LONGER How to: Use Scissors Mode on Lightburn for Longer Laser Engravers

LONGER How to: Use Scissors Mode on Lightburn for Longer Laser Engravers

ABSTRACT
Longer Ray5, Longer B1 and Longer Nano are efficient Laser Engravers capable of creating creations with various types of materials; moreover, they are fully compatible with Lightburn, which is an extremely versatile and powerful software. 

CONTENTS

1. Overlapping Shapes

2. Scissors Mode

3. Shape Merging

4. Conclusion

1. Overlapping Shapes
Lightburn allows you to create drawings and graphics directly from its interface, however in some cases it may happen that a drawing is composed of several parts that overlap each other. 

As shown in the image above, the larger square is not connected to the two smaller squares, but they are 3 distinct bodies. 
In fact, proceeding to cut the drawing you can see that the common part separates the 3 squares, making them get 3 separate squares instead of a single figure. 

2. Scissors Mode

To solve this problem, you can use a new feature of Lightburn, namely the "scissors" mode. This mode allows you to delete drawing segments without changing the figure, making it very convenient and practical. 

After selecting the scissors in the Lightburn side menu, just move the mouse over the part you want to delete; the segment will take on the red color, and clicking will delete it from the drawing. 

By repeating the operation for both segments in the figure, the 3 squares will finally be connected to each other, forming a single body. 

3. Shape Merging

At this point, proceeding with the cutting or engraving, finally the cut or engraved figure will be a single body. 

4. Conclusion
The "scissors" mode makes the drawing process within Lightburn much easier and more immediate, as it is possible to quickly and easily correct a drawing consisting of several overlapping parts, so as to make everything as a single figure.
In particular, the scissor mode turns out to be crucial when importing complex vector files (from Illustrator, CAD, etc.), as there are often overlapping lines or extra segments that need to be removed before cutting. 
Another good use is to join shapes and text, when you overlay text on a shape, or when you combine multiple shapes and want to remove the inner lines to create a single cut profile. 
Whenever there is a need to remove specific segments, the scissors mode is a very valid and functional ally, which makes the drawing process much easier. 

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