I have been using lightburn for some time but only recently got a camera. I installed and calibrated with no issues and ran through a couple of demos all with no issues.
I have an image in lightburn and I want to position it in the center of an object to be burned.
I cannot find any instructions on how to do it. I see the (in my case a bowl) in the camera window and I have the image loaded in lightburn. But I cannot find out what to do next.
The lightburn documentation (Index - LightBurn Documentation) is useless. I have the camera screen looking like the picture, but tI don’t know what to do next.
In the following video, I have tagged the spot showing how you can use the camera tools to align your art visually, and directly on the object you want, where you want. Have a look and fire back with any additional questions.
One way you can do it would be to update the overlay and trace it, such that you get the shape of the bowl as outline. Put that one on a tool layer. Then position your design into it and use the align functions to align the design perfectly centered to the tool layer shape (a circle, I guess). Then you can burn it.
You don’t even need the camera for this. You can use current position as start position and use the center of your design as the origin. Then use the center finder tool of LB to center the laser head physically into the center of your object. Then start the job.
Thanks your second solution solved the problem. I didn’t understand origin and home before. Now I am good. But as you said it doesn’t use the camera.
I would set the plate in the center of camera view, then select and drag the image to the center as well. CTRL P will send selection to center of workspace.
