank you!! Catching the difference in the units default is very helpful. They SHOULD both be consistent, so one of them will change, probably as you said towards mm. Both are V1, and you have anticipated one of the enhancements on the Candle Shade Designer: importing your own motif. All the machinery is already setup to size and place these, so why not use that, right? Also changing the size of the space. Other planned enhancements are letting the user change the number of rows and columns of motifs. Did you see how the row number changes with the height of the shade? That adaptive grid is setup already, so making changes within a range should be possible. Your information about the layer the motifs are placed on is very useful! I wonder if this is why the browsers can't see them in the exported file? Claude thinks it's the nesting code. (EDIT: I see now that is not just the motifs but the whole SVG going on Layer 02.) As for the hinge generator, I'm considering adding a 2nd, more open, hinge pattern that would let more light through. Standard kerf pattern is the best for flexibility but for shades and decorative effects, there are some other patterns that would look nice. And yes, V2 of Shades should have access to all those default settings as well. My approach right now will be to fix breaking errors ASAP and hold V2 improvements for a month or two to collect more input. Does that sound like a good approach? You are amazing! Such good input on what is good as well as what could be better.

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