Identify Your Laser

Internal Note

Need better wording for this.

You'll need to know what type of laser you're using in order to know which LightBurn license you need. Your laser type also affects what your laser is capable of, what the LightBurn UI looks like, and how you interact with your laser.

You'll need to know three things about your laser:

• What controller does your laser use?
• What laser source does your laser use?
• What motion system does your laser use?

There are a few outliers that are unusual in some way. If you have one of the lasers below, click the link for more info about your specific device.

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  xTool F1

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  Others?

Identification Help

TODO: Walk users through identifying their laser type. Billie and Jackie will be working on this together.

Internal note: Flowchart example

Add mermaid to the first line of the code block to make a flowchart

flowchart TD
    subgraph "Laser Source"
    A{"Is the laser beam blue?"} → |Yes|B("`Laser Source: *Diode*`")
    A → |No|C{"`Does your laser mark bare metal?`"}
    C → |Yes|D("`Laser Source: *Fiber*`")
    C → |Yes|E("`Laser Source: *CO~2~ *`")
    end
    subgraph "Motion System"
    F{"Does the laser's head move while cutting?"} → |Yes|G("`Motion System: *Gantry*`")
    F → |No|H("`Motion System: *Galvo*`")
    subgraph
    end

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