I want to re-order the default palette order to ensure certain things are cut first. I know that I can select a color and move it up/down but when I import another drawing, it resets the order and I have to manually again.
I need it to go blue/green/black/red. I’ve got hundreds of drawings that exist in this order already and the software that generates things in this order pre-dates lightburn. So, any ideas how to make the order stick from drawing to drawing? Between sessions also if possible.
When you import your layers from another program, don’t you need to customize all the values to LB anyway?
And no, you can’t (I can’t) not change the individual location of the lower color layer selection.
I feel your pain, the best solutions I’ve found are:
Click on the bar just above the layers list and do a “Sort cuts last” - which usually gets them in the right order for me.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with having a lightburn file with something tiny in all of my layers and correctly set but positioned off the top of the cut area.
For designs that I use all the time, I went to the trouble of resetting the colours, but I’m not sure how consistent that is as I seem to see the layer order being out of whack quite frequently,
Then I just drag and drop or cut and paste my SVG into lightburn.
Be interested to see if there are better ideas.
Nope. I do my design in AutoCAD and the layer colours I use are the same as LightBurn’s palette.
I share OP’s pain, though. It’s frustrating having to jump through hoops to work around LightBurn’s inability to remember cut order.
I have settled on having a read-only LightBurn project that has a non-cutting border which is my bed size and a small circle of each layer outside the cutting area so they don’t ever get completely deleted. I never create a new project; I load this one, import my design, and save as a new name.
I don’t recognize your problem, my projects retain/remember all individual settings, including cut order. However, I also make all my designs exclusively in LightBurn and the ones I import I still have to customize before I can use them.
Interesting. If for example I load a LB project, delete all vectors, then import a DXF file, the layer order is now sorted by number, not the order the project had when it was loaded.
Edit: Also, if I remove all vectors on a single layer, then add a new vector on that layer, the layer is placed at the end of the cut order, rather than where it had been.
I’m using v1.2.01 from 2022 - maybe this has been fixed in the meantime.
In my (current) version, the C00 - Layer 00 is automatically used for all new Shapes. If I change this current Shape to Layer 2 and save it as a test file, it is still C00 that is used for new Shapes when opening LB.
OP here, my software converts into a .pdf and doesn’t have layers rather colors (technically). I have used other laser software where the palettes and color order are remembered.
As mentioned, I have software the pre-dates lightburn and there is a reason for the colors selected but it sounds like lightburn is making the users adapt rather than the other way around. At the very least, it seems that a user selected order is something that should be persistent between drawings and sessions. The power/speed settings for a given color are already stored and persistent and maybe lightburn should add this as a standard. It only makes sense, IMHO.
So from what I can gather there is no easy fix for this. Fellow laser people, thanks for such rapid responses.