I see I can only create 32 cut/layers. I’d like to be able to create many more than that.
LightBurn Pro 2.0.01-RC-1 @ 59f4f47 Qt6.5.7
I specifically want more that 32 of these stanzas:
<CutSetting type=“Scan”>
<index Value=“…”/>
…
</CutSetting>
…may I ask why?
What do you want with so many layers?
I want to be able to define all of my colors once and be able to use them anywhere without having to edit each project.
…I understand that perfectly well, but do you have so many different materials/thicknesses you work with? What are you doing that requires this many layers?
seems like the material library should solve the use case. As far as I know, the layer definition elements are limitless. The layer colors are merely a limit of layer containers for each project / design file, .lbrn2 file. Just like layer colors have ‘Make default’ feature which saves the current cut settings for that color, material lib does the same but with no limit of saved cut setting groups or association of color until you assign it to a color/layer in the active drawing.
It seems the 32 layer limit was baked into Ruida controller firmware and the corresponding RDWorks software. LightBurn (AFAIK) got started as an improvement on RDWorks and used some of the same basic assumptions.
Whether contemporary Ruida controllers still have that limit is unknown, but LightBurn is stuck with it.
As @bLouChip points out, the Material Library lets you (well, me) store a myriad settings as named entries:
Now I need not distinguish Primary Red for cutting 3 mm acrylic from, say, 0xfe0000 for cutting 6 mm acrylic, a daunting task even on a good day.
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