Copying/exporting cut settings across projects

[wasatchstudio (Brian)]

Is there a way to share cut settings from one project to another, or to export and import just the cut settings? I notice that when you create a new project, it uses the settings from the currently open project. It would be really nice to be able to import export those easily, or to set settings globally that will be used for any new project, or to bring in your own favored settings to a project that was downloaded from somewhere else.

[Hank (Hank Morgan)]

Use the material library?

LightBurn Lesson 4 for Emblaser 2 - Material Library

[wasatchstudio (Brian)]

Thank you! I had overlooked the material library.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@wasatchstudio

a way to share cut settings from one project to another, or to export and import just the cut settings?

You bet. We use this to create Template Files all the time.

@LightBurn

You can also just save a template file of settings. Make a file that has all the cut settings set the way you like, then delete all the objects from it so the project is empty. Save that. LightBurn normally saves only the cut info attached to objects in a file, but if the project is empty, it assumes you want a cut settings template, and saves all of the cut settings.

If you load that file before you load vectors, the settings stored in that template file will be applied. This means you can save pre-set color banks for different materials, and still do the normal color-mapping approach.