LightBurn: Learn to Cut and Engrave Like a Pro in 2025

Explore the LightBurn user interface by navigating the main menu, toolbars, icons, panels, and the workspace to manage layers, objects, and laser settings.

Select the text tool, edit and format text in LightBurn, change font and size, adjust spacing and alignment, apply bold, uppercase, or italic styles, and transform with stretch, rotate, curve.

Use offset shapes tool in LightBurn to create shifted copies around an object, choose internal or external offsets, and apply rounded, beveled, or corner styles for laser cutting and engraving.

Use the boolean assistant to perform path operations like difference and intersection on overlapping shapes, producing a new path as the result.

Use the circular array tool to duplicate objects around a center, set copies and degrees, and apply the array, starting with a triangle by drawing a polygon with three sides.

Learn to round corners quickly in LightBurn by using the click corners to round them tool, converting a square to a path, and dragging a blue handle to adjust curvature.

Use the arrange menu to align and center multiple shapes, applying equalize centers, and left, right, top, or bottom edge alignment for precise layouts.

Explore LightBurn's four-point warp selection to adjust text and wall perspective, using control to drag corners for vertical symmetry and shift for horizontal symmetry.

Use the 16 point deformation tool to fit the inscription to the rounded side of a pizza slice, adjusting font size and point positions to align edges and center.

Use the two-point rotate tool to rotate triangles around a pivot, align and arrange them across layers, and drag corners to fit a hem.

Explore how to use Lightburn's copy along path feature to clone shapes along a path, adjusting copies, spacing, and rotation, with squares, circles, and a rectangle demonstrated.

Learn to weld letters for connected text in Lightburn by using the welded option with negative horizontal area field, or convert to path, edit nodes, and apply boolean union.

Use LightBurn's built in material test to generate a parameter sampler and discover the optimal laser power and speed for cutting three millimetres thick plywood with a ten-watt laser.

Explore how starting point choices affect engraving in LightBurn, with nine starts, a green start marker, and the laser head moving left to right and up to engrave a graphic.

learn to use lightburn variable text with a csv file to place dog names on a bone shape, referencing csv columns with percent signs and creating a five-by-five namesakes grid.

Learn to create a hotel room keychain using LightBurn by applying variable text to produce sequential numbers, assembling a house-shaped keyring with a hole and aligned engraving.

Master draggable guidelines in LightBurn 1.5 to align shapes with horizontal and vertical snap lines, and manage guides by creating, grouping, locking, unlocking, deleting, and drawing shapes to size.

Master corner modification in LightBurn 1.5 by using the new corner handle to adjust radii and concave rounding on rectangles, dragging horizontally or vertically to achieve precise shapes.

Design and engrave a mountain signpost by building a 200x100 mm rectangle, adding trail colors, text for peak and ascent time, and mounting holes with proper layers.

Create a personalized pizza board in lightburn by drawing a 35 cm circle, centering upper text, adding a pizza image, converting to curves, and grouping for engraving.

Design an educational clock in LightBurn by creating concentric circles, aligning and offsetting elements, and building circular arrays for 12 hours and 60 minutes with engraved numerals and 2400 hours.

Master precise scaling in LightBurn by resizing objects or entire projects using corners, or entering exact dimensions in millimeters, inches, or percentages to fit limited space.

learn to adapt a LightBurn design for different material thicknesses by resizing slots and depth, increasing indentations from 3 mm to 6 mm, and increasing pleats.

Create a small circle, draw a regular polygon above it, flip vertically, form a five-copy circular array, then connect, ungroup, and remove inner elements to reveal the star.

Learn to draw a gear wheel in LightBurn by creating a 100 mm circle, 12 teeth, converting to paths, and using circle array and boolean joins.