Master Variable Text In Lightburn

This will be an in depth demonstration using variable text in Lightburn. I will show you how to design and setup using Variable Text. This will be FULL of information and you don't want to be late for this stream. Set a reminder. Set an alarm.

[@kat2tree]

Awesome live stream! Thank you for all you do! Happy, Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a great one!!! Enjoy and have fun!!! 🎊🎂🎉🎁🍦👏🐶

[@HoboWithWood]

Thanks so much

[@trigeek38]

Just now getting to watch this episode and have comment about reason for Bake feature.
Bake can be helpful if you want to preprocess each piece before printing.
As a test, I created a softball roster with name, position, throws and bats. Using Bake, based on each girls position, I was able to pull in an image of a softball player representing their position (pitcher, catcher, infield, outfield). You have to manually ctrl-z back and keep track of start and end positions, but this allowed me to further customize the piece based on values within the csv before printing. Hope that makes sense.

[@steven67856]

Hi just started watching last nights live stream happy birthday 👍

[@HoboWithWood]

Hey, thanks

[@trigeek38]

Also, CSV is just an extension. You can even use Notepad and just make sure you save the file as [filename].csv it should work. Just make sure that each line has the same number of values, separated by a comma. Also, make sure there are no commas in the values themselves.
You can choose to add the header values or not.

[@sicciful]

that's an educational video, thanks Steve for the info
and have a very happy birthday🎂🍺I was born on 4/7/1969

[@HoboWithWood]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@woody8354]

I can see using the bake function on numbers in an array that do not change, such as on a wasteboard grid instead of typing in the numbers manually.

[@Jay.C.H]

Happy Birthday 🎉

[@Jay.C.H]

In regards to a middle initial. If you have an empty cell in your cover file, it should not put a space in the middle initial spot unless there is a space in that field.

[@HoboWithWood]

Maybe it shouldn't, but it does.

[@pblais404]

I came in late on the stream but I saw that you saw no reason for bake... I wish I could have asked why are we harping so much on BAKE... LOL

[@KariHannunen]

Variable Text, Cut Setting
Try this
L
C 00 C00,S,P
C 02 C02,S,P
You can also use this
L
'Layer,' C 00 C00,S,P
'Layer,' C 02 C02,S,P

[@HoboWithWood]

Thanks, we finally figured it out at the end. That's what I love about working with a community. We fumbled and bumbled until we found the right outcome.

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

csv comma separated values