An image copied from a browser can be pasted into LightBurn.LightBurn can paste data in known formats from other applications. You can also use the constants e and pi, and functions like sin, cos, tan, sqrt, abs, atan, log, pow, and more. The position, width, and height boxes in LightBurn will accept not just numbers, but also measurements and equations. Holding Shift will increase the movement distance to 5mm, and holding Ctrl will decrease it to 0.2mm. While framing, the arrow keys can be used to nudge the position of your graphics by 1mm. Tab - Select the next shape in the shape list.Holding Shift while pressing, (comma) and.

(comma) and (decimal), usually under, are rotate 90 counterclockwise and clockwise.

Arrow keys - Move the selection (Shift and Ctrl adjust the size of the move).

P - Move the selection to the center of the page.E - Align the selected objects along their horizontal centerlines.C - Align the selected objects along their vertical centerlines.L, R, T, B - Align the selected objects by Left, Right, Top, or Bottom edges.The edit window has a number of single-key shortcuts that are only active when you have clicked in the edit window. If that doesn't do it, restart LightBurn while holding Shift - this skips restoring the saved window layout, and always works.This will undock all windows, and re-dock them in the default order. In the Window menu, choose 'Reset to default layout'.You can reset the window layout in LightBurn in two different ways: Sometimes a window gets shoved off the screen or positioned in a way that makes it hard to find, or move. This works for nearly all controls on the main window. If you point the mouse cursor at a button or window and press F1 (help), LightBurn will launch your browser and open the documentation on the relevant help page for that control.

Nearly everything in LightBurn has pop-up text that will tell you what the control is for, and sometimes gives additional help, like this: Topic-aware help function ¶ We also have a Hotkey reference guide here. LightBurn has a decent number of user interface tricks that aren't always obvious, so we're listing many of them here.

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