I thought that Lightburn included a basic art library? Is that not the case any longer? Is it there but requires more than simply clicking on it?
No, it has always been empty. It is up to you to fill it with content. The name âart libraryâ also does not cover the complete function, I use it more as a component store, for example. Have I first made a screw head once, it wanders in âstorageâ and is reused again and again âŚ
Thanks. Any good sources for free clip art.?
not really, using my system for more technical matters
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Try the Search, found at the top-right of every page. It should return other posts members have provided with some great links and resources. 
Plus, the Goolage is a great tool to find things. Set to your search to images and then line art or Clipart, Black and White, vector and so on to filter to the best matching results you are looking for.
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I copied some image files to a folder then imported them to LB. The file names show up but no icons and I canât drag them into a project. any ideas? I didnât see anything called out in settings for the art library, or any notes on itâs window indicating limited image file ablity.
Make sure that your first layer (layer 0) is enabled and set to show - itâs possible that when you imported them that wasnât the case, which might make the thumbnails empty too (that would be a bug if itâs true).
For free artwork, Iâve found some good ones here, completely free, no royalties:
https://publicdomainvectors.org/
And these are free for personal use:
https://www.freevector.com/
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The images were all flat files initially. I grabbed some pngs and downloading some vectors today. They didnât show up the first time I imported them. So I killed everything, did it exactly the same and they showed up the second time. The library could use a little work to allow library deletion without having to use file manager on MAC. I love lightburn. It would be also great to allow a projects library where one could access their projects in lightburn vs again using file open. Perhaps something were they are stored like artwork but with the burn settings attached as well as the original material.
We could simply add the option to the library to have it save settings as well - possibly mark the files as âthis one also has settingsâ somehow, but Iâd have to figure out a good way to make that work. It could also just be a different kind of library - so weâd have just âart libraryâ and âproject libraryâ types. That could work, but youâd want to be careful to back them up safely if you were going to use them to store everything.
Thereâs some value in having things separate, in case the file ever get stomped by something. One single file getting messed up only affects that file, but if the table of contents in the library, or one of the record links ever got corrupt, it could mess up the entire thing, and youâd lose most or all of it. That can happen as it is, but I was cautious with how itâs handled, and so far no one has reported any failures, but Iâd like to leave it for a bit to make sure thatâs the case before I start putting too much faith in it.
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Some good points to that thinking for sure. If you had a projects library, that would surely require some backup to a different location. Perhaps itâs fine just as it is.
One thing I noticed is that as I get a few devices of different spec but use gRBL it would be great under devices to actually be able to name the devices so that they are easier to find.
OK, this is a good idea. Try this, click the âDevicesâ button found in the âLaserâ window. Double-click one of the âDevice Profilesâ you have saved, then advance 2 pages, hitting the âNextâ button. You can edit the name there, within reason. 
Then, continue until you see âFinishâ. Hit that to commit the change.
The original name is auto-filled for you, but youâre welcome to change it at creation time, or after, on the page Rick highlights above.
3Axis.co This is the site I use as well. Also keep in mind that you can use the trace feature in Lightburn, Illustrator or Inkscape to generate your own Vectors.
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