Lùmen guide

Everything Lùmen does, in the order you meet it: connect your laser, prepare the project, check it, run the job.

Getting started

The window The connection bar, the canvas, the toolbar, the side panel in Simple and Advanced, and the status bar. Your first job From a starter project to a finished job on the virtual laser, in six steps you can follow without a machine. Connect your laser Choose your machine and connect it over USB or Wi-Fi; what Lùmen reads from the controller. The virtual laser Run a job without an engraver: the head and the burns on the canvas, at up to fifty times the real speed.

Create a project

Projects and files Open, save and export: the project you can edit again, the G-code that runs without the Mac, and .lumen starter projects. Drawing and paths The pen, Edit Points, Convert to Path, Combine Shapes, Offset Path and Break Apart. Images Import a photo or a logo, compare it with the processed preview, choose size, mode and dithering. SVG, DXF and LightBurn files Bring in a drawing or a LightBurn project and decide, colour by colour or layer by layer, what to cut, score, engrave or ignore. QR codes and barcodes Codes as editable objects: content, type and size, and whether they still scan once engraved.

Prepare the job

Materials and the test grid Starting values for engrave, score and cut, fitted to your laser, and a grid to find your own. Engrave, score and cut Every object has an operation: how to assign it, order the passes and set speed, power and passes. Origin and Show Frame Machine Home or Custom Origin, jogging the head, and tracing the outline on the real piece. Job preview Replay the job line by line: the order of the passes, the moves with the laser off, the time it will take.

Run the job

Start, pause and resume The countdown, the progress readout, Pause and Stop, and resuming a stopped job from where it was. Job history The jobs you ran on each machine, and how their real times make the next estimate better.

Advanced tools

Arrange objects Select several objects, move them precisely, align, flip, and repeat them in a grid or a circle. Rotary attachment Engrave cups and bottles with a roller or chuck rotary, and go back to the flat bed. Air assist Turn the pump on and off with the job, when your controller has an air assist output. Calibrate the axes When 100 mm doesn’t come out 100 mm: burn two pairs of marks, measure them, and Lùmen corrects the steps per millimetre in the machine. Design with an AI assistant Let Claude or another MCP client prepare the design; the machine stays in your hands. Keyboard shortcuts The shortcuts worth knowing on the canvas and in the menus. Settings and license Language, notifications, privacy and your license.

Troubleshooting

Connection, alarms and console Start from what you see: the laser isn’t listed, won’t connect, or stops during a job. Engraving quality Too light, too dark or hard to read: change one setting at a time, on the same material.

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