Adobe Illustrator File Not Importing Colors Into Lightburn

LightBurn Software Questions
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I am struggling with the import function. I’m running Lightburn on a Mac with Monterey 12.5.1 for reference.

I have an AI file that has 6 colors plus black. The colors are the RGB colors Lightburn uses by default to create the distinctions between areas I want to engrave versus cut, etc.

If I Import the AI file directly, it erases the color and makes everything black, ignoring the color distinctions you can see below. If I use any other file type (I have tried PDF, JPG, PNG, and SVG) the same issue occurs. This is the PNG file for reference, I couldn’t upload the AI or PDF files.

Fireball_with_color
Fireball_with_color2925×4800 3.4 MB

I am frustrated, and I’d love some help.

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Image filetypes (e.g. PNG, JPG) for sure will not retain layer information which is ultimately what the colors are about.

SVG should retain. I believe AI is meant to retain the layers but I do recall some potential issues there but I’m not as familiar.

Can you post the SVG file here? Also the AI file which you can upload by add “.TXT” as a suffix to the file.

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Here is the SVG–Fireball_with_color
And the AI, linked in Google Drive-- https://drive.google.com/file/d/14MNIN7LRt5uMexZKU5hukrfbdwh8YN0l/view?usp=sharing

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It would appear the SVG isn’t importing correctly, no clue why. I’m absolutely baffled.

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try to edit the extention in yourfilename.sv then post it

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it looks like the AI file is made up of raster images in different layers plus one vector layer? Is that right?

I don’t see the images in the SVG file.

I’m not certain but I suspect it’s because you are using images that the layers are not being separated.

Are you able to retain the original vector shapes rather than using raster images?

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That seems to have fixed it! I didn’t Image Trace + Expand the files before trying to bring them into Lightburn, and once I did that everything worked out basically the way I wanted it. I appreciate your help.

This tutorial is what I used, in case it is helpful for anyone else.

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