Materials

Safety

Software

Computer Optional

Stepper Motors

Stepper Drivers

Rotating Axis

Laser Modules

Air Assist

Controller

Offline Controllers

Power Supply

Rotating Y

Frame Components

Cabling

Work Table Stands II

Exhaust

Enclosures

Products To Be Built Front Panels

Red Laser Glasses

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Box in Box

Linux Installation

1. Open a terminal and run the following command:
2. sudo adduser $USER dialout && sudo adduser $USER tty
3. IMPORTANT! Log out and log back in (this refreshes the permissions we just added)
4. Download the Linux 64-bit version, either the .run file or the .7z file and follow the appropriate steps below:

.run installer

1. Open your terminal and cd to the directory you downloaded the file to.
2. Run bash ./LightBurn-Linux64-v*.run
3. It will now automatically install and create a program listing in your desktop environment.

.7z installer

1. Extract the folder wherever you want Lightburn to exist
2. Right click AppRun > Properties > Permissions > 'Allow executing file as program'
3. Double click AppRun inside your Lightburn folder

Next: Running LightBurn for the first time

Activating LightBurn

If you've never used LightBurn before, you'll be shown the License and Trial page first. Here you can either enter and activate a license key if you have one, or you can activate a free 30 day trial by clicking "Activate Trial". If you do have a license key, be sure to enter it exactly, including the dashes, then click the 'Activate License' button. We recommend just copying the key and pasting it into the License Key box.

You can get back to this screen in LightBurn at any time by going to the menu and clicking Help > License Management.

Once you have activated your license or the trial, click 'OK'

The next thing you'll see is the 'General Usage Notes' page - this is a brief help page just to get you going. You can get back to it any time in the Help menu, under Help > Quick Help and Notes. Click OK.

You're almost done!

Next Step: Adding your Laser to Lightburn

What if I don't have a laser yet?

We get asked this frequently - You don't ever need to connect a laser to LightBurn to use it, but LightBurn will not run without a device profile configured, because it needs a place to store some settings, and wants to know what options to show you in the interface. If you use a laser that accepts files on a USB drive, for example, LightBurn needs to know which controller it uses so it can produce the correct output files.

If you don't have a laser yet, or don't know what you're going to buy and just want to try it out, you can just set up an arbitrary device profile, because these options don't affect the design side of things, just the machine output and laser settings.

In either case, use Create Manually and configure the things you can, and guess at whatever you don't know - it won't matter in the end. When you finally do get your laser, you can come back to this screen, select the 'dummy' profile you set up, and click 'Remove'. Close the window, restart LightBurn, and the software will guide you through the setup again, pulling many of the settings from the controller of your machine. If you get it mostly right, you can double-click the existing profile, then go through the pages and change anything you need to later. Either way works.