Tip ‘O the Day - Two-Point Rotation / Scale Tool

LightBurn Software Questions Tips and Tricks
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LightBurn provides a Two-Point Rotation / Scale tool to help with complex alignment and scaling.

Here’s the primary use case - aligning shapes:

Snapping is covered in the documentation here: Redirecting...

and here: LightBurn Tips - LightBurn Software Documentation

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Tried the Two-point Rotation / scale tool using the same shapes as shown in the LightBurn video.
I can align the two shapes. However the rectangle does not scale to the second point.

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Did you hold the shift key down?
Is working for me.

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No, I did not. I did not see where it says to hold the shift key down. But now that I know to hold the shift key down, it works fine.

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We show the steps and options on the Status bar at the bottom to help, so always good to peek at that. :slight_smile:

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I was using version 1.0.0.0 and the instructions did not say hold shift key to scale. Good reason to always use the latest version of LightBurn.

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Always worked this way. :wink:

From the official 1.0 release announcement:

Two point rotate & scale

Lets you pick a rotation point on a shape, and rotate / scale it freely around that point. Designed to let you align one shape to another, like trying to align text to a slanted edge. Press Ctrl+2 to start the tool, and follow the prompts at the bottom of the screen.

Note the “…and follow the prompts at the bottom of the screen.”