A second laser should double the output, not the confusion. The question is how the software keeps two machines, two cameras and two jobs apart.
Try Vextrify freeEvery laser needs three things kept separate: its connection, its settings and calibration, and its job. LightBurn handles this with one window per laser, opened through File > New Window, each pointed at its own port. Vextrify keeps everything in one window with a tab per laser, and each tab owns its connection, profile, camera calibration and job.
In LightBurn, one window drives one laser. Users run two machines by opening a second window and selecting the port of the other laser there; LightBurn staff have described the app as built around one connected laser. It works, but each window is set up by hand, and two identical USB lasers are easy to mix up because they look the same in the port list.
Vextrify gives each laser a tab with its own device profile, remembered port, camera binding and calibration, and job card. The connection belongs to the tab it was made in: switching to another tab shows that laser's own state, and a job or a stop in one tab never reaches a different machine. One laser is actively connected at a time; firing several simultaneously is on the roadmap and not shipped.
Label the USB cables, connect one laser at a time when you first set them up, and give each a clear name. Calibrate each camera on its own machine; a camera moved between lasers needs a new alignment. Keep material recipes per machine, because two lasers of the same model can still burn differently.
One LightBurn window controls one laser. Users open a second window (File > New Window) and select the other laser's port there.
Vextrify manages several lasers in one window, each in its own tab with its own port, camera and job. One laser is actively connected at a time; simultaneous firing is on the roadmap.
Yes. Each camera is calibrated and aligned on its own machine, and Vextrify stores that per laser.