Customizing the LightBurn Window

The LightBurn layout is highly customizable — you can choose which windows and toolbars to expose and hide, or undock, move, and re-dock them to a location other than their default position.

Enabling and Disabling UI Elements

Use the Window Menu to enable or disable any toolbar or window in LightBurn. Several windows are not shown by default, and you'll need to enable them in order to access the tools and options they contain.

Enabled windows and toolbars have checkmarks next to their names, and disabled windows do not. Click any window or toolbar to enable it.

Right-click over any toolbar, or over the topbar of any window, to open a window and toolbar selection context menu. Just as in the Window Menu, enabled windows and toolbars have checkmarks next to their names, and disabled windows do not. Click any window or toolbar to enable it.

Toggle Side Panels

Click Toggle Side Panels once to disable all windows that are docked on the left or right side of the Workspace. Click again to re-enable them.

Docking and Undocking

Windows

Click and drag any window from its topbar to undock it — you can leave the window floating anywhere you'd like, or re-dock it to another position.

The dockable area for windows is to the left, right, top, or bottom of the Workspace. You can stack multiple windows on top of one another vertically, or dock them so that they are tabbed together in a shared space.

By default, several windows are stacked and tabbed together on the right side, and no windows are visible on the left.

When you've dragged a window over an area it's possible to dock it to, the area will turn blue or light gray. Release to dock the window.

Note

The current positions of existing toolbars and windows, size of your computer's display, and the size of the LightBurn window all determine where and how many windows can be stacked on top of one another — if you're unable to dock an additional window above another, it is most likely not a valid location. If your LightBurn window is not expanded to the full size of your screen, try maximizing it.

Toolbars

Click and drag any toolbar from the dotted line to undock it — you can leave the toolbar floating anywhere you'd like, or re-dock it to another position.

The dockable area for toolbars is above, below, to the left, and to the right of the Workspace. Toolbars can be stacked on top of one another or docked next to each other.

If the space in which several toolbars are docked is too small to show all of the buttons the individual toolbars contain, you'll see an arrow symbol in a collapsed version of the toolbar. Drag the dotted line to adjust the size of a toolbar, or click the arrow to temporarily expand a toolbar and show all tools it contains.

Space permitting, you can stack toolbars in spaces that are not occupied by any toolbars in the default layout.

Reset to Default Layout

Reset to Default Layout restores the layout of the full LightBurn window to the same format it was in when you first installed and opened LightBurn. If you've made lots of changes to your layout that you want to reverse all at once, or you've lost sight of the Laser Window, Cuts / Layers Window, Color Palette, or any other default windows or toolbars, use this option to get them back.

Resetting the layout doesn't reset anything else — your preferences, devices, and libraries are all preserved.

Go to Window → Reset to Default Layout to re-open and re-dock all default windows in their original order, while closing any that are not visible by default.

If you're using a Windows PC, holding Shift while clicking to open LightBurn will also reset the layout.

For more help using LightBurn, please visit our forum to talk with LightBurn staff and users, or email support.