It would be great if lightburn could run other devices like a wazer water jet, or prrhaps a grbl cnc machine. As the developers should have so much extra time now that they no longer support linux. Or fix the newer versions of light burn to engrave straight on a very old ruda controller. But the old version works great for me. So I probably will stick with it until my computer or my ancient laser or perhaps me my self expires. 
it would be cool if lightburn could read rd works rld files. As i would like not to have to use it to burn a thing or two that i designed (drew in rd works god help me) ever again.
Hi James,
The developers and beta users have made quite a lot of progress with our new up-and-coming MillMage software which is designed to work with GRBL & GCode compatible CNC machines, and you can already run the Wazer water jet using LightBurn’s ‘Custom GCode’ device (as demonstrated with instructions thanks to @ChrisAnd1998 see: Custom GCode for Wazer Waterjet).
What version of LightBurn are you running and what old Ruida controller do you have that the the current v1.7.08 version will not work on?
It would be cool if LightBurn could read RDWorks (.rld) files, but it might not be as hard as you might imagine to bring files over to LightBurn (as you need them). If you export to .ai and import to LightBurn the only major thing that is missing is the cut settings, and if you tend to use a lot of similar materials then you might already have these settings in your material library in LightBurn.
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