I didn't know LightBurn could do THAT!

In this video we take a look at six lesser know features in LightBurn that can help increase your productivity and workflow.
1. Warp Seleciton tool (v1.4)
2. Deform Selection tool (v1.4)
3. Modifying or removing a radius or fillet (v1.3)
4. The Boolean Assistant (v1.0)
5. Hotkey Editor (Ignore the text overlay at 10:10 - I edited out what it was referencing) (v1.3)
6. Toggling drag handles (v1.1)
Inlcuding a bonus tip for quickly creating QR codes directly in LightBurn.
LightBurn Laser Software
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- Get the latest LightBurn build: lightburnsoftware.com/
1.4.05 as of production of this video
- LightBurn Support Forums: forum.lightburnsoftware.com/
- LightBurn Documentation: docs.lightburnsoftware.com/
- LightBurn Suggest a Feature: lightburn.fider.io/

[@davidelder5399]

Great tips, thanks for sharing

[@dvalinut]

You do the best Lightburn videos. I would love to see more. Thank You

[@thetinkerverse]

Wow, thank you! More to come for sure.

[@mr.mrs.t.9292]

Awesome tips. I appreciate your time and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@thetinkerverse]

My pleasure!

[@alanwomack5656]

Learned several lightburn features from this video. Thank you!

[@thetinkerverse]

You're welcome

[@mikedoyle5362]

Fantastic tips. Very well presented and opens up areas I did not know of in Lightburn. Thankyou

[@thetinkerverse]

You're welcome!

[@stevegrant6464]

Excellent video - your work is much appreciated! Thanks.

[@thetinkerverse]

My pleasure!

[@LaserNUG]

Thanks - very helpful. Appreciate the time you take to share good info with us. Cheers!

[@thetinkerverse]

My pleasure

[@FranktheDachshund]

Great tips! Boolean assist and reassign hotkeys,...who knew?

[@tracywilliams61]

Appreciate you sharing the tips. Thank you❤

[@thetinkerverse]

Any time

[@pettigrewwoodworks]

Great tips. Thanks for sharing!

[@thetinkerverse]

Thanks for watching!

[@maggie9256]

These were helpful tips. Thank you.

[@thetinkerverse]

You're welcome

[@andrewvanderweg5075]

Excellent tutorial, thanks

[@thetinkerverse]

You're welcome

[@derekjenkinson8014]

Wish I could like this more than once! Great vid. 👍

[@thetinkerverse]

Thanks a ton!

[@3DAstroTC]

Fantastic!

[@marymullen4262]

Excellent video-thank you! I’ve read the LB stuff but I learn better by seeing and doing 🙂

[@thetinkerverse]

I'm the same way. The videos actually started out because I wanted to learn a lot of this by doing even if it was functionality I don't use on a regular basis. It helps me understand it.

[@captcrow]

Thanks for the video. QR code bonus was a good tip. Worth a new sub . Thanks

[@thetinkerverse]

Thanks for the sub!

[@terryclair2914]

Great tips! Thank you.

[@thetinkerverse]

Glad it was helpful!

[@russellrains6593]

wow, just happened across your video. Well done. Your video is concise and your narration style is easy to follow. Thanks!

[@thetinkerverse]

Anytime. Make sure and subscribe for when I drop more like it.

[@woodworkergene5416]

Thank you for sharing this information. I love your channel. I just subscribed.

[@thetinkerverse]

Thanks and welcome aboard!

[@richardsandford1607]

great video!!! thank you!

[@thetinkerverse]

Glad you liked it!

[@jf6720]

You have a new subscriber! Very informative video.

[@thetinkerverse]

Welcome aboard!

[@felipecastilloappas]

Great Video!

[@thetinkerverse]

Thanks!

[@adamcolville2057]

Hi Carl, I stumbled across the warp tool, the other day, when trying to turn a SVG of a vinyl record, I was doing an engrave for a friend who is a DJ? It was his birthday gift and managed to lay the picture of the vinyl flat and put some dancers on the top it was proper awesome and you could still even read all the information on the record label . Keep up the videos fella they’re very useful

[@thetinkerverse]

Awesome job! If you're so inclined don't forget to share your finished works on the forum. I know that's not for everyone, but it's fun to see what others are accomplishing with the software.

[@sblack48]

Great video

[@thetinkerverse]

Thanks!

[@steveferguson1232]

I really like your videos Carl. I’ve been using light for over 2 years now, and I’m learning more from your videos than from anyone else on KZbin. One thing I would like you to say in your videos is how important it is to pay the yearly fee to keep getting updates. I say this because some of your viewers may not have done this and they go look for the warp tool and it’s not there. Keep the videos coming and I tell anyone that uses a laser that I know to check out your channel

[@thetinkerverse]

Hi Steve. Thank you for the feedback and point taken about the annual renewal. I do sometimes forget that people may be perfectly happy back on 1.0 or earlier and still plugging along. LightBurn has been great all through its lifespan and production shops aren't always on the bleeding edge releases. That said, from 1.0 to 1.4 there have been some awesome new additions so hopefully this encourages people to upgrade.

[@steveferguson1232]

@@thetinkerverse that is so true, the warp features are awesome. Never thought to do an image like you showed that does really open up a whole new avenue of fun

[@genabush4619]

Again! Another GREAT video!! I work with alot of graphic programs. Only thing I miss (so far) is text warp presents like in Corel Draw.

[@thetinkerverse]

I'd actually like to hear more about that? I haven't been in Corel in probably 10 years so I'm not familiar.

[@genabush4619]

@CarlFisher_F3 Corel has several presets(arch, angle, wave, etc) that you can use to warp and distort text. Basically, they are presets and also have nodes if you want to change them. The envelope function in Corel is the same as warp in lightburn. I'm really surprised lightburn is as inexpensive as it is and I find it stands close to many graphics programs. I'm also used to right clicking to move things forward and back instead of having to go to a menu but it's not like it's hard to find. If you ever find a printout of the hot keys I would love to have one.

[@Fancylooks]

Excellent information, very appreciated

[@thetinkerverse]

You're welcome and thanks for watching!

[@koins9154]

fantastic tutorial thank you. sub and like

[@MrJfrutuoso1972]

again another simple and very good video, we need a laser to test all this 😉

[@thetinkerverse]

Agreed and thank you for the kind words.

[@freddotu]

I continue to be amazed about how powerful and easy to use is. The other amazement is the incredibly low price. If one doesn't need to have the newer features, one need not pay for an update, but that's likely to be crippling especially as the update cost is also low.

[@thetinkerverse]

One of the best values out there for what you get. I'm amazed honestly at how much they are able to accomplish for the price point of the software.

[@sblack48]

Yep have to agree. I’ve been using autocad, rhino and recently fusion 360 so I have some cad experience and I was up and running in about 45 minutes after watching a few videos. Since then I’ve gotten deeper into it and am impressed with how complex i can be if you want it to be, or how simple if you just want to basic stuff. Well worth the price.

[@6r4metroman]

Just a quick note on the Radius tool, if you have 'Shape Properties' turned on in the window menu, you can alter the radius of all corners in one go...

[@thetinkerverse]

Yep and in 1.5 you can do it with a drag handle now too. And yes, the shape properties can be used to adjust if you want to do all at once.

[@_chappie_]

Nahhh boolean assist is something I always wanted but never knew existed. Thanks man.

[@thetinkerverse]

Anytime. Definitely a helpful feature especially when playing with A-B or B-A Subtract options

[@Evil_Clown_3DIY]

Cool tips ! It would be nice if you could show the warp command with an example (engraving a bulbous wine glass or a slanted tumbler). So I would understand better how the tip is applied. Greetings from Germany, East Frisia Jari

[@thetinkerverse]

I'd love to but my laser is currently out of commission sadly.

[@billkeogh1591]

Thank you for this info. I love when we newbies are helped by showing us things that make our experience more enjoyable and give us confidence. FYI...I scanned your QR and it din't work. Maybe it's a Canada thing?? Take care. Thanks again for sharing.

[@thetinkerverse]

Yeah unfortunately I rebranded since I dropped this video and the old link is dead. Thanks for the feedback though :)

[@QuagmireLXIX]

Lightburn is the bomb and so are you Carl, well done and concise! I'll be back for more education, thank you. I hope LB never goes to subscription! Keep buying the annual update costs people, don't give their genius a reason to get greedy! Note the word "buying" versus "subscription", if you want to stop purchasing because you have all the talent of theirs that you need, then you're set and can use it until Windows (OS) screws it up somehow, but if you're like me and want to keep going on what they come up with, but don't want to fall in the useability trap of subscriptions, keep buying the updates so their work can pay off for them. My 2 cents on the way Adobe started the software trend imo!

[@thetinkerverse]

I forget how Joe put it, but it was along the lines of "if you buy it, it's yours to use until the heat death of the sun" or something close to that. Unlike many of the online only packages that require ongoing subscriptions and active internet connections, you buy LB and it's yours and going forward you only need to pay if you want updates beyond the first year. I hate what Adobe did. I used to own most of those tools outright but this subscription thing is bonkers. The price for Illustrator is insane. I am forced to pay the $10/mo for the photography plan that includes PS and LR though. Thank god for Inkscape but honestly 98% of everything I need to design for a laser is right in Lightburn now! Sorry, struck a nerve with the Adobe thing LOL.

[@QuagmireLXIX]

@thetinkerverse lol, striking a nerve is what my comment is all about, and I will be posting more of them on LB videos. I'm getting a cnc machine today and the subscription model is running rampant in cad/cam as well. As you said, thanks to community driven software, they are gr8 options until one becomes comfortable to shell out big bucks. I keep supporting those communities and while LB isn't that software, they are holding to an excellent software model that has been going the way of the dodo. LB does so much for me on the laser to. Thanks again for your tut work!

[@hokieinidaho]

How do you enable the radius drag handle that was introduced in 1.5? I can no longer grab a shape by that corner to align with others

[@thetinkerverse]

As of 1.6 you hold the CTRL key to make it visible (Command key on MAC). Apparently people were accidentally grabbing it instead of the resize handles so they hid it until you hold the modifier key.

[@MrJfrutuoso1972]

a suggestion for a topic, is what camera should we use in Lightburn, for instance I have the TwoTrees TS 10W laser and I'm using their enclosure, I've already tested 3 cameras from Amazon and none of them works as expected, so I returned them all. In Lightburn we have 2 options of camera one on a stand and another in the laser, how can that one in laser work, I never saw anyone in any KZbin channel talking about those 2 different positions and in my case due to the fact that i don't enough height in the enclosure if I set them in the middle I have lack of focus.... so does it really make sense to have one if we need to have an higher enclosure or is there any camera that can be set at, let's say, 30mm from the laser bed???

[@thetinkerverse]

Ahhh as much as I would love to do that, I don't have a camera on my laser so I would be talking out of my rear trying to make it sound legit :)

[@brianhaberberger9667]

That was very cool. Do you work for lightburn, i only ask because im new to it and bought my first laser and messed it up installing it. Im not the most computer savvy guy. I need help.

[@thetinkerverse]

I do not. I'm just an enthusiast who has been lending a hand since the early days of the software. My suggestion is to hop over to the LightBurn forum and ask there. forum.lightburnsoftware.com/

[@foxr31]

i kave a polar 350 im very new at this in fact recieve for christmas when i text no matter what faunt im in the o and zeros are not round. in lightburn they look correct but print out incorrect can you help me

[@thetinkerverse]

That Omtech is a nice machine. I've actually been eyeing that as a possible candidate if I can't get my K40 back up and running again. For the out of round issue, most times that is something loose in the drivetrain. Check to make sure any belts are tensioned properly and all of the various hardware is tightened down right. If you can't get it sorted I'm sure Omtech may have some suggestions.

[@MakerDan55]

This is a great video. Did anyone ever tell you that you sound just like David Letterman? 😅

[@thetinkerverse]

LOL, nope, don't think I've heard that one before. I'll have to ask my wife if she agrees :)

[@scottm8285]

They need to change "warp" to "skew" and "deform" to "warp". Coming from the Photoshop and Illustrator world, warp means more of a bend using handles to define curves. Skew is moving straight lines like.

[@genabush4619]

I keep looking for the "envelope" tool to "warp" my text! 😁 it's almost like you have to take off each hat and put a new one on when you use a different program so you can remember where your tools are. I use Corel, AI, AP, LB, and LXI (vinyl cutting software. Flipping between makes me loopy sometimes.

[@thetinkerverse]

xkcd.com/927/ :) I get it, but every time I think about standardization this XKCD cartoon comes to mind.

[@stanmiller3676]

Why am I seeing version 1.5 on videos but isn't available on my computer?

[@thetinkerverse]

ACTUALLY..... It was just released to public beta. Go check the support forums as the devs dropped the link yesterday I think.

[@deano572]

Totally off topic but your voice sounds like David Letterman

[@stuffsethmakes]

did you pronounce "bezier" like "bee-yezz-ay"? 🤣

[@thetinkerverse]

be-zee-ay seems to be the most widely accepted pronunciation that can find. I'm sure I tripped up on it and honestly it's not how I've pronounced it for years so who knows LOL It's not one of those words I ever speak out loud.

[@mikepmel]

I believe some these tips requires version 1.5

[@thetinkerverse]

They shouldn't. Everything I showed here was taken from the documentation and release notes for 1.4 and earlier.

[@thetinkerverse]

Did you find something not applicable to your version? What feature and what version? Thanks.

[@mikepmel]

OOPS... You are correct. I can do all od these in 1.4@@thetinkerverse

[@bernddk]

Good video, thanks. (without music ! , it's just better ;-) )