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Clipboard Tools

The clipboard commands are tools for copying, inserting, removing, or duplicating objects in your Workspace, and transfering graphics into and out of LightBurn.

The clipboard commands are accessible in the Edit Menu, Main Toolbar, by hotkey, or by right-clicking in your Workspace to open a context menu.

Info

Your computer's clipboard is a temporary storage location used to save items that you copy, so you can paste them to another location shortly after.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Delete in the Edit Menu

Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete in the Main Toolbar

Copy

Ctrl/Cmd+C

Saves a copy of selected objects to your clipboard.

Cut

Ctrl/Cmd+X

Deletes selected objects in your Workspace while saving a copy of them to your clipboard at the same time.

Duplicate

Ctrl/Cmd+D

Creates copies of selected objects, directly on top of the existing objects.

Paste

Ctrl/Cmd+V

Inserts objects copied to your clipboard into your Workspace. Pasted objects are centered at the location of your cursor at the time of pasting.

Drag and drop directly into LightBurn

You can copy text, vector graphics, and images from other design software, and paste them directly into your LightBurn Workspace.

Paste in Place

Alt/Option+V

Inserts objects copied to your clipboard into your Workspace and positions them according to their location in the project they were copied from.

Delete

Del

Deletes selected objects.

Troubleshooting

  • By default, LightBurn uses your system's clipboard. If you're experiencing slow performance when using the clipboard commands, disable Use System Clipboard in the Settings/Preferences window.

    With this setting disabled, you'll no longer be able to copy and paste from other programs into LightBurn, or between LightBurn windows.

    Disable System Clipboard

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