Burning/engraving inverted text/logo

[AntVitale (Anthony)]

Hello friends,

Looking for a good way to burn (engrave) everything outside of text/logo for a client. I’ve been playing around with a bunch of different settings but can’t find anything that will do what I’m looking for.

Short story is they want everything outside of their logo/text to be burnt but everything else to be untouched. (personally I think it’s gonna end up looking dumb but you do what gotta do lol)

Anyone have any good suggestions? Thx

Ant

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

Are you burning concrete, with a 2 watt laser? Just teasing, might want to add more information since there is none here to advise you about anything.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@AntVitale

Looking for a good way to burn (engrave) everything outside of text/logo for a client

Best to start with understand how LightBurn used boundaries to define the area to be filled.

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…

Another example:

Try to make a fill but it is not what i like to have

Hello, I try to make a frontplate for a power unit. I like to do this as a scan (Fill) It has to do al of the black lines and the red lines must be cut out. But all i get are black areas and not only the lines. What do i wrong?? Johan [image] [image]

[Kris1 (Chris)]

Select ‘all’ and put the outer line on a seperate layer ‘line’.
Put the rest on the same layer.
Then read next post below

[Kris1 (Chris)]

The inner lines which you want to ‘cut’ out ‘duplicate’ each one and put on seperate layer.
According to my preview that should work.
Hopefully it works for you.

It’s just a quick example but i think it’s what you’re after.