New Features in LightBurn 2.0
Dark Mode¶
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Enable Use Dark Background to darken your Workspace along with LightBurn's UI.
You can now select from three Application Themes in the Display tab of the Settings window: System Theme, Classic Dark, and Classic Light.
New Built-in Shapes¶
You can now select and create Triangles, Pentagons, Octagons, Stars, and Dual Stars from a stacked menu of shape creation tools.
Click the arrow in the corner of the shape creation icon, or click anywhere on the icon and hold, to open the Draw Shapes submenu and select the shape you'd like to create.
Edit and Select Shapes After Creation¶
After creating a new shape, you can now immediately use the handles to Move, Size, Rotate, or Shear it, while the Draw Shapes tool remains active.
Enable Switch to Select mode after drawing a shape in the Editor Settings tab of your Settings to immediately exit the Draw Shapes tool after creating a shape and enable Selection mode instead.
Edit Nodes Submenu¶
Activating the Edit Nodes tool now expands a submenu with buttons for each node editing option. Click a button to activate an option, then click over a node or path to perform that action.
Keyboard shortcuts still work just as they did in previous versions.
Camera Control Window: New Tabs and Options¶
The Camera Control Window has been updated with new tabs separating tools to Capture and Adjust overlays. Windows users will see additional tabs to control Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, White Balance, Hue, and Focus.
Experimental Camera Calibration (Documentation Coming Soon)¶
We've implemented a new Camera Calibration wizard with an improved — and easier! — flow. This wizard uses live tracking of an AprilTags pattern to calibrate your camera's lens.
To access it, right-click in the Camera Control Window and select Calibrate Camera Lens (experimental).
Stacked Boolean Operations Buttons¶
All Boolean operations are now stacked into a single button. The Boolean Assistant is now the default option, and clicking once will open it.
Click the arrow in the bottom left, or click anywhere on the icon and hold, to open a submenu with individual operations. Selecting an option will perform that operation, and will also make it the button's active operation, meaning you can subsequently click the button once to perform that operation again.
Cuts / Layers Window: New Icons and Context Menus¶
We've updated the icons in the Cuts / Layers Window so they better indicate the actions each button performs.
You can now right-click any layer to open a context menu with options to disable, hide, flash, or select objects on that layer (or objects not on that layer in the case of disable and hide).
Right-clicking anywhere over the column headers opens a context menu with options for enabling, showing, and sorting layers.
Independent Design and Machine Units¶
Design Units and Machine Units are now independently adjustable settings.
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Design Units are used in your Workspace, where you create and edit graphics. You can change Design Units in the Settings window or by pressing the mm/in toggle in the Numeric Edits Toolbar.
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Machine Units are used when entering layer settings through the Cuts / Layers Window or Cut Settings Editor. You can change Machine Units in the Device Settings window.
Other Notable Changes¶
- The Copy Along Path window now has a Select Results toggle.
- The Galvo Rotary Marking window now allows you to visually adjust Output Center.
- Head-Mounted Camera Alignment has a new wizard and option to use an AprilTags pattern.
- Macro functions have been moved from the Console Window to a new Macros Window.
- The Create Barcode tool now supports AprilTag and and ArUCo barcode types.
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