So I have a xTool D1 I bought used that the laser head has apparently degraded to the point that it will only score and engrave at 100% power. I am replacing it with a Laser Tree K20(if anyone has experience with that brand, what did you think of it?) so I am moving from XCS to LightBurn. Obviously LightBurn is much more robust that XCS but I noticed when I’m moving objects in LightBurn the program doesn’t let me know when I have that object in a certain position based on another object. Like if I have 2 identical circles and I move one in horizontal alignment with the other I’ll get some reference lines that will then let me quickly know the distance between the two, can I enable this on LightBurn?
In addition to @RalphU’s suggestion, use the Grid Array and Circular Array tools to lay out regular patterns of identical things, rather than trying to arrange those things by hand after creating them.
If you want one identical copy of a thing at a specific offset from the original:
- Select the thing
- Duplicate it with
Ctrl-D, which selects the copy - Shift the copied thing by adding the offset distances to its location in the
Numeric Editstoolbar - Profit
Plenty of different ways to accomplish the same goal!
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Thanks for the replies!