Boolean subtract wont working or enable!

LightBurn Software Questions
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Gday,

I am trying to put “I love you” handshape on the front of the background and remove the background section inside of the handshape with boolean subtract, but it won’t let me.

I’ve watched YouTube videos, and they look so simple processing, but it won’t work on my PC! I’m about to throw my PC out of the window!

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I just want empty space inside of handshape, its too much to ask?!

Thank you

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There are two conditions required for boolean operations to be made available:

  1. You’re working with exactly 2 shapes or groups of shapes at a time. Make sure each set of shapes is grouped for this to work. Again, you must have 2 and only 2 sets of shapes
  2. All shapes must be closed, meaning that there are no open shapes anywhere in the set of shapes to be booleaned. A closed shape has contiguously joined line segments that meet at the ends.

Are you meeting both criteria for these?

If not, correct and retry.

If this isn’t making sense then upload the .lbrn file that you’re working with for review.

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Hello,

Thank you for quick respond.

I’m aware of groups. Both of them are grouped separately, Background and Handshape.

How can I check for closed? Both of them look close to me.

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There is a file.

Ill transfer money to you for some beers!

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Set layer to fill, tell you right away if shape is closed. Won’t fill if not closed. Auto Join and Close Path with Tolerance are your friends.

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Edit->Select Open Shapes is the easiest way to identify hard to find open shapes.

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I had both on fill and still can’t do boolean subtract. I got this file from esty, I’m not sure if its closed or not.

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Look here:

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Fk me! 3 hours wasted on this unclosed 1mm space!

At least I learned about selecting open shapes.

Thank you for your help. PM your PayPal, and I’ll transfer your beer money!

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Glad you got it sorted.

Appreciate the thought but not necessary. Put it to a charity you care for or buy something nice for someone you love.

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I started playing with it, deleted the open shape, un-grouped the hand, put the inner part of the hand on a different layer and hid it. duplicated the rest of the hand, subtracted. Put the hand back together.

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Etsy artwork sometimes take some messing around, but a handy resource.

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Its look good. How do you fill up all line gaps like in your artwork?

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Don’t quite understand your question, say again?

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How do you fill up your lines? Thick black lines and Thick orange Lines.

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Also can I change size of nodes? its bit difficult to see. Sometimes I tried to break the node but nothing happen?

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Got it.
Group them and set layer to fill.

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Didnt work on mine?

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Try this

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Don’t quite understand “Change size of nodes”

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I enable it but its other way around, haha.

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Those nodes are tiny and difficult to see them for break the line.