First launch
What you see the first time you open Beam Bench.
When you launch Beam Bench for the first time, you land in an empty workspace.
The Beam Bench workspace on first launch: dark canvas with the bed grid, panels docked on the right and bottom, toolbars on the left and top.
What you see
- A dark window with a large central canvas showing a rectangle (your machine bed) on a grid.
- Toolbars along the top and left edges, with shape and editing tools.
- Panels docked on the right. Cuts/Layers, Move, Console, Macros, and Shape Properties are in the upper-right dock. Laser Control and Material Library are in the lower-right dock.
- A color palette along the bottom edge.
- Rulers along the top and left edges of the canvas, showing positions in millimeters by default.
- No machine connected indicator in Laser Control.
What just happened
Beam Bench created a default project at default machine bed dimensions and a default layer setup. Nothing has been saved yet. The title bar shows the project as unsaved.
The default panel layout assumes a reasonably wide window. If panels look cramped, drag them to float (each panel has a header you can grab) or hide ones you do not need from the Window menu.