Create Custom Designs by Combining Shapes in LightBurn

Unlock some of LightBurn's most powerful design tools including weld, cut shapes, and the boolean modifiers; union, subtraction/ difference, and intersection. Each of these tools allows you to combine and manipulate shapes to create more complex ones.

If you want to make ornaments, signs, monograms, stencils, fretwork, nameplates and much more, this tutorial will help you on your way!

Dive into more detail with our documentation about the topics covered in this video, and others that will help you make custom designs:

[emailausdrucker]

The World needs more software like Lightburn.

[toddshepard]

Lightburn is perhaps the 2nd best software application I have ever had only behind excel. Good job Lightburn.

[schlotdoglaser]

The Booleen tools to me is worth the price of the the other stuff is just icing on the cake!. Keep up the great work Oz and company

[edwardlucas]

THANK YOU! I was having a hard time welding 3 simple shaped...it kept leaving the connecting line between 2 of the 3. I watched the video 3 times and finally paid attention to "OVERLAPPING SHAPES". I moved the troubled shape to overlap the other and BOOM! Done.

[arthurschwieger]

Now I know why I can undo and re-subtract and it does something different. Thank you for that distinction! 🙂

[CaliVapor]

This video showed up one day after I figured it out 😂 my image trace outline I wanted to cut was wonky and had to edit some nodes to make the cookie cutter work for a geometric background. Is there a way to make the layer directly behind the image not output? That would be easier than making a cookie cutter. Thank you LightBurn!

[joecorey]

They need to develop software for the hobby cnc routers.

[jjdominguez]

I would like to see a video on how to make a test card, for the Laserpecker LX1 and Laserpecker 4 in lightburn. thank you so much

[themjsays]

What if I need to cutout an image, like a tiger paw, with individual toes, yet make sure the toes are connected to the meat of paw so they do not fall away or separate from the image?

[cook]

When I draw images e.g. boxes, circles, polygons they are all black. How do I turn that off?

[Cornelis-Dz]

The cutting part I can't get my head around. I have tried many times but it remains unclear.

[drava]

When will be possible edit text nodes?

[JM_Tushe]

Wish my CO2 machine (mkz-antifl4x4bla) were supported, Corel and Shenzou aren't as good and easy to use compared to Lighburn. :((

[fransantelli]

what if you just want to make a donut, or ring shape!? in the software my laser came with i easily figured out how to join two circles to create a donut, or ring shape. with this software.. that simple task seems like rocket science.