You will see on the top right it has now used the Black layer with Line Mode and set its speed & power. On the left-hand side, click on the square shape and draw a square. Just bear with me here.Īnother great thing about LightBurn is that you can draw and write within it. Each of the colours can represent a different set of speed/power levels, so you can have one part of your design very dark and another bit much lighter. But, it's easy once you get your head around it. When I said it looks intimidating, this was where I was baffled to begin with. You can use different layers with LightBurn Now your machine will be listed on the bottom right and the workspace will match your machine.ģ.
On completion of set – up, you will see a summary.
Standard machines such as the Yora 6550 and Yora 3018 do not have homing, so do not adjust. Then the origin and it will ask about Auto-Homing. Once set up, it will ask what you want to call it and check the dimensions of the work area. (Looks intimidating, I know, I avoided using LightBurn for 18 months or so when I got my first laser, but its not so complicated, I promise).įirst thing to do – click on Devices on bottom right and a box will open.Ĭlick Find My Laser (your box will be blank, I use LightBurn on everything now, so my machines are all listed).Ĭonnect via the USB cable and follow the prompts. You don’t just start this, you take off with it! Scroll down the page and choose the version you need.Īs with any download, just follow the steps to install the software.Ģ. LightBurn is easy to install and set up This opens the page that explains how the trial works. To download the trial click on Download / Trial at the top of the screen.
You can download the LightBurn software by going to the website You don’t even need to enter a credit card number to use it for 30 days, after that, you would need to buy a license. So here are 10 things you should know about. LightBurn has so many additional features and options, it can keep up with what you want to do. I’ve said it before and I will keep saying it, you’ve picked what are probably the best DIY laser engravers available today, if you’ve already tried either of them out with other software you know what they are capable of, you might just want a bit more from the software to catch up with your imagination. Perhaps you already got yourself a 6550 or 3018-Pro with laser module and have been using LaserGRBL up to now, or perhaps you’re still looking at what to get and what your software choices are.
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