Beam Bench Documentation
Safety, getting started, full reference, troubleshooting, and the concepts behind a desktop laser engraving app built for makers.
Beam Bench is a free desktop app for driving laser engravers and cutters. A modern, fast, opinionated tool for makers.
It is currently in beta. Expect rough edges. Please report what breaks.
Start here
- Safety: read this first. Lasers cause fires and blindness.
- Get Started: install through your first burn, in a single linear path.
- Reference: every panel, tool, dialog, setting, and hotkey, one page each.
When you hit a wall
- Troubleshooting: symptoms and fixes for the things that commonly go wrong.
- Explainers: what dithering actually is, why fill mode matters, what the difference between job origin and workspace origin is.
- Community & support: Facebook group, GitHub, and how to send a bug report from inside the app.
Looking for something specific
- Guides: task-driven walkthroughs grouped by goal (hardware setup, firmware, camera, projects, quality, automation).
- FAQs: the recurring questions.
- Release notes: what changed in each version.
A note on this site
The docs evolve alongside the app. If a page contradicts what the app does, the app is right. Use the Send feedback action in the app to tell us, or open an issue in the Facebook community group.