LightBurn is gearing up for a V 2.0 release with a public release candidate, which brings a host of new features to the popular laser cutter software.
The release is headlined by a new dark mode, which users can toggle depending on their visual preference. There’s also a roster of new shapes – stars, triangles, pentagons – that users can click to generate, then drag to adjust size and location. Once created, they can make use of a fresh “Edit Nodes” submenu tool that enables further customization (for example, by rounding a sharp corner).
An “experimental” camera calibration function looks interesting here, as well. It live-tracks an AprilTags pattern to correct for lens distortion and improve positional accuracy in real-time.
The software’s UI has been slightly updated, too, with a streamlined way of executing Boolean operations and new icons for the cuts and layers windows that should provide better clarity for users.
Top that off with a host of bug fixes and smaller-scale improvements, and this seems like a release worth exploring. While there’s a very brief blog post introducing the release candidate, you’ll probably want to head to LightBurn’s forum instead, where you’ll find a full rundown of its new additions.
Release candidates are betas, not to be considered stable, that allows users to try out new features. There’s no official timeline for this version’s full stable release, but you can expect it sometime soon. In the mean time, if you’re keen to check out upcoming LightBurn features or help the software’s development, the release candidate might be worth checking out.
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