Rick
April 30, 2021, 9:43pm
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No - no, you can save, load and reuse setting several ways, I think this is more about knowing what options you have and how they behave. You can set Defaults for a Layer, you can load layer settings from a file, you can save settings to a ‘Material Library’ for recall at any time. You have options.
You can drag the template file into LightBurn, or double-click it in Explorer to launch or open it in LightBurn - That would let you make shortcuts to them on your desktop.
From the sound of it, you really only need a couple of preset layers though, so the easier way would be to just use this button in the Cut Settings edit window for each layer you use:
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Then enable this in the settings:
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…just save a template file of settings. Make a file that has all the cut settings set the way you like, then delete all the objects from it so the project is empty. Save that. LightBurn normally saves only the cut info attached to objects in a file, but if the project is empty, it assumes you want a cut settings template, and saves all of the cut settings.
Materials Library reference:
We are in the process of a rewrite of our documentation and training materials so, yes, this video link has changed. The following is a video produced by a reseller of LightBurn covering the Materials Library. The video was produced a while ago so may not cover everything, nor be as up to date as we’d like, but we are working to provide these updated learning resources as fast as possible.
[LightBurn Lesson 4 for Emblaser 2 - Material Library]
I also suggest you take a look at the …
I was trying to use the material library in LB and it isn’t doing what I expected. I went to the documentation on GitHub and am still was having problems. There is a video that is linked to from the document but it goes to Vimeo ( Video Tutorial #1: Using the Material Library ) but it comes back with a error saying it can’t find the page. I looked on the YouTube page and couldn’t find it either.
I’m just looking for a more in depth description of how to do things in the library and figured tha…
