Lightburn API - simple text marking

[gilaraujo (Gil Araújo)]

Not necessarily an API but you might want to read and search on the forum for Lightburn UDP

Launch LightBurn and Load Files into LightBurn using Command Line Interface

LightBurn has a fairly minimal command line interface through UDP commands to do things like launch the program and launch the program + load a file. The attached file is Python, not text. LightBurnLoad.txt (674 Bytes) All commands will send back “OK” if they received and handled. You can also send “PING” just to see if LightBurn is running. If it’s not, you won’t get an “OK”.

There have been other discussions about modifying the LBRN file programmatically.

Help with .lbrn file format needed

My goal is to automatically create .lbrn files to batch process laser engraving orders. My original .lbrn file saved with LightBurn contains 1 image and 2 text objects, each located in their own layer. I need to replace the image by another one (replace the image path), the strings of the 2 text objects as well as their font, and I need to adjust the laser power and travel speed of the 3 layers depending on the material to be engraved. This is quite simple to do in the XML files but I have a …

Which might be a possible use case for your workflow, combining UDP + LBRN handling

Others might add more ideas to the pot