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In this video we are taken step-by-step through the process of getting an Ortur Laser up and running with LightBurn on both Mac and Windows. We will also be taken through a quick first project to learn some of the basic tools and workflow within LightBurn.
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Transcript for Setting Up the Ortur Laser With LightBurn
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0:02the laser master ii pro is a diode-based
0:04laser engraver from orter with a work
0:06area of 400 by 400 millimeters this is a
0:09higher end model with built-in flame
0:11detection an emergency stop switch and a
0:14sensor to kill the laser if the machine
0:15is bumped while engraving the laser
0:17master ii pro comes standard with end
0:19stops which allow the laser to
0:20automatically home to the same place
0:22which is great for repeatability this
0:24will also allow you to fully take
0:25advantage of lightburn’s different
0:26origin modes giving you the most control
0:28of how you run your jobs in this video
0:30we are going to be getting the orter
0:32laser master 2 pro up and running with
0:34lightburn i’ll take you through the
0:35setup and installation with windows as
0:37well as mac and then we will go through
0:39a short beginner tutorial to get you on
0:41your way timestamps will be below so
0:43that you can skip around as needed
0:49for the windows install the first thing
0:51we’re going to need to do is install the
0:53stm micro driver this is provided by
0:56orter and i’ll have a link in the
0:58description over to this page so you can
0:59make sure you are downloading the
1:01correct thing there is a version for
1:02windows 8 to windows 10 as well as a
1:05version for windows 7 and you’ll need to
1:07know whether you are running a 32-bit or
1:09a 64-bit operating system 64-bit is sort
1:12of the standard for most modern
1:14operating systems but to confirm this if
1:16you go down to the start menu and type
1:18in the word system and click system
1:21information it will open up a window and
1:24in that window you’ll easily be able to
1:26determine the operating system you’re
1:28currently running if you don’t know next
1:30is system type as you can see here mine
1:33says i am running a 64 based pc and so
1:36that confirms that we need the
1:38appropriate 64-bit version of that
1:40driver
1:41once confirmed click on the driver that
1:44will download the executable file that
1:46we will need to run to get this
1:48installed
1:53open up that file
1:57and go ahead and run through it like you
1:58would if you were installing anything on
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2:00your computer
2:03it will ask you for a username and a
2:05company name don’t be alarmed there’s
2:07nothing special that needs to go here
2:08and you can quite literally put the word
2:11user in the name company and it will let
2:13you go ahead and get beyond this and
2:15install the driver
2:18as you can see it says stm electronics
2:21ready to use we don’t need to have it go
2:23online and check for a new version so on
2:25this part just go ahead and click no
2:26skip this step and the driver has been
2:29successfully installed now that we’ve
2:31got the correct driver installed we can
2:32plug the power cable into our laser
2:35engraver as well as the included usb
2:38cable one end will go into the machine
2:40and the other end will go into our
2:42computer then to power on the machine
2:44just hold down the power button for five
2:46seconds and it should auto home if you
2:48do have a different orator machine you
2:50might notice that your control panel
2:52looks slightly different but it should
2:54operate in the same way there are two
2:56leds on the control panel a red and a
2:58blue when the machine is powered on you
3:00should see a solid red light and when it
3:03is plugged into the computer you should
3:05see a solid blue light if for some
3:07reason you don’t see that blue light
3:09make sure the usb cable is plugged in
3:11correctly and you can always try to
3:12unplug and plug it back in but you
3:14should be seeing both a solid red and a
3:16solid blue light with the machine
3:18powered on and plugged into our computer
3:20we’re now ready to install lightburn to
3:22do this we’ll head over to the downloads
3:24page for windows there is going to be a
3:2764-bit as well as a 32-bit version of
3:30lightburn whichever version we
3:31discovered a moment ago is the version
3:33we’re running when we install the driver
3:35will be the version of light burn that
3:37you’ll want to download so in our case
3:39it is the 64 bit clicking on it will
3:42save the executable file
3:44and once it’s downloaded go ahead and
3:46click on that to open up the installer
3:50once the installer opens up it will
3:51prompt you through the installation
3:53process you just need to click next
3:55throughout all of
3:58this and when you get to the final page
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4:01you’ll see there’s a couple of options
4:03for a specific driver that’s going to be
4:05for larger dsp machines we don’t need to
4:07worry about any of that so just select
4:09finish which will launch light burn
4:13the first time you open up light burn
4:14you’re going to be greeted by the device
4:16window it’s going to be blank which is
4:18normal we’ll need to add our orter
4:20machine into light burn and to do this
4:22we will click on the find my laser
4:24button which will open up a prompt
4:26window this window will remind you to
4:28make sure your device is connected via
4:30usb it should be both connected via usb
4:33as well as powered on which we did cover
4:35in a previous step when you click next
4:37lightburn is going to scan your computer
4:39to see if it detects any laser engravers
4:41attached to your machine if for some
4:43reason you don’t see your device listed
4:45here double check that you installed the
4:48driver we covered earlier and that it
4:49installed correctly and then also try
4:52power cycling your laser engraver as
4:54well as unplugging and plugging in the
4:56usb cable again after a brief moment we
4:59should see our device listed as you can
5:01see here it says under device info it’s
5:03found one machine that is running grbl
5:06firmware with a work area of 400 by 400
5:08millimeters it is a g-code type device
5:11connected via serial usb all we need to
5:14do on this page is select add device the
5:16next page will have us name it something
5:18i just went ahead and named it what the
5:20specific engraver is called if you’re
5:21gonna be running multiple machines you
5:24will definitely want to name it
5:25something specific so that way you know
5:27which device you are connected to it’s
5:29also a good idea to confirm that the x
5:31and y axis length is correct right here
5:34400 by 400 millimeters is spot on to
5:36what it’s supposed to be so once we’ve
5:37confirmed that we can click next
5:40on this page it’s going to ask us the
5:42where the origin of our laser is for the
5:44laser master 2 pro it’s going to be the
5:46front left and that’s going to be the
5:47same for
5:48most g-code devices so you will not want
5:50to change that the laser master ii pro
5:53also has end stops so we’ll want the
5:55auto home your laser on startup enabled
5:57if you have a different orter machine
5:59that doesn’t have end stops make sure
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6:00that you disable this before going on to
6:03the next page this is just a summary
6:05showing all of the settings we just
6:06agreed to and we can select finish on
6:08that
6:13once that closes you will see now the
6:15laser master ii pro is listed in our
6:17device list it says grbl and we can go
6:20ahead and click ok which will allow us
6:22to then go into light burn
6:25to confirm connectivity you should see
6:27in the right laser window it’s saying
6:29ready which just means that light burn
6:32is detecting the machine and that it is
6:34connected and ready to run and in the
6:36console you can also see that lightburn
6:38has actually read a little bit of
6:39information about the machine off of the
6:41controller
6:43if at some point you open lightburn and
6:45notice that the laser says disconnected
6:47instead of ready but it’s powered on and
6:49plugged in it’s possible that your
6:51computer’s assigned a different com port
6:53to it and so next to devices in that
6:55same laser window there’s a drop down
6:58i’ve only got the option for com3
7:00because i’ve only got one thing plugged
7:01into this computer but if you were to
7:03see let’s say com3 and then com5 and
7:06com3 isn’t working it’s a good idea to
7:09select the other com option and see if
7:12at that point the laser status changes
7:14from disconnected to ready
7:18for mac os you won’t need to install any
7:20drivers so we’ll start off with plugging
7:22the power cable into our machine
7:24followed by the included usb cable one
7:27end will go into the controller and the
7:28other end will go into your computer
7:31then hold down the power button for five
7:32seconds this will power on the machine
7:34and trigger the homing sequence if you
7:36have a different order model you might
7:38have a slightly different looking panel
7:40but it should operate the same way there
7:42are two leds on the controller one red
7:45for power and one blue that means that
7:47the controller is connected to your
7:49computer so you’ll want to make sure
7:50that you see both of those leds if for
7:53some reason the blue is not lit up go
7:55ahead and unplug the usb cable and try
7:58plugging it back in because you do want
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8:00to make sure you see both the red and
8:02blue led before moving on
8:04with your machine connected to your mac
8:06and powered on it is time to download
8:09and install light burn to do this we
8:11will head over to the downloads page and
8:13scroll down to where we see the mac os
8:16version
8:17clicking on that will download the disk
8:19image needed to install light burn for
8:21your mac
8:24once downloaded if you click on that it
8:26will open up a finder window with your
8:28applications folder and lightburn to
8:30install it just drag lightburn into the
8:32applications folder and it will copy
8:34that to your applications
8:37after installing or updating burn on mac
8:39if you try to run light burn from launch
8:41pad you’ll get this pop-up saying that
8:43it can’t be opened this will only happen
8:45the first time that you install light
8:47burn or update it and try to run it so
8:49what you’ll need to do is click the show
8:51and finder option which will open up
8:53your finder window with all of your
8:55different applications and then if you
8:57scroll down to where you see light burn
8:59and right click on light burn
9:02and select open
9:05there will be another pop-up that will
9:07allow you to then choose to open
9:09lightburn and once you do this the first
9:11time again you can launch it normally
9:13from launchpad it’s just the first time
9:19the first time you run lightburn you’ll
9:20be greeted by the device window which
9:22will be empty we’ll need to add our
9:24laser into light burn to do this we’ll
9:27head down to find my laser which will
9:29open up the device discovery wizard
9:31it’ll remind you that your engraver
9:33should be hooked up via usb and based
9:36off our previous step it should also be
9:37powered on
9:39clicking next will have lightburn then
9:42scan your computer to see if it detects
9:44any machines connected to your computer
9:46if you get to this next window and it
9:48doesn’t find your machine go back and
9:50make sure you see both the red and blue
9:52light meaning it’s powered on and
9:54plugged in and it’s not a bad idea to
9:56also try power cycling the machine and
9:59unplugging and plugging it back in
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10:01as long as your machine is both powered
10:03on and connected via usb lightburn
10:06should have no problem detecting it when
10:08it does scan your computer and as you
10:10can see here it did find the laser
10:12master ii pro and it’s got some info
10:14saying that it is running grbl firmware
10:17with a work area of 400 by 400
10:19millimeters and it is a g-code type
10:22machine that is connected via serial usb
10:26when you see your device select add
10:28device and then it will have you on the
10:30next page name your device if you have
10:32multiple machines this is even more
10:34important you want to make sure that you
10:35can easily identify which machine you’re
10:37selecting i’ve only got one laser master
10:402 pro so i’m just going to name it the
10:41actual name of this specific model and
10:44then you’ll also want to just confirm
10:46that the work area that it has grabbed
10:48is correct 400 by 400 millimeters is
10:50spot on for this machine so i can just
10:52choose next
10:55this page will have you choose the
10:56origin for your laser by default it
10:58should have the front left selected
11:00which is correct for the laser master 2
11:03pro as well as most g code machine so if
11:06you don’t know
11:07where your origin is your best bet is to
11:10leave it at the front left because
11:11changing it can do all sorts of funny
11:13things with your
11:15jobs later on and then auto home your
11:17laser on startup should be enabled for
11:18the laser master ii pro because it has
11:20end stops if you have a different orter
11:22model that doesn’t have end stops you’ll
11:24want to make sure you uncheck that
11:25before moving on
11:28this next page is just a summary of the
11:30things that we selected as well as the
11:32things that detected everything looks
11:34great here so we can select finish
11:37and now in the device list you’ll see
11:39your device listed as well as it says it
11:42is a grbl machine and we can choose ok
11:46which will close out of this and
11:47automatically grab that one device
11:51in the laser window you’ll probably see
11:53that it says disconnected on all macs
11:55that i’ve installed light burn on it
11:57does start off by staying disconnected
11:59and the easy way to get your device
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12:01connected is to just close out a light
12:03burn open light burn up again and then
12:06it should auto detect and connect to
12:08your machine as you can see now it says
12:10ready and this is just the first time
12:11when you’re installing every time after
12:13that as long as your device is plugged
12:15in and powered on and it’s in the same
12:17com port then it should have no issues
12:20auto connecting and in console we can
12:23see also that light burn was able to
12:25grab some information off of the
12:26controller if at some point you open
12:28light burn and notice that it says
12:30disconnected in the laser window but
12:32you’ve confirmed that the machine is
12:34powered on and plugged in it’s possible
12:36that your computer has assigned it a
12:38different com port in that same little
12:40window next to devices there is a drop
12:42down menu and you can see all of the
12:44different com port options and so you
12:46can go through the different com ports
12:48for mac i did have to close out of light
12:51burn once i selected the new one and
12:53open it again for example this
12:56one two three four five six uh usb modem
12:59is the correct com port but after i
13:01selected it it’s still not connecting so
13:04when i closed out of light burn open it
13:06back up again it now says ready and it
13:09has connected to the laser
13:13now that light burns installed and our
13:15machine is connected we’re going to run
13:16through a small project engraving some
13:19text this will sort of teach you some of
13:21the basic tools as well as help you with
13:23beginning to gain a bit of familiarity
13:26with the whole layout and workflow of
13:28using lightburn
13:30we are going to start off with our
13:31design so we’ll head over to the left
13:33toolbar
13:34and select the text tool that’s the icon
13:37that is the letter a
13:39clicking that will activate the text
13:40tool and then if you go over to the
13:42workspace you can click anywhere and it
13:45will turn into a cursor where you can
13:47then type in your name or whatever word
13:49you’re going to want to be using for
13:51this project to exit the text tool and
13:53to go back to the select tool we can
13:55either go to the toolbar on the left and
13:57select the top mouse pointer or if you
13:59hit the escape key on your keyboard
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14:01twice that’ll also get you out of that
14:03mode and back into select mode
14:06heading to the top right window that is
14:08the cuts and layers window where we will
14:11see specific information about our
14:13design if we were to run this job you
14:15can see the speed it would currently be
14:17running at the power the mode what layer
14:20color layer that it is pertaining to
14:22right now we’ve only got the black text
14:25layer so this is those settings and then
14:28on the bottom you can make some changes
14:29like if you want to speed it up or slow
14:31it down change your power or how many
14:35times you’d like to run a pass right now
14:38we don’t need to worry about that and we
14:39can just leave those default values
14:44if you head up to the top toolbar there
14:45is an icon that looks like a computer
14:47screen or a monitor that is the icon for
14:50preview and if you click on that it will
14:52open up the preview window that will
14:53show you the output of your job if you
14:55were to run it right now the black lines
14:57represent where the laser would engrave
14:59the thin red lines represent the travel
15:01movements and if you click play in the
15:03bottom right you can actually see a
15:05simulation of this job being ran this is
15:07a really cool window and it’s a great
15:09way to make sure what you think is going
15:10to happen based off the settings you
15:12give in light burn is what is actually
15:14going to be happening
15:20if we click on the text that we
15:21previously typed we’ll see in the top
15:24toolbar an area that pops up with a
15:26bunch of options to configure our text
15:28you can do bold italicized all uppercase
15:31different sizes different spacings and
15:34you have access to all of the fonts that
15:36are installed on your computer so
15:37there’s already going to be a ton of
15:39options but if there is a specific style
15:41you’re looking for and you download it
15:42off of the web and install it on your
15:44computer you can then access it from
15:46within light burn scrolling through the
15:48different font options you can see your
15:50text update in real time which is a
15:52really great way to make sure that you
15:54like the way a certain font looks with
15:56the text and you’re getting sort of the
15:58desired look that you’re going for
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16:02if you want to undo or redo a snap there
16:05are a backwards and forwards arrow in
16:07the top toolbar that you can use
16:09additionally there are hotkeys control z
16:11will be to undo and control shift z will
16:14redo the last action
16:17heading back over to the cuts and layers
16:18window we’re going to change the mode
16:20from line to fill we’ll do this by just
16:22clicking where it says line to open up
16:24the drop down menu and then selecting
16:26fill
16:27after doing that if you head over to the
16:29preview window again you can see the
16:31update of what that’s going to do and so
16:33with line the laser was just going to
16:35quickly trace an outline of all of our
16:38letters and with fill the laser is going
16:41to be going in a back and forth pattern
16:43and filling in all of the text
16:47in the playback window you also have the
16:49ability to adjust speed because it is a
16:52pretty long engraving in comparison to
16:54the outline so if you go you know 20x
16:56speed you can quickly see what the
16:58entire job is going to be doing
17:01next we’re going to be adding an outline
17:03to our text using the offset tool to do
17:05this we’ll click on our text to make
17:07sure it’s active you’ll know it’s active
17:09because of the moving squiggly lines and
17:11then in the left toolbar the o icon is
17:14for the offset shapes clicking on that
17:16will open up the offset window and you
17:18can already see that it has applied a
17:20five millimeter outward offset by
17:22default and there are quite a lot of
17:24options within this dialog box that you
17:26can configure whether you want the
17:27offset to be inward outward as well as
17:30playing around with some different
17:32styles there’s really not a right or
17:33wrong and you can also choose the
17:35distance of the offset this can be done
17:37by using the arrows on the right of the
17:40box by typing in a number manually or if
17:42you mouse over the offset distance text
17:45box you can actually use the scroll
17:47wheel on your mouse to quickly and
17:49easily scroll between different offset
17:51sizes play around with this i’m going to
17:53go ahead and do a
17:55outward round three millimeter offset
17:59there’s no right or wrong and it just
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18:00really is up to you as far as the look
18:03you’re going for once you’ve applied the
18:05offset we want to then click on just the
18:08outline to make the outline active and
18:10then going down to the colored bar on
18:12the bottom these are different layer
18:14options so we will choose a different
18:16color i’m going with red once we’ve done
18:19that we can now see in the cuts and
18:21layers window we’ve actually got two
18:23layers now we’ve got the initial one
18:25which is the black color with fill which
18:28is going to be our
18:30our text and then we’ve got the new red
18:32one which is for the outline
18:36going to the preview we can see once
18:38again what is going to be happening
18:39we’ve still got that fill on the inside
18:41but the outside outline that we just
18:44created is just going to be a line that
18:47is an outline of the text
18:50now that we’ve got our design we want to
18:52set the speed and power in the cuts
18:54layers window i’m going to start by
18:56selecting the black fill layer and in
18:59the bottom of that window i’m going to
19:01change the speed from the 6000
19:03millimeters per minute to 3000 and the
19:06power down to 15 percent
19:09then for the line i want that a little
19:11bit darker so i’m going to drop the
19:12speed from 6 000 millimeters per minute
19:15down to 2000 millimeters per minute and
19:18i’m going to increase the power from the
19:2120 it was at up to 35 percent now
19:24depending on the machine you’re using
19:26and depending on the material that
19:27you’re engraving this on to i’m using
19:29the orter laser master ii pro and some
19:32balsa wood you might need to slightly
19:34change or tweak these settings but this
19:36should at least be a safe place to start
19:38and at least run this initial job
19:41next we’re gonna head over to the laser
19:43and grab the piece of material that
19:45we’re gonna be engraving as mentioned
19:47i’m using a piece of balsa wood this is
19:49just a thin two millimeter thick piece
19:51place that in your work area and then
19:54grab the head of the laser and pull it
19:56on top of that material
19:58lifting the acrylic cover out of the way
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20:01your laser will come with some sort of
20:03an adjustment tool for the laser master
20:05ii pro it is this cylinder that we will
20:07then need to place underneath the head
20:09of the laser
20:12before loosening the two screws that
20:14hold the laser in place there’s one on
20:16the left and one on the right
20:19that will allow us to drop the laser on
20:21top of that cylinder so that way we have
20:24the correct focal length
20:28once it’s in place i recommend using one
20:30hand to hold the laser against the
20:32gantry and then your other hand to
20:34tighten those two screws back in place
20:39once you’ve made sure that the head of
20:41the laser is secure you can remove the
20:43cylinder measurement tool and drop the
20:45acrylic cover back down now that we’ve
20:48got the height of our material set
20:49correctly we’ll want to hop back over to
20:51lightburn to set the job origin in
20:53lightburn there are three different
20:55options for your job’s origin there are
20:57absolute coordinates user origin and
21:00current position for a machine like the
21:02orator laser master ii pro that has
21:03limit switches the easiest option is
21:05going to be to use the absolute
21:07coordinates taking this directly from
21:09our documentation that i’ll also have
21:10linked in the description with absolute
21:12coordinates the page grid you see in the
21:14main editing window represents your
21:16machine’s work area anything you place
21:19in that area will be cut in the
21:20corresponding place on your machine so
21:22in this specific example with the light
21:24burn text that i’ve created if i have
21:26this centered within light burn in my
21:28workspace it will be centered when i go
21:30to engrave it on my machine if i move it
21:33higher up it will engrave higher up on
21:34my machine so how i place it within
21:37light burn is exactly how it is going to
21:39be placing it on the machine
21:42if you have a different or machine that
21:44happens to not have limit switches the
21:46next easiest start from option is going
21:48to be using the current position also
21:51reading this from our documentation with
21:53the current position your job is going
21:55to cut relative to the current position
21:58of the laser head when you hit the start
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22:00button you use the job origin grid
22:02control in the laser window to tell
22:04lightburn how you want to position the
22:06job relative to your laser for example
22:08if you use the center
22:10dot in the job origin that means that
22:14light burn is expecting you to have
22:15positioned your laser dead center in the
22:18middle of your work piece and if you
22:20have it on the bottom left for example
22:22it’s expecting the head of your laser to
22:24be on the bottom left of your work piece
22:30as mentioned absolute coordinates is the
22:33easiest to use and that is what we are
22:35going to be using on the laser master 2
22:37pro so now that we’ve got that figured
22:40out we need to position our material to
22:43make sure that when the job runs it’s
22:45going to be engraving on our material
22:47and not on our work surface to do this
22:49we are going to press the square framing
22:52button that is found in the laser window
22:54doing this the head of your laser will
22:56move to the area it’s going to be
22:57engraving and it will do an outline of
23:00the area that your engraving is going to
23:02be within i’ll typically run the framing
23:05a few times and adjust the piece of
23:07material each time i run the frame until
23:09i feel like i’ve gotten it centered on
23:11my material or of course if you don’t
23:13want it centered where you want the
23:14engraving to be on your piece of
23:16material
23:17now the framing will get us pretty close
23:19but it won’t show us exactly where the
23:21laser is going to be and so we can
23:24actually enable the laser when we’re
23:25doing the framing to do this we’ll head
23:27up to the top toolbar to the device
23:30settings which will be the icon of the
23:32screwdriver and the wrench and if we
23:33click on that on the right side under
23:36other options there is an option that
23:38says enable laser fire button
23:41we’ll want to check that to make sure
23:43it’s green and enabled
23:46click ok to close out of
23:48this and then you will need to restart
23:51lightburn to enable this i recommend
23:53when you click escape of course save
23:55your job to make sure that you can open
23:57it up and you don’t lose any of the
23:58settings that you’ve done so far
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24:01once you reopen lightburn if you go to
24:03the move window which is right next to
24:06the cuts and layers window there is
24:08going to be a new option that says power
24:11with a fire button next to it i
24:13typically just set the power to one
24:14percent that’s more than enough to be
24:16able to see the laser and not have any
24:19risk of damaging or actually running an
24:21engraving into your workpiece when you
24:23don’t want to and you can trigger this
24:25by clicking the fire button and that
24:27will turn the laser on and then when you
24:29click the fire button again it will turn
24:31the laser off
24:33next let’s open up our project again if
24:36you go under file recent projects you
24:38will see your project that you created
24:41there and now that we’ve got that fire
24:43mode enabled we can do something pretty
24:45awesome if we hold down the shift key on
24:47our keyboard and click that same framing
24:49button it’ll run that framing but this
24:52time it will have the laser on the one
24:54percent power that we set and so what
24:56this will allow us to do is really hone
24:58in the positioning of our job before we
25:01run the engraving
25:03when you feel like you’re happy with the
25:05positioning of the framing that you’ve
25:07been running all that’s left is to hit
25:09the start button that is in the laser
25:11window and that will start the engraving
25:13as always make sure that you are staying
25:15around and watching the job the entire
25:18time if for some reason you notice that
25:20it is not engraving or it’s not as dark
25:23as you would like the settings were for
25:25this specific machine but depending on
25:27the material you’re using or if you’ve
25:28got a different laser you may need to
25:30slow down the speeds and increase the
25:33power
25:37after a few minutes the job will
25:39complete and you should be greeted with
25:41your finished engraving this is a great
25:43first step in learning how to use your
25:44laser with light burn the next steps
25:46that i would recommend are looking
25:48through the official light burn
25:49documentation signing up for the light
25:51burn forums and looking at the many
25:53tutorial videos available on our youtube
25:56channel
25:57links for each of the mentioned
25:58resources will be in the description of
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26:00this video
26:02if you’re a machine manufacturer and
26:04would like us to make a video like this
26:06about your machine please contact us at
26:08business at lightbridgesoftware.com
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