Here I can see the position of my mouse, and the angle I have rotated the shape to while I'm rotating it. When dragging, scaling, or rotating shapes, the bottom status bar in the main window will often show feedback, like this: By default the rotation is "free", however holding the Ctrl key will snap it to 5 degree increments. The circular arrows shown at the four corners are used to rotate the shape. The center square that appears is a movement handle - you can click and drag it to reposition the shape, however you can also click anywhere on the boundary of the shape to do this, and you don't even have to select it first - Simply click the boundary, and while continuing to hold the left button, drag the shape. Holding the Ctrl key (or Command on MacOS) makes the action symmetrical, using the center of the object as the anchor instead of the other side. When dragging any of the sizing adjustments, the behavior is asymmetric - the other side of the object acts like an anchor and stays in place. You can override that by holding the Shift key while dragging a corner. When dragging one of the four corners, the shape will maintain its relative width to height (aspect ratio) so it doesn't 'stretch'. If you move the mouse over one, the cursor will change to show that the action is available. The small squares around the outside of the selection can be clicked and dragged to resize the selection from that side or corner.
When one or more shapes are selected, several controls appear around them, like this: (Note that on MacOS, the Command key is used instead of the Ctrl key) Moving, Resizing, and Rotating Ctrl: Holding Ctrl by itself will toggle the selection state of the new selection.Ctrl+Shift: Holding both Ctrl and Shift will remove the new selection from the current one.Shift: Holding Shift while selecting will add the new selection to the current one.To supplement click-select and rectangle selection, LightBurn supports these modifier keys: Selecting a shape with a crossing selection means that if the rectangle crosses the shape at all, the shape will be selected: If you drag from right to left, you'll see a green rectangle. Selecting a shape with an enclosing selection means the shape must be completely contained by the rectangle in order to select it. If you drag from left to right, you'll see a red rectangle. There are two types of drag selection: Enclosing Selection Drag the rectangle out over a number of shapes and let go to select them. If you click an empty space in the edit window and drag the cursor, a selection rectangle appears. To clear the current selection, left click an empty space in the view, or press the Esc key. The direction that the pattern animates shows the direction that the shape will be cut in (unless you tell LightBurn that it's ok to choose a different direction). Locked shapes, however, do not show any of these selection controls, as shown below. The selection shown above is also comprised of unlocked shapes, as denoted by the fact that the move, resize, and rotate controls are shown. The two circles on the right are grouped - visible because the pattern is a combination of dots and dashes. The circle in the middle is selected, and it is a simple shape, because the pattern is just simple dashes. There are several things you can tell from this pattern: The shape will change from solid to an animated pattern of dashes. Point at the outline of a shape and click with the left mouse button to select it. The selection arrow is used to choose which things in your workspace you want to change, and there are number of different ways that selection happens in LightBurn.
You'll likely use this more than any other tool in LightBurn.
The shape creation tools are the basic ways you build stuff from scratch in LightBurn, along with the Selection tool, and the 'Click to Position' tool. Numeric Edits - size, position, orientation
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