Lightburn has numerous wonderful Alignment features . . .
. . . but is there one which would align my project with the Machine Workspace (i.e. with Lightburn’s coordinate grid so that I don’t get the error message “One or more shapes are crossing the edge of the machine workspace and will not be sent.”)?
This will place the selected object at the designated location on workspace.
Yes, that might be a manual way to do it, but I want an object to automatically align with the edge limits of the Lightburn workspace grid which correspond to the machine workspace:
In the image above, your graphic is obviously beyond the work area. It will give an out of bounds warning. To complicate matters, even if you were right on the edge of the workspace the graphic will cut, but if you are in fill mode you will get an error due to the needed overscanning.
Use the dock buttons. That will move to where you are requesting with one click.
It’s likely I don’t understand your definitions of automatic vs manual. What would constitute an automatic alignment within the edges? I don’t believe there’s an option to force every object within the workspace. Or does this mean you want the object to snap to the edge of the workspace as you’re dragging the object on-screen?
If so,. there’s no direct way to do this but here are some alternatives:
Hmmm. Getting closer. My failure to communicate is not your fault if I understand what you are saying but can’t get you to understand what I mean. It happens with my wife all the time. 
I want to construct / place my shape to the utmost extent of the workspace so that I don’t have to wait until pressing “Start” to find out that the shape is NEITHER outside the boundaries of the Lightburn grid NOR the the machine workspace.
This will help keep me from “wasting” wood if I can get the cut right to the edge of the material.
If . . .
the uppermost and rightmost edges of the Lightburn grid
correspond exactly to
the uppermost and rightmost edges of the limits of my laser head (the extent of my rails and gantry) . . .
AND
If Lightburn could automatically align my shape to those upper and rightmost limits, comparable to using the horizontal align (Shft-Alt-H) and vertical align (Shft-Alt-V), that would help me.
So, apologies for extending the topic with wordiness. Your patience and forbearance is appreciated. Sometimes, I’m just not very good at communicating.
Hmmm. This has some possibilities I think. I currently have Settings at “Set to objects” – so that when I want to align the center of a circle over the corner of a rectangle, it snaps there.
But if I hear what you are saying in #2, I could create (and save) a rectangle which directly corresponds to the Lightburn workspace using T1 or T2 tools, import that at the beginning of every project, and then align or move my shapes within those boundaries using some of Lightburn’s alignment tools (e.g. Align Right, Align Top, etc.).
I wonder, is there a way to open Lightburn so that when it opens, by default it has a shape (e.g. a T1 or T2 path which corresponds to the Lightburn workspace grid)?
A rectangle would work fine if you wanted to encapsulate the entire workspace. I had called out using a guideline but the specific shape is not important.
Yes. Any object snapping properties would work as expected.
I don’t believe there’s any such thing. You could simulate this by creating a LightBurn file with your starting point, opening that, and then immediately saving to a new file once you get started.
If you set up Lightburn with the correct dimensions of you machine work area, the grid in Lightburn is the size of your work area.
You need to determine exactly where those extents are physically located on your machine. The honeycomb is NOT it, guaranteed. If you want a simple method to place your workpiece that corresponds with the work area in Lightburn make a jig. I referenced my video on making a jig system in your other thread. You don’t have to do it my way, but you do need a way to physically locate your workpiece.
One of the other options is to use user origin or current position. Then you place the workpiece according to laser position, not work area.
I don’t drag my designs to location in Lightburn. I type in the coordinates I want them to be at. This shows a rectangle along my fence at 650,0. I place the workpiee against my 650 fence and it cuts perfectly. In order to do this you need to pay attention to the anchor point of your graphic. That is the location referenced.
Nice. I sometimes forget that there are more tools available for the menu bar, so I right-clicked and deselected “Arrange” and selected “Arrange (long)”.
