How to use without connecting

[Paulrich (Paul Richardson)]

Hi All
I’m so new here I don’t even have a my machine yet, this is my problem.
Is it possible to use Lightburn without the requirement to being connected to the machine, I get thrown back out without doing so. I have a month or so before arrival and a lot can be learnt in that time also if I have it 2 computers with the Laser and the other in my house how do I connect to the computer.
Think a lot of people may have tried this.

[Stroonzo (Jeff)]

@Paulrich

a lot can be learnt in that time

Hello Paul. Yes indeed a lot can be learned and so much information is available on the forum as well as the lightburn documentation. Have a look through some searches, and you will find information specifically about these topics. For example:

Running lightburn without a directly connected device

so, due to space restrictions I don’t have a lot of choice but to keep my laser cutter in the garage and do all the work on the files in my office in the house. This means the most ideal way of getting files to the device is to save the .RD file to a USB drive and walk it to the cutter and load them in and run them that way. It looks like light burn doesn’t want to run without having detected a directly connected device. Is there a way around this so I can run the software according to the work…

License Use in two locations

Can I use the same license in my office to do design work and then also use it in my shop where the laser is attached to actually cut?

[LightBurn (Oz)]

You can’t run LightBurn without telling it what kind of device you want to make files for, but you don’t actually have to be connected to one - just click the “Create Manually” button, tell it you have a Ruida, what size, and where the machine origin is, and that’s it.

The software needs this info to know what options to show you, what format to generate for the machine, and so on.

[Paulrich (Paul Richardson)]

Thanks everyone, I bought the licence and went in manually and all good.