LightBurn Tutorial 27 – Setting Up The xTool D1 Laser With LightBurn

0:02the x tool d1 is a diode based laser

0:05engraver with a work area of 432 by 406

0:09millimeters and is available in both the

0:115 watt and 10 watt variant the 10 watt

0:13version uses two separate lasers that

0:15are combined into one path giving you

0:17much higher output it is a very rigid

0:19machine that is constructed from

0:21aluminum but uses steel for both the

0:22motion wheels as well as the shaft that

0:24they ride on the d1 also has built-in

0:27belt tensioners for easy adjustment a

0:29kickstand style arm that’s built into

0:31the laser head for setting the correct

0:32focal distance and a positioning laser

0:34that projects a red x to help with

0:36framing as well as aligning your work

0:38through a firmware update the x tool is

0:40now compatible with light burn in this

0:42video we’ll go through the process of

0:43getting your d1 up and running with

0:45light burn on both windows and mac as

0:47well as a short tutorial project this

0:49project will help you in learning some

0:51of the more common tools used in light

0:52burn as well as the general workflow

0:54timestamps will be in the description

0:55below so that you can skip around as

0:57needed

1:04before we do anything else we need to

1:06install the ch340 driver we have a link

1:09to this in our official documentation

1:11but i’ll also place a link in the

1:12description of this video so that way

1:14you can make sure you get to this page

1:16and download the correct thing

1:18for windows there’s only going to be one

1:20option under the windows header so we’ll

1:22need to click on the download windows

1:24ch340 driver which will download the

1:27driver in a zip file

1:30we’ll want to click on the link and then

1:31save that zip file

1:35once downloaded you’ll need to go to the

1:37download location right click on the zip

1:40file

1:42and choose extract all

1:44then just click the extract button on

1:46this dialog window

1:49once you’ve done that you’ll get a

1:50pop-up folder that has the executable

1:52file for the driver and we’ll need to

1:54open that so we can get this driver

1:56installed

1:58the driver install window is very simple

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2:00there’s not much to do other than to

2:01click on the install button and it’s a

2:04very very quick install and shouldn’t

2:05take more than a second or two before

2:08you get the pop-up saying that the drive

2:10is successfully installed or in my case

2:12successfully pre-installed in advance

2:15and the ch340 driver has been installed

2:17so we can move on to the next step

2:20now that we’ve got the driver installed

2:22we can head over to the d1 and plug in

2:24the power cable as well as the included

2:26usb cable one end needs to go into the

2:28d1 and the other end into your computer

2:30and then we can power on the machine

2:33you’ll see a little status led as well

2:35as the laser positioning will light up

2:37on the laser head the d1 became

2:40compatible with light burn through a

2:42firmware update and so we will need to

2:44update the firmware on the d1 we’ll do

2:46this by downloading the laser box basic

2:49which is make blocker the x tool

2:51software i’ll have a link in the

2:53description as well over to this so that

2:55way you can download and get this

2:57installed

2:58there’s a version for both windows it

2:59does require windows 7 and above as well

3:02as mac and we will be downloading the

3:03windows version

3:05by clicking on the link which will then

3:07download the executable file

3:10once the file has finished downloading

3:12click on it and it will open up the

3:14installer window which will guide you

3:16through the installation process it’s

3:18pretty straightforward and you’ll just

3:19need to click next followed by install

3:21and the program will begin to install

3:24once complete click the finish button to

3:27open laser box basic

3:29once the program is opened we’ll need to

3:31head up to the top left where it says

3:33menu and click on that to open up the

3:35drop down menu

3:37then we’ll head down to check for

3:39firmware and click on that to open up

3:41the dialog window

3:44in this window we’ll need to go to the

3:46select a device and click that drop down

3:48if as long as your machine is plugged in

3:50and powered on and you’ve installed the

3:52driver you should see laser box followed

3:54by a com number and we’ll need to select

3:57that

3:58then when you click connect you’ll be

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4:00greeted by this update window it’ll let

4:02you know that you have a firmware

4:04version that is not the latest and by

4:06clicking on the update now button it

4:08will start the firmware update process

4:11this process did take a minute or two

4:13and there is a blue status bar going

4:15across the screen so i would just let it

4:17sit until you make sure that it has

4:19completed successfully

4:20once it’s done you’ll see a blue

4:22checkbox just saying that the firmware

4:24has updated and if you want you can head

4:26back to the check for firmware option

4:28and it will let you know that you have

4:29the latest firmware already installed

4:31which is what we want to see and we’re

4:32now ready to continue

4:35the last thing we want to do before

4:36installing lightburn is grab the

4:38configuration file that xtool has

4:40created for their d1 it’s in their user

4:42manual for getting the d1 to work with

4:44light burn below the firmware update

4:46process that we just covered and i’ll

4:48have a link in the description of this

4:49video over to that so that way you can

4:51download this file it’s just a

4:53lb dev file and we’ll need to save that

4:56we’ll be accessing it in just a moment

5:00now we’re ready to download lightburn to

5:02do this we’ll head over to the download

5:04and trial page

5:08and we’ll scroll down to where there is

5:09the different options for lightburn

5:12for windows there’s a 64-bit as well as

5:14a 32-bit version most modern computers

5:17are going to be using the 64-bit version

5:19but if you want to confirm before

5:21downloading this can easily be done by

5:23heading down to the start menu

5:26and searching system

5:29and the first thing that should pop up

5:30is system information

5:33clicking on that will open up a window

5:34that’ll contain some information about

5:36your specific computer

5:38and if we look for the line that says

5:40system type we can see that mine says 64

5:43based pc so i know i have a 64-bit

5:45computer and if yours is 32 it would say

5:4832 there

5:50with that information we can now close

5:52out of here and download the appropriate

5:54version of lightburn

5:56as we confirmed i’ll be downloading the

5:5864-bit version

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6:01clicking on the link will download the

6:02executable file which we’ll need to save

6:07then once it’s completed downloading we

6:09can click on that to open the installer

6:11window

6:12the install process is really simple and

6:14just like anything else you’d install on

6:16your computer we’re going to click next

6:18and install and it will go ahead and go

6:21through the installation of light burn

6:24once complete you’ll get to this final

6:26window where there’s a couple options

6:28particularly the install ftdi serial

6:31driver this is not something that we

6:32need for our particular machine and all

6:35that’s left to do is click the launch

6:37light burn button or finish because it’s

6:39checked by default

6:42the first time lightburn opens up you’ll

6:43be greeted by this empty device window

6:45that’s expected we need to now add our

6:48d1 and because they’ve provided the

6:50configuration file this is a really

6:52simple process

6:54all we’ll do is head down to the import

6:56option and click on that

6:58then locate that lbdev file that we just

7:00downloaded a moment ago and click on

7:03that

7:04and open that file

7:07now as we can see we’ve got the xtool d1

7:10in our device list and if we click on it

7:12once we can actually see in the bottom

7:14the different things that it says about

7:16the machine based off that file that

7:18it’s connected via serial usb it’s got

7:20the work area the origin that’s at the

7:23rear left and the auto home is disabled

7:26which is what we want because this

7:27machine doesn’t come with limit switches

7:30if in the laser window it says

7:32disconnected we’ll need to head down to

7:34next to devices where it says choose

7:37and clicking on that will open up the

7:38drop down menu where i can see com4

7:41which is for my laser and as soon as i

7:44click on that the status changes to

7:46ready looking up in the console window

7:48we can actually see that it says xtool

7:50d1 and it has the firmware version

7:52listed

7:54if at some point you open up light burn

7:56and your d1 is powered on and plugged in

7:58but it says disconnected it’s a good

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8:00idea to head down back to where we just

8:02selected the com port and check to see

8:04if there are multiple options or if

8:06perhaps your computer has assigned a

8:09different com port to the d1 and you can

8:11just cycle through those options until

8:13you find the one that is correct for

8:15your machine

8:23before we do anything else we first need

8:25to install the ch340 driver we have a

8:28link to this in our official

8:29documentation but i’ll also place a

8:31direct link in the description of this

8:33video over to the download page to make

8:35sure you download the correct thing

8:37for mac you’ll need to scroll down and

8:39there are a couple of different options

8:41i recommend going with the latest which

8:43is the version 1.5 mac os driver package

8:46direct download

8:48clicking on the link will first need to

8:50save the package and then run the

8:51installer

8:52once the installer opens you’ll just

8:54need to follow along like you’d install

8:56anything on your mac click continue and

8:59then install when it does come time to

9:01install it very likely will ask you to

9:03enter in your user password for your mac

9:06which you’ll need to do and then it will

9:08finish up the installation process

9:10when the install is finished it will ask

9:12you to reboot your mac which you’ll want

9:14to do before continuing on

9:16with the driver installed we can now

9:18plug in the power cable as well as the

9:20included usb one end needs to go into

9:22the d1 and the other end into your mac

9:25then we can flip the power on

9:27you should see the status led as well as

9:29the laser alignment light up when the

9:31machine is turned on

9:34the d1 became compatible with lightburn

9:36through a firmware update so we need to

9:38start off by heading over to xtools

9:40website and in the top menu under

9:42explore clicking on software

9:44in the top of this page you’ll see d1

9:47download xtool d1 software and we’ll

9:49need to click on that

9:51make sure you click on the correct link

9:52as they do have a completely separate

9:54software for their other machines

9:56we are downloading laser box basic

9:58version 1.2.0 they have a version for

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10:01windows and one for mac so we will click

10:03on the mac version to download the

10:05package file

10:06once it has completed downloading click

10:08on the file and it will open up the

10:10installer that will guide you through

10:11the rest of the process

10:13click continue and then install the

10:15program will ask you for your max

10:18username or your password so enter that

10:20in and the installation will continue

10:23on my mac this took about a minute in

10:25total

10:27once the installation has completed and

10:29you click close it will ask if you want

10:31to move the installer to your trash

10:32which is fine to do

10:35with the program installed we can head

10:36down to our launch pad and open laser

10:39box basic

10:41the first thing i recommend doing is

10:42heading up to the menu which is going to

10:45be in the top left and clicking on that

10:47to open up the drop menu

10:50next we’ll head to check for updates at

10:52the time of recording this 1.2 is the

10:55latest for their software but it’s not a

10:57bad idea to make sure that you are on

10:58the latest to make sure you get the

11:00latest firmware as we can see on the top

11:02it says latest version is already

11:04installed

11:05under that same menu we’ll head down to

11:08check for firmware

11:09clicking on that will open up the

11:11firmware update dialog window it’ll tell

11:14you to make sure your device is

11:15connected via usb cable and we also want

11:18it to be powered on

11:20in the selected device drop-down you

11:22should see your device listed as

11:23laserbox and we will click on that to

11:26select our device

11:28next click on the connect button and

11:30this window will tell us whether we need

11:32a firmware update

11:34it says that the current firmware

11:35version is too low and it’s recommended

11:37to upgrade the firmware which is exactly

11:39what i expected to see

11:41at this point all we need to do is click

11:43on the update now button and the update

11:45process will begin this will take about

11:48a minute or two and there is a progress

11:50bar so just let the machine do its thing

11:52and when it’s completed you will see a

11:55check mark letting you know that the

11:57update has gone successfully

11:59once completed the final step that i

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12:01recommend is to head back to that same

12:03menu go back to the check for firmware

12:06option and go through the process one

12:08more time you will need to select your

12:10device again and click connect

12:14and if everything went successfully what

12:15we’re hoping to see is that the latest

12:17firmware is already installed

12:20once you see this you can close out of

12:22laser box basic and we are ready to

12:24continue

12:25before we install lightburn we’ll want

12:27to download the configuration file

12:29provided by xtool i’ll have a link in

12:31the description over to this article

12:33which is their article on getting the d1

12:36set up and running with lightburn and if

12:38you scroll down below the firmware

12:40update information you’ll find a link

12:42for a lb dev file you’ll want to click

12:45on that and then save it somewhere on

12:47your computer so that way we can access

12:49it in just a moment

12:52next we’re ready to install lightburn

12:54we’ll start off by heading over to the

12:56download and trial page on the lightburn

12:58website and scroll down until we see the

13:00macos version of lightburn

13:03clicking on that will allow us to save

13:05the package file that we’ll need to

13:07install light burn on our mac

13:09in the pop-up window we’ll just want to

13:11click save

13:13once downloaded when you click on it it

13:15will open up a finder window with the

13:17light burn icon in your applications

13:19folder

13:21you’ll need to drag the light burn icon

13:22into the applications folder to install

13:24it on your mac

13:26the first time you try to open up

13:28lightburn you’ll get a pop-up

13:29notification saying that it cannot be

13:31opened which is expected we’ll need to

13:33click on the show in finder option

13:37doing this will open up another finder

13:39window with all of our applications and

13:41we’ll scroll down until we see light

13:42burn

13:44right click on light burn and select

13:46open

13:48when you do this you’ll get a similar

13:50notification but this time we’ll have

13:52the option to open which is exactly what

13:54we’re going to do

13:55this will only have to be done the first

13:57time that you install lightburn or if

13:59you install an update after that you can

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14:01open up light burn like you would any

14:03other program from your dock or from

14:05launch pad

14:07the first time lightburn opens you’ll be

14:09greeted by this empty device window

14:11which is to be expected we’ll need to

14:13add our d1 machine and thanks to that

14:16file we downloaded it is a very very

14:18simple process we’ll start off by

14:20heading down to the import button and

14:22then we’ll need to browse for that xtool

14:24d1 lb dev file

14:27then select it and click open

14:30as soon as it opens you’ll see in the

14:32device list the xtool d1 and if you

14:34select it and look down at the bottom

14:36you can see some information about it

14:38like that it is set up for a serial usb

14:40connection it’s got a work area of 432

14:43by 408 millimeters and the origin is at

14:46the rear left

14:48once you’ve confirmed that it’s imported

14:50we can select ok to close the device

14:52window now if we look at the laser

14:54window in the bottom right we can see

14:56that it says ready however if we look in

14:59the top where the console window is we

15:01can see it’s actually saying that it’s

15:02waiting for connection

15:04so what we’ll need to do is head down to

15:06that laser window and next to devices

15:08there is a drop down and we’re looking

15:10for the usb serial you may have multiple

15:13options that you need to try but i’ve

15:15only got the usb serial 110 so i will

15:18select that

15:20once i’ve clicked that it will take a

15:21moment and if we look up in the console

15:24now we can see that it has connected and

15:26it detects the x tool and it even has

15:28the firmware version on it

15:31lightburn will try to reconnect to your

15:32machine as long as it’s powered on and

15:34plugged in when you open up lightburn if

15:36for some reason you see disconnected and

15:38not ready in the laser window in the

15:40future there’s a chance that it is now

15:42plugged into a different usb port or the

15:44computer has assigned it a different com

15:46port in that instance we’ll just also

15:48need to go back down to the drop down

15:51next to devices and see if there is

15:53another usb serial option that we can

15:55select or cycle through the existing

15:57options until you find the one that is

15:59your x tool d1

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16:07now that the d1 is set up we’re going to

16:09run through a small sample project

16:10engraving some text this will teach us

16:13both the basic tools as well as the

16:15overall workflow of using light burn

16:18in light burn there’s a few different

16:19methods for how to position the laser

16:22head and sort of how to tell lightburn

16:23how you’d like to run a job those three

16:25methods are absolute coordinates current

16:28position

16:29as well as the user origin in today’s

16:32video specifically we’re going to be

16:34focusing on the absolute coordinates if

16:36you’re interested in the current

16:37position or user origin we’ll be

16:40covering those in a separate video

16:42absolute coordinates is going to be the

16:44best for beginners as well as the

16:46easiest to understand i’ll place a link

16:47in the description of this video over to

16:49this official documentation and i think

16:51it does a really good job of explaining

16:54what absolute coordinates is and sort of

16:55how it works it states that the page

16:57grid you see in the main editing window

17:00represents your machine’s work area

17:02anything you place in the area will be

17:04cut in the corresponding place on your

17:06machine in this example image with the

17:07two rings they’re roughly in the center

17:09of our workspace and with absolute

17:11coordinates we know that it is going to

17:13be engraving in that same location on

17:15our laser’s bed so roughly the center

17:18and however we move those two rings

17:20whether it’s up left it would then

17:21engrave further up left or down right

17:23further down right the laser is going to

17:25engrave these rings in relation to where

17:28we have them placed in our workspace in

17:30the same example if we look on the

17:32bottom left we’ll see both a red and a

17:34green square the green square represents

17:36the job origin and the red square

17:38represents the machine origin both of

17:40these will always be in the same corner

17:42when you’re using the absolute

17:43coordinates and what that means is we

17:46want to have the laser head physically

17:49in the same location as where the job

17:51origin is and in the case of the x tool

17:54d1 this is set to the top left and we’ll

17:57want to make sure the head of the laser

17:58is in the top left corner of our machine

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18:00before we run a job on a machine with

18:02limit switches it would automatically

18:04home itself to the appropriate corner on

18:06the xtool d1 it does not have limit

18:08switches so we will need to manually do

18:10this this is a very simple process and

18:12just requires you to physically move the

18:15hand of the laser using your hands to

18:17the appropriate corner before powering

18:19on the machine don’t worry about doing

18:20this right this second we’ll be covering

18:22it in just a moment

18:24next we’ll head over to the d1 and power

18:27off the machine before grabbing the

18:29piece of material we’ll be using for

18:30this tutorial i’m using a thin piece of

18:33bulsa wood but for the sake of following

18:34along with this tutorial any material is

18:36going to be fine

18:38we’ll need to place the material

18:39somewhere in our workspace towards the

18:41center and then drag the head of the

18:44laser over that piece of material

18:47next drop down the kickstand to help us

18:48set the correct height of the laser for

18:50our material and loosen the thumb screw

18:52on the left side

18:54doing so will allow the laser to freely

18:56move up and down and we’ll just want to

18:57drop it all the way down onto the top of

18:59our material once in place use one hand

19:02to hold the laser head still and the

19:04other hand to tighten that thumb screw

19:05again

19:06before folding the laser focus tool away

19:09as we mentioned a moment ago we’re using

19:11absolute coordinates and so at this

19:13point we’ll take the head of the laser

19:15and move it all the way to the back left

19:17of the machine butting up against the

19:19frame once in place you can power on the

19:21machine and we’re ready to head over to

19:23lightburn to start our design

19:25if not already the first thing we’ll do

19:27in lightburn is set it to absolute

19:29coordinates we’ll do this by looking in

19:31the laser window on the bottom right

19:33there’s a starts from section with a

19:35drop down menu clicking on there you can

19:37see the three different modes all we’ll

19:39need to do is select absolute and as we

19:41can see now the green and red box are in

19:43the top left corner which is exactly

19:45what we want

19:47for our design we’ll start off by using

19:48the text tool which will be in the left

19:51toolbar it is the icon of the letter a

19:55and clicking on that will activate the

19:57text tool

19:58then click somewhere in the center area

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20:01of your workspace which will show the

20:03text cursor and type in your name or

20:06whatever word it is you want to engrave

20:08i’m going to use lightburn

20:10once we’re done typing our word we want

20:12to get back to the selection tool to do

20:14that we can either head to the top left

20:16of the toolbar and click on the mouse

20:18cursor which is for the selection tool

20:20or we can hit escape on our keyboard

20:23once to get out of the current word that

20:25we’re typing and escape one more time to

20:28get back to the selection tool

20:31now that we’ve got something in our

20:32workspace if we head to the cuts and

20:34layers window we can see some

20:35information regarding our design it’s

20:38saying here that everything in a

20:39workspace that is in the color black is

20:42currently set to fill mode with a speed

20:44of 3 500 millimeters per minute and a

20:47power of 55 percent

20:49we’re going to start off by changing the

20:51mode from fill to line if it’s not

20:53already line to do that we will just

20:55click on the drop down where phil is and

20:58choose line

21:01in that same window if we look down

21:02towards the bottom there we can see that

21:04there are text boxes where we can change

21:06things like the speed the max power the

21:09minimum power as well as the pass count

21:11we are not going to touch those for now

21:13but that is where you can edit those

21:15values

21:17next we’ll head up to the preview window

21:20that’s going to be in the top toolbar

21:21and the icon is the one that looks like

21:23a computer monitor

21:26clicking on that will open up the

21:27preview dialog window

21:29and this is where you can see what your

21:31current design output with your settings

21:33will look like and everything in black

21:35would be where the laser is going to

21:37engrave and all of the red lines are the

21:40travel movements

21:42in the bottom of the window there is a

21:44play button where you can actually watch

21:46a simulation of the path that the laser

21:49would take to do the engraving and you

21:51can also adjust things in this window

21:52like playback speed if it’s a long

21:55design and it’s going to take a really

21:56long time you probably don’t want to

21:57watch it back in real time and you can

21:59also grab the progress bar to scrub back

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22:01and forth this is a really good place to

22:03get in the habit of checking to make

22:04sure that everything in your design and

22:06the settings you’ve chosen are going to

22:08output in the correct way or the way

22:09that you think they’re going to be

22:11output

22:13in light burn there are a lot of ways to

22:15customize text if you select the text to

22:17make it active you’ll know it’s active

22:19based off of the squiggly lines and you

22:21look up in the top toolbar you can

22:23change quite a few things like font the

22:25height vertical and horizontal spacing

22:28uppercase italicize bold just to name a

22:30few and in the font drop down you can

22:33scroll through the various fonts

22:35installed on your computer and you’ll be

22:36able to see your text update in real

22:38time which is a really handy way to make

22:41sure you like the text or that it’s

22:42going to go correctly with your project

22:45we’ll go through here and choose a font

22:46that we want for our engraving when you

22:48find one that you like just select it

22:50and it will apply it to your text

22:52in your design if you make a change or

22:54modification that you are not happy with

22:56you can easily undo this by going up

22:59into the top toolbar and there is both

23:01an undo and a redo arrow as well as

23:04control z on the keyboard is a shortcut

23:07to undo the last command

23:10next we’ll go back over to the cuts and

23:12layers window and we’re going to change

23:14the mode for our text from line to fill

23:16once again we do that by just clicking

23:18the drop down under mode and selecting

23:21the one that we want which in this case

23:22is fill

23:24once we’ve applied fill we’ll head back

23:26to the top toolbar and open up the

23:28preview window so that way we can see

23:29what changes we have made in line mode

23:32the output showed that it was only going

23:34to be outlining our text and with fill

23:36mode it does just that it fills in our

23:39text if we hit the play button on the

23:40bottom corner again we can now see that

23:42the laser head will be traveling back

23:44and forth in sort of a scanning or

23:46zigzag pattern filling in the entire

23:48face of our text

23:51next we’re going to create an outline of

23:53our text using the offset tool we’ll

23:55need to make sure our text is selected

23:57and we’ll head over to the left toolbar

23:59and click on the bold o icon in the

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24:02center of that toolbar to open up the

24:04offset dialog window in this window

24:06there’s quite a bit of things we can

24:08control or customize we can change the

24:10direction from outward inward or both of

24:13our offset we also can play around with

24:15the different corner styles from round

24:17to bevel or corner and of course we can

24:19adjust the offset distance when

24:22adjusting the offset distance you have a

24:23couple of different ways of doing this

24:25you can type in the specific number that

24:27you’d like in the text box you can also

24:29use the arrows on the right hand side of

24:32that text box and if you have your mouse

24:34cursor over the text box you can

24:36actually use the scroll wheel on your

24:39mouse to quickly scrub through the

24:40different sizes until you find the one

24:42that you like there’s not really a right

24:44or wrong here and you can choose

24:45whichever you think looks best i’m going

24:47to be going with a round corner style on

24:49the outside direction with an offset

24:51distance of 5 millimeters once you’re

24:54happy with your settings click ok to

24:56apply and close the

24:58window now we want to select just the

25:01outline if the inner text is selected

25:03you can just click away or hit escape on

25:05your keyboard to unselect that inner

25:08text and that will allow us to click on

25:09the outline

25:11once again you’ll know it’s active

25:12because of these squiggly lines on the

25:14outline

25:15with the outline actively selected head

25:17down to the bottom where there is the

25:19color palette and choose a different

25:20color to set the outline to i went with

25:23red and you can instantly see that the

25:25outline is now red in our workspace also

25:28if you look up in the cuts and layers

25:30window you can now see we have a second

25:32layer which is for the color red that we

25:34just chose and it’s got its own set of

25:36unique settings

25:38our text should still be in fill mode

25:39and for that new outline we want that to

25:41be in line mode

25:43in the cuts and layers window we are

25:45going to be setting the speed and power

25:47by selecting the layer that we want to

25:50edit the values on and then there are

25:52text boxes in the bottom right the

25:53settings here are going to depend

25:55heavily on whether you have the 5 watt

25:57or 10 watt version of the d1 also what

25:59material you’re engraving as well as

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26:02just a bit of personal preference for

26:04the fill layer i’m going with 3 500

26:07millimeters per minute and 45 power and

26:10for the outline i want it a bit darker

26:12so i’m slowing it down to 1500

26:14millimeters per minute with 60 power

26:17but there’s not exactly a right or wrong

26:19here and you can always come back and

26:20adjust settings if you need to increase

26:22the power or decrease the power as well

26:25as adjust the speeds

26:26with the speed and power set we’ll head

26:28back up to the preview window and take a

26:30look at our output

26:32what we’ll see is that the face of the

26:34text is going to be filled so the laser

26:35will be traveling back and forth and

26:37once completed it will run the outline

26:39pass which is just a single pass going

26:41around the outside of our text

26:44now you can close out of the preview

26:45window and we’re going to start with

26:47framing our job in the laser window if

26:49we click the square framing button the

26:51head of the laser will travel to the

26:53area it’s going to be running the

26:55engraving and it will run an outline on

26:57the outermost portion of our engraving

26:59so in this section we’ll be pressing the

27:01square framing button a few times and

27:03each time we’ll be moving our piece of

27:05material to make sure that it’s

27:06completely under the laser head and also

27:09that we’ve got it as aligned as possible

27:11with the d1 because it has that

27:13positioning laser built into it it makes

27:15it very very simple in my case i did

27:18shrink down the text a bit because it

27:19was a little bit too large and it went

27:21with a different piece of wood because

27:23the really thin piece of balsa wood that

27:25i had was uneven and was causing issues

27:27with the head of the laser actually

27:29bumping into it

27:31as you can see here on my final pass

27:33it’s pretty well centered and it’s

27:35definitely on top of that piece of wood

27:37so i’m happy with the positioning of

27:39where this engraving is going to be

27:41once you’re happy with the positioning

27:42all that’s left to do is press the start

27:45button in that same laser window and the

27:47job will begin to run you’ll want to

27:49make sure that you’ve got your laser

27:50safety glasses on and that you’re always

27:52close by the laser whenever you’re

27:54running a job to make sure that if

27:55something happens you can quickly and

27:57easily stop it

27:59after a few minutes you should have your

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28:01completed engraving and this has been a

28:03great first step in learning a bit about

28:05the d1 and how the machine functions as

28:08well as lightburn some of the basic

28:10tools how to use some of the design

28:12tools as well as how to set the output

28:15for your job the next steps i’d

28:17recommend would be to take a look in our

28:19official documentation as well as join

28:22the official lightburn forums and of

28:24course to check out the wide range of

28:27video tutorials we have on our youtube

28:29channel links will be in the description

28:31of this video to all of the mentioned

28:32resources

28:35if you’re a machine manufacturer and

28:36would like us to make a video like this

28:38about your machine please contact us at

28:40 business@lightburnsoftware.com