When it's selected, it will be drawn as animated dashes instead of solid lines, and handles will appear around the selection to let you change the size, position, or orientation. Click the name, or click and drag a rectangle around it to select it. Make sure you're still in Selection mode - the 'Select' tool should be highlighted. Click the 'Ok' button to close the preview.įor more information on the preview window see its page here Preview Window Changing text properties ¶ Spot checking the output like this is a good habit to get into, because you'll likely spot mistakes before you burn the project for real, saving time and material. You can also grab the slider and drag it around to see the cut at different points in time. Click the 'Play' button and you can watch a simulation of how the laser will run the job. The lighter red lines are showing the laser moving between the shapes (traversal moves), and the black lines are where the laser will burn. The preview window will pop up, showing the completed job, like this: To see how the laser will run your project, click the Preview button in the middle of the main toolbar: If you have your units set to Inches, you might see 3.9 in/sec, or 236 in/min. Depending on your settings, the '100.0' might be different - Diode lasers are less powerful than CO2 lasers, and run slower, so they tend to use mm/minute as units, so the same default value would display as 6000 mm/min. This tells us that the shapes on this layer will be drawn as lines, with 100 mm/sec speed, and 20% power. This is the "layer" that your text is on, and it holds the settings that will be sent to the laser for all the objects on this layer:
When you finish the text, you'll see an entry appear in the Cuts / Layers list on the upper right of the display. Next, click the mouse somewhere in the middle of the Edit window (the workspace) to get a cursor, then type your name:Ĭlick the 'Select' tool button on the top left of the edit window, or press Esc twice (once to finish entering text, and again to exit text entry and go back to selection mode). It normally lives along the left side of the main window: With LightBurn running, and an empty project, click the Create Text button shown below. This project will be a simple name tag, cut out around the letters, ideally made from thin wood or acrylic, but a piece of cardboard will do.
#FREE LIGHTBURN PROJECTS HOW TO#
We're going to go step-by-step through creating a small, simple project in LightBurn, from start to finish, to show you how to use a few of the basic editing tools, and give you a feel for how things work.īefore you start, make sure you have a laser set up in LightBurn (see Adding your Laser). Beginner Docs First Steps Making a Simple Project ¶
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