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[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

You have not said what version of LightBurn you are using. In my sample of ‘Trace Image’, you will see that I do not have any ‘Cutoff’ set and have the ‘Threshold’ set to 85. All other settings are defaults. When you do the same, are you saying you do not get the same results?

@Hampel

I was the that reversed.

Not really clearer. Things that are showing as black in the ‘Preview’ are the cuts defined in the job. You can “see” this if you zoom way in. If you want to invert the area cut in the job, you need to add an additional bounding or small offset to the art.

Here is a post that describes how boundaries are used to define what gets filled in your artwork.

How do I invert (negate) a vector engraving?

If you want to invert a vector engraving (Fill layer) you need to add an outline to it. Think about what happens when you scan a circle, compared to the letter ‘O’. The inner ring of the O toggles the fill. If you add another shape (like a square) outside it, it negates the whole thing: [image] And a slightly different example, this time done by changing the outer line around the design to a ‘Line’, instead of leaving it as part of the Fill layer: [image] In the case above, the design alr…