My daughter gave me an image that she would like me to engrave on a charcuterie board. I plan on engraving in fill mode, but that leaves 14 leaf shaped objects solid black. Using the line tool, I attempted to close off those shapes so that I could use the offset tool to draw a closed shape inside each leaf so that the whole leaf is not solid black. I was able to draw short sections of line to close off each leaf but I could not figure out how to weld the new lines to the existing ones, un-group just those lines that make up the leaf and then use offset to create a new inside line. This would make much more sense if the pictures would upload but it doesn’t look like the forum is going to let me. Instead, I will attempt to draw a word picture. I’ve drawn a leaf at the end of a twig. In line mode the laser will draw the outline of that shape. In fill mode the twig and leaf will be solid black. I need a way to create a smaller leaf shape inside the existing one so that when the laser does fill it will leave the center of the leaf un-burnt. I also wish I could figure out why I can’t upload pictures, but that’s for another post.
if you can post the .lbrn file we can well understand your issue and help you better
I did that, also copy & paste, drag & drop and it never stopped processing the upload, so I gave up. I’ll try the ibrn file.
Charcuterie Board for M.lbrn (281.6 KB)
So, I had to switch to Edge so that I could upload the ibrn file. I’ll try the other pictures.
If done in line mode.
If done in fill.
This is kind of what I’m trying to do. It’s so much easier with pictures.
And there you have it! I still have a little nudging of nodes left to do until I’m completely satisfied with how it looks but YES, that’s how it’s done. Thank you. Man, I really love this software!!
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