0:01 hi there welcome to lightburn this video is
0:05 going to walk you through setting up
0:08 your laser for the first time assuming
0:10 that you’ve never run lightburn before
0:11 so the first thing we’re going to do is
0:14 launch the application after the splash
0:18 screen you’ll get a basic help
0:21 walkthrough that’s just you know what
0:23 the next steps are going to be read
0:25 through this click ok the next thing
0:28 that lightburn does is brings you to
0:30 the device discovery wizard this is the
0:33 automatic path for figuring out what
0:35 type of laser you have if you want to
0:38 set up your machine manually you can do
0:40 that as well and we’re going to go
0:42 through that in a moment but the easiest
0:44 way to setup a machine is to connect it
0:47 by USB make sure that it’s powered up
0:49 and go through this process here to find
0:52 my laser process so I’m going to click
0:54 next and I have a couple of lasers
0:55 plugged in to my computer so it’s going
0:59 to scan for them see if it recognizes
1:01 them and it’s found two so one of them
1:04 here is my Rueda 6 4 4 2 it is a DSP
1:08 device the other one is my cohesion 3d
1:12 board which is currently flashed with
1:13 Smoothie where that device is a g-code
1:16 device and it’s found them both so I’m
1:20 going to start with the smoothy where
1:22 device your system will likely only have
1:25 one recognized controller select the
1:28 controller and hit add device I’m going
1:31 to choose this one because this is the
1:32 one I want to focus on for the moment
1:34 click Add
1:36 it will now ask me where is the origin
1:38 of your laser now with smoothie wear and
1:41 in fact with most g-code devices that
1:44 includes garble smoothie wear marlin you
1:48 should pick front-left as the origin if
1:51 your laser does have limit switches and
1:55 supports homing auto home on startup
1:58 should be selected if you have
2:00 an ELYX maker device or a 3d printer
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2:03 that doesn’t have limit switches one of
2:06 the open frame machines that’s just a
2:08 diode laser if it doesn’t home you may
2:12 want to turn this off you probably do
2:13 want to turn that off but for everybody
2:15 else leave this on if you have a DSP
2:19 device like a Rueda system you will
2:21 probably not see this option click Next
2:26 and so here it’s telling me what it
2:29 found so with the automatic setup light
2:34 Byrne will query the device itself for
2:36 sizes and so this smoothie where device
2:39 in the configuration is set to 200
2:42 millimeter by 200 millimeter with a
2:44 standard k40 that should be 300 by 200
2:48 if you have a Rueda device the bed size
2:51 will be taken from that as well and
2:53 should show up here if this is incorrect
2:55 you have the option to go back and fix
2:58 that for now I’m going to click finish
3:00 so now I have my smoothie where device
3:03 click ok the device is connected and
3:08 home and you can see down here in the
3:10 user interface this is the current laser
3:12 that I have selected
3:13 and this is the comport that I have
3:15 chosen and it’s automatic for many
3:18 things for some g-code devices you will
3:21 see the word choose here and what that’s
3:24 telling you is that you have to choose
3:25 the comport manually once you’ve chosen
3:28 it lightburn will remember it for the
3:30 future so this is the user interface of
3:33 lightburn these windows can be dragged
3:37 and resized if you want to change the
3:40 layout you are free to do so I can
3:42 undock these windows by grabbing their
3:44 title bar you can redock windows by
3:48 grabbing the title bar of the window
3:50 dragging it over another window until
3:52 you see the other window change color
3:54 and then release it and it will redock
3:56 you can also open up different windows
4:00 by clicking on these tabs you can move
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4:03 the tabs around if you want the tabs in
4:05 a different order you can also go up
4:08 here to the window menu and this will
4:11 show you which wood
4:12 you currently have active down here and
4:15 I can select these to turn windows off
4:19 and on if you for example ever lose your
4:22 cut palette window the palette along the
4:24 bottom there if you can’t find it go
4:27 back here make sure that is enabled a
4:29 common problem for some people is that
4:32 this window may end up being larger than
4:35 your screen and so the cut palette
4:37 window might be below the bottom of your
4:39 screen make sure that you don’t have too
4:41 much stacked over on this side if you do
4:44 you can remove windows undock windows to
4:47 try to vertically shorten the display so
4:52 we’re going to do just a quick overview
4:54 of what is in the UI and how its
4:57 arranged so over here we have the basic
5:01 tools for drawing so I can use the pen
5:04 tool to draw lines I can use the
5:07 rectangle tool to draw rectangles the
5:10 ellipse tool to draw circles or ellipses
5:14 this is the polygon tool which will let
5:16 you draw multi-sided polygons and then
5:20 we can create text as well I can’t spell
5:25 don’t mind that whenever you are in a
5:32 tool and you want to get out of the tool
5:35 for example when I was in the text tool
5:37 and I was done typing I hit the Escape
5:40 key and the Escape key first takes me
5:43 out of the active mode that I’m in here
5:46 so I’m no longer typing and if I hit the
5:48 Escape key again you’ll see over here it
5:51 puts me back into selection mode when
5:54 you are in selection mode if you hit the
5:56 Escape key it will unselect whatever the
5:58 current selection is so hitting the
6:00 Escape key multiple times in a row will
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6:02 get you out of whatever it is that you
6:05 were into that’s also true for example
6:07 if I’m creating a line so I’ve drawn one
6:10 line and now it’s expecting me to draw
6:12 the next one if I if this was the only
6:14 line that I wanted hit escape to end the
6:17 current line I’m still in line mode so I
6:19 can now draw
6:20 their line hit escape again takes me out
6:23 of the line mode now if I want to go
6:25 back to selection mode I can escape one
6:27 more time and it brings me back here you
6:31 can also just manually click on the
6:33 selection button to do that as well so I
6:36 can move between these various modes
6:40 let’s see what else so that is the
6:44 creation tools this button here allows
6:48 you to position your laser head by
6:50 jogging our sorry position your laser
6:52 head by clicking on the page so if I
6:55 wanted to move my laser to wherever this
6:57 circle is roughly I can in this tool
7:00 click here and my laser jogs to that
7:04 location you can click on corners you
7:07 can click on object it will jog the
7:10 laser around for you these tools down
7:13 here are offset weld and then the three
7:18 boolean operators then grid array and
7:22 radial array we’ll cover those in other
7:26 videos and they are covered fairly well
7:28 in other videos in fact but these will
7:31 highlight when certain conditions are
7:34 met so for example if I select this
7:36 shape and this shape now the various
7:40 weld and boolean operations become
7:42 active because they’re now valid the
7:46 things that I have selected can be
7:48 affected by those tools and so they will
7:51 light up along the top you have your
7:55 various editing options or menus so I
7:59 can create a new file I can open an
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8:01 existing file import artwork save save
8:06 as export all of the tools that are here
8:11 on this side are also in the Tools menu
8:12 the Edit menu has a few special things
8:16 like undo and redo select everything a
8:20 bunch of others settings and device
8:23 settings those are important and we’ll
8:25 cover those shortly arrangement of
8:28 objects the window menu that I touched
8:29 on before language menu
8:32 if English is not your first language
8:34 you can change the language in lightburn
8:36 by selecting one from this and then
8:38 of course the help so quick help in
8:40 notes is the first menu that we were
8:43 presented with when lightburn ran
8:44 that’s this the general usage page was
8:50 what came up when we started hotkeys is
8:52 the other page here that’s incredibly
8:55 useful and this shows you all of the
8:56 hotkeys that are not really covered
8:59 anywhere else and then online
9:03 documentation will take you to our
9:05 online website where the documentation
9:07 is hosted PDF documentation link will
9:10 download a PDF file of the documentation
9:12 and then our online video tutorials
9:15 which you’ve probably already found if
9:16 you’re watching this check for updates
9:19 is good if I click this button lightburn
9:22 will check to see if my current
9:24 version is up-to-date it is if it’s not
9:27 I’ll have the option to download a new
9:28 one and then license management this is
9:33 the page where you enter your license
9:36 key so you’ve probably already used this
9:38 page or at least seen it if you’re
9:40 running the trial you will see this and
9:41 it will say how long I have left in my
9:43 trial you can use this to deactivate
9:46 your current license on the current
9:48 machine enter your new license request
9:52 offline activation and so on so after
9:58 you’ve created your device if you need
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10:02 to make changes to it you can go back to
10:05 the devices button here and double-click
10:09 on your device in this list and then I
10:15 can pick again smoothie where how I want
10:17 to connect to it what I want to call it
10:20 how big it is I mentioned before that
10:22 because this is a k40 it’s actually 300
10:25 millimeters by 200 millimeters change
10:29 the homing and so on click finish and
10:31 those changes are saved and now you can
10:33 see that my bed size is larger because
10:35 I’ve made that change you can also do a
10:38 decent amount of that up here by going
10:41 into the device settings so if I click
10:44 on this
10:45 I can again change my width and height
10:49 origin and a bunch of other settings
10:51 that are specific to the device that
10:54 I’ve chosen if you have a Marlin based
10:58 system you will have the option to
11:00 change the baud rate here you also have
11:03 options that are specific to how lightburn
11:06 works for example if I want it to
11:09 run through white space when I’m
11:12 engraving images quickly I can change
11:15 this to specify a speed for which it
11:17 will traverse through that white space
11:19 the laser fire button this is something
11:23 that is useful for people who have a
11:25 diode laser that want to turn the laser
11:29 on at low power so they get a visible
11:32 beam for focusing if you have a co2
11:35 laser your beam is invisible do not use
11:37 this feature it is very dangerous and
11:40 then the return to finish position this
11:43 toggle and this setting lets you specify
11:47 where you want the laser to move to when
11:50 you’ve finished a job so after engraving
11:54 through these objects light burn will
11:56 send my laser back to this position I
11:59 can turn it off which means that the
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12:01 laser will just stay wherever it
12:03 finished or I can turn this on and I can
12:05 enter a value here where I want the
12:07 laser head to go when it’s done that is
12:12 the very very brief Cliff Notes version
12:15 of the lightburn UI and setting up your
12:19 device will cover a little bit more in
12:21 other videos thanks for watching
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