LightBurn 0.7.02 Released - Camera improvements, transparent images, lots of fixes by LightBurn Software

This one took a while. The biggest change is that the camera lens and alignment wizards have been completely re-written, making the process much simpler to follow. There's no more chessboard capture either - you now use your laser to mark a calibration pattern onto a piece of material to align the camera, making it much more precise, and a lot easier.

There have been a number of new additions, and a lot of bug fixes, so bear with us:

Additions:

Transparent PNGs now keep their transparency, and still work correctly when tracing, negating, and dithering

Ruida devices now have full Z-axis support

Older Grbl firmware (1.1e or earlier) now supported

There's a new button to save the preview image

AI importing ignores zero-length objects, or "curves" that are actually straight lines (helps with duplicate removal)

Delete Duplicates has been improved for imported AI files

Added user-programmable macros to the console for gcode users

Added "Mirror across a line" feature

Frame / O-Frame with "Cut Selected" now frames only the current selection

Node edit mode now highlights the first point in a shape (prep for specifying the cut start)

French, German, and Dutch translations (still ongoing)

Bug fixes:

Fixed a crash when importing PDF / AI files with embedded images

Fixed a bug where tracing very light images didn't work

Fixed a crash when trying to import binary DXFs

Fixed a comms issue with some Ruida controllers when framing

Fixed bugs when framing after cutting on gcode devices

Cancelling "Open project" now actually cancels.

"Fire Laser" button is now auto-disabled when starting a job

Perforation settings are now properly saved

DXFs with scaled / rotated block insert references are now supported

SVG files with 'T'-style quadratic curves are now supported

Lots of numeric displays were updated to properly support Inch mode

GCode in international locales now correctly emits without commas

Fixed a "sometimes" bug with GCode precision in Inch mode

Fixed an issue where changing from inch to mm with a cut selected could alter the stored speed value

Fixed a bug when joining a line and a curve where the curve would shoot to the origin

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