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I have been aware of the LB camera for a long time and just assumed [yep] that it was a gimmick but it obviously is not. This guy does some really amazing work with his camera and the video is not as annoying as some. I don't think that it will really work into my workflow, which I have 'perfected' over the years but I can see it working for a lot of people. I am more and more impressed with LB as I learn more about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqnGXgWQQFQ

It is a little gimmicky, but it's also a tool like any other.

We have a few customers who work with things like leather, where the material shape is not consistent. One in particular makes boots and belt buckles, and his wife makes jewelry, so the camera is extremely useful for them - He lays out the boot sections first, then the buckles, and then she goes after him, filling in the left over spaces with earrings, bracelets, etc. With the camera they can maximize the material use much more easily than they could before.

We also have a lot of folks using the system in schools, and there it's awesome - kids draw something with a sharpie, capture it, use the trace feature, then engrave it onto a cookie, their notebook, or even their phone case. It's a simple way to design something, it's quick, and it's a great "direct" kind of exposure to how powerful the tech is. Yes, it's a bit silly, but they don't seem to care.

Thank you Mr Oz- I am really liking LBurn and catching on fairly quickly. I have a training session with my Signshop peeps today to share the things I have learned about LB. They are fluent with Illustrator and FlexiSign so they catch on faster than this old dude. I set up a color table in Flexi for the LB layer colors and will experiment with smoothing our imports into LB- we use .ai and mostly the grouping and layer colors are preserved.