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Attempting to help a guy figure out / isolate a problem with his Epilog. I wasn't aware that Epilog used gray scale as power. Is there any way to bring that into RDWorks and get a similar image?

Never mind, brain fart day. Wasn't connecting gray scale to bitmap... Duuuhhh

Happy 2021, Dave... Thanks for your help on the Lightburn forum. Gene.

Gene, do you run Lightburn? A guy posted a test pattern, but he posted it in a lbrn file. I would love to convert it to at least a dxf, if not a cdr or an ai.

I do indeed- rarely open RDworks now days. Post it if you can and I will convert it- I have a lot of programs but not Corel.

Here you go. I have Corel for other things, so it's a convenience thing for me. No sense paying for another program if I don't need it, especially if it has an annual update fee. I export it to RDWorks to set some cutting parameters and cut orders and then it goes to the laser. Short of a few test patterns once in a while I don't do any design work in RDWorks.

It will be interesting to see what the new RDWorks redesign will be like. I've played with a beta that has a camera feature in it, and the redesign is supposed to be multi file, cut and paste, etc. More like modern design programs. Who knows.

Now the guy posts the Corel and svg files... Sheeeesh.

Well gene, I guess I need you to take a look at the lightburn file after all.

The Corel and svg files he posted are almost exclusively bitmaps. I can't open the lightburn file, but when I open the Corel, I have a little bit of text at the top and left, a red layer and a black layer. The last two being bitmaps. For the shading, the black layer may need to stay a bitmap, but I need to vector engrave / cut the red layer. To do that it needs to be lines, not a bitmap. I'm hoping he just didn't export it properly. Tell me what you think. If the black layer can be converted to lines, then i could mix and match between lines and bitmaps to see what comes out best when exported to RDWorks. Hell, at this point I'd take an rld file. I can at least work backwards from that.

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Check out this test file

I'll give it a try. the thing I liked about the one the guy got from ThingVerse is it had a few sections of living hinge as part of the test as well as cut test all in one run.