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Lightburn for Laser Cutter

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About

LightBurn is layout, editing, and control software for your laser cutter. With LightBurn you can:

- Import artwork in a variety of common vector graphic and image formats (including AI, PDF, SVG, DXF, PLT, PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP)

- Arrange, edit, and even create new vector shapes within the editor, with powerful features like offsetting, boolean operations, welding, and node editing

- Apply settings like power, speed, number of passes, cut order, brightness & contrast, dithering mode, and much more

- Send the result directly to your laser cutter

LightBurn is a native application written for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

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Download

Go to Lightburn's download page to download and install the software. Chattlab Makerspace has a discount code available to members. This discount gives us a price of $20 compared to the normal $80 price. This is a very generous offer from Lightburn and we have a limited amount of these discounted licenses. Contact Jeff you you need the discount code. If you're not a ChattLab member, don't bother to ask.

Documentation

For up to date documentation on Lightburn, you can find it HERE.