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Convert LightBurn LBRN2 to XCS (Beta)

Open LightBurn designs in xTool Creative Space: .lbrn2 and .lbrn projects become .xcs files with the same layers and settings.

Opens: XCS, XS, LBRN2, LBRN, SVG
Saves: LBRN2, SVG, XCS

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.xcs, .xs, .lbrn2, .lbrn, .svg · up to 150 MB
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    An xTool Creative Space project (.xcs), an xTool Studio project (.xs), a LightBurn project (.lbrn2 or .lbrn) or an SVG drawing.

    Options

    Automatic: .xcs becomes LightBurn + SVG; LightBurn and SVG become .xcs.

    More options

    Only used when an .xcs file is created. “Keep” uses the machine saved in an xTool file, otherwise a D1 Pro.

    Hidden xTool layers and objects are kept as layers that are switched off (not output).

    Lists every layer with its settings below the drawing, on its own layer. Delete it before cutting.

    Your files are deleted after processing.

    xTool Creative Space doesn't open LightBurn projects. If you have a design as .lbrn2 and run your xTool laser from xTool's software, this page turns it into an .xcs file with the same layers and settings, so you don't have to export an SVG and set up every layer again.

    How to convert LightBurn to XCS

    1. Upload the .lbrn2, or an older .lbrn project. Files from LightBurn 0.8 up to 2.1 are read.
    2. Open More options and pick your machine (D1, S1, F1, F2, P2, P3, M1 and their variants) under xTool machine for the .xcs file. Otherwise the project is set up for a D1 Pro, and you can switch the device after opening it.
    3. Load the downloaded .xcs in xTool Creative Space.
    4. Check every layer's settings, frame the job and test on scrap first.

    How LightBurn layers are translated

    Each LightBurn layer becomes its own colour in the .xcs with a processing type:

    • Fill layers become fill engraving, with the line interval turned into xTool's line density.
    • Image layers become bitmap engraving, with grayscale or Jarvis dithering (other LightBurn dither modes map to Jarvis).
    • Line layers become cut or score. LightBurn has no separate score mode, so the layer name decides: words such as score, mark, etch, engrave or fold mean score, cut or through mean cut, and the first of them wins. If the name says neither, layers at 100 mm/s or faster count as score and slower ones as cut.

    Power, speed and number of passes are copied 1:1, because both programs use percent and mm/s. Kerf offset carries over too.

    What changes on the way

    • Text: LightBurn normally stores an outline of every text object, and that outline is used. Text saved without one can't go into an .xcs; convert it to a path in LightBurn and upload again. The result tells you if this happened.
    • Fill + Line layers lose their outline pass and Offset Fill becomes a normal fill.
    • QR codes and barcodes are skipped.

    Settings are not adapted to your laser

    The numbers suit whatever machine the designer used; on another laser the same values may char the material or barely mark it. Treat them as a starting point.

    Starting from an SVG instead? See SVG to XCS. To go the other way, see opening XCS files in LightBurn.

    More about what this tool reads and writes: xTool XCS ↔ LightBurn & SVG Converter.

    More with xTool XCS ↔ LightBurn & SVG Converter

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