LightBurn Tutorial 06 – Basics #2 Text and Offsetting

0:00 hey guys welcome to the next video in

0:04 the getting started with lightburn

0:06 series today we’re actually going to be

0:09 creating text and shapes using the lightburn

0:13 tools and this is some of my

0:15 favourite parts of lightburn and I’m

0:19 really excited to show some of these

0:20 tools now the biggest one is text

0:24 creation so to create text and lightburn

0:27 it’s pretty simple it’s like a lot

0:29 of other softwares we have a text create

0:32 and edit tool and when we click on this

0:35 it brings up the text bar now to show

0:39 the power of this I’m going to use a

0:41 script font which if you’ve ever tried

0:45 to do any sort of cutting with a font in

0:48 the past I’m sure you’ve been frustrated

0:51 because normally it doesn’t work very

0:53 well and I’ll show you guys why so the

0:56 first thing I’m going to do is click on

0:57 my workspace somewhere to get a cursor

1:00 going and I’m just going to type a word

1:05 for lack of a better word we’ll use

1:08 lightburn now the first thing we’ll do

1:14 is we’ll change the height of it now

1:18 notice the live editing and if you look

1:24 you’ll see that my font already looks

1:28 like it’s right for engraving or cutting

1:31 now this is because by default lightburn

1:35 has the weld option turned on

1:38 normally when your fonts come in they

1:41 they look like this so you end up either

1:43 cutting out letters in ways that you

1:46 wouldn’t want to like we wouldn’t want

1:48 that little guy cut out of the G all

1:50 right of the T or you end up with weird

1:54 not fully engraved spots like this spot

1:58 normally would be excluded from a scan

2:01 operation we don’t want that so by

2:05 default now life urn has the weld option

2:09 turned on and this is really exciting

2:11 because now even after it’s

2:14 we can still edit so I can change the

2:18 horizontal space or the kerning of our

2:22 font live and you notice it’s it live

2:26 weld so now we see how the vector from

2:30 the font is being affected here and then

2:34 eventually the B and the U and the L

2:38 start getting welded into their adjacent

2:40 letters this is probably the one coolest

2:45 thing that I’m the most excited about in

2:48 lightburn yet this this changes

2:51 everything with creating fonts it’s

2:54 pretty exciting the same thing with the

2:59 vertical spacing we can just move our

3:03 words up and down and we can change how

3:06 our words are aligned you can also live

3:14 change our font and it live welds

3:18 goodness this is just really really neat

3:21 so I’m gonna stick with the script font

3:24 that I picked here I’m not even gonna

3:25 try and say the word cuz I will put

3:28 written and we’re gonna move it over

3:30 here now the next thing we’re gonna do

3:34 is you know I’d like to turn this into a

3:36 plaque so I’m going to create a

3:40 rectangle to go around it

3:44 and you know I’m eyeball the size and

3:48 I’d like to change the size and the

3:53 positioning of this so we’ll click the

3:58 selection tool select our rectangle and

4:03 I want to make this 70 millimeters tall

4:10 but notice it changes with at the same

4:13 time and that’s because I have the

4:16 aspect ratio locked here with the

4:18 padlock that means it as I change the

4:21 width it’s going to proportionally

4:24 change the length or vice versa

4:27 I don’t necessarily want to do that

4:29 because I want this to be a whole number

4:32 and a specific number so I’m going to

4:35 click the lock and I’ve decided that 70

4:39 is too tall

4:40 it’s try 65 still a little too tall 60

4:46 50 50 50 is the right number and I think

4:51 200 is probably the right number for the

4:54 length now I want to make sure that

4:56 these are centered up with each other so

4:58 I’m going to select everything and click

5:02 the align selected objects to their

5:05 vertical centers button so that shifted

5:09 the words and align selected objects to

5:13 their horizontal centers button and then

5:16 that’s the nerd everything so now the

5:20 rectangle and our font are centered to

5:26 each other and now for the last thing I

5:30 have a CNC machine and that inherently

5:34 makes me hate square corners everything

5:36 should be curved because curves look

5:38 nice and there’s a really easy way to

5:41 radius these corners in light burn and

5:44 that’s with the shape properties and if

5:47 shape properties isn’t somewhere over

5:51 here it’s really easy to enable you go

5:54to window and select shape properties

5:57 and in the shape properties box there’s

6:02 this option called corner radius so the

6:07 easy way to do it is to click the up or

6:10 down arrows and we can change the size

6:12 of the corner radius that looks pretty

6:16 good

6:18 and you know now we’re ready to go one

6:25 last thing though I think when I finish

6:30 this out I think I want to make another

6:36 second line for our actual cut so we can

6:39 etch this one in to make lightburns

6:43 stand out a little more and add a little

6:46 bit of size to our plaque so what if we

6:49 highlight that and we use our offset

6:52 shapes tool and I’m going to offset it

6:57 outward ten millimeters

7:07 we’ll leave the quarter style is round

7:15 these are tied together I can’t change

7:18 the corner style but that’s okay that’s

7:23 kind of how I want it so I hope you guys

7:26 picked up some good things from this

7:27 video and this one we covered creating

7:30 shapes and creating text and editing it

7:33 on the fly thanks for watching and be on

7:38 the lookout for the next lightburn

7:39 tutorial