Bernie – Laser Engraving

Bernie prepares and runs your laser engraving and cutting jobs, from the first line to the last pass. Free, with no account, no subscription and no ads.

DRAW FOR THE LASER
• A complete vector editor: shapes, nodes, booleans, offsets, arrays, nesting
• Text in your own fonts, text on a path, variable text (serial numbers, dates, CSV files)
• QR codes and barcodes
• Art libraries: your own drawings, plus free libraries to download

ENGRAVE PHOTOS
• Proven dithering (Stucki, Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, halftone…) or grayscale
• Brightness, contrast, gamma and sharpening, with a preview of the engraving
• Trace an image into outlines

SET UP EVERY MATERIAL
• 30 color layers: line, fill, image; speed, power, passes, lead-ins and tabs
• More than 1,800 ready-to-use material settings, grid material tests and calibration patterns

CHECK BEFORE YOU SEND
• Path preview and estimated time, accelerations included
• Pre-flight check: job outside the work area, power, machine settings
• Cut order optimization

RUN YOUR LASER
• Over USB or the network (Wi-Fi, Ethernet): Bernie finds the machine and reads its settings
• GRBL, grblHAL, FluidNC, Marlin, Smoothieware; Ruida over the network; galvo through EZCad export
• Framing, jogging, macros, pause, and STOP always within reach
• Built-in virtual laser: try everything without a machine

AND ALSO
• Camera: the work area under your design, Print & Cut
• Rotary for tumblers and round objects, center finding
• Opens SVG, DXF, PDF, AI, EPS, images and your existing projects; exports G-code
• Built-in user guide in English and French

SAFETY
Confirmation before every job, manual firing off by default, and nothing starts remotely without your approval.

Bernie is free. If you like it, an optional tip helps it grow; it unlocks nothing: everyone gets everything.

USB lasers on Linux: connect the USB access once with sudo snap connect bernie:raw-usb, and make sure your account is a member of the dialout group.