Engraving help!

[hmastle (ben)]

Hi Guys

I am trying to engrave a border around my project . but everytime I set the border in the fill under my set blue colour it wants to engrave the whole project .

can you advise where I am going wrong > ?

[Allen (Allen Massey)]

Use the offset tool to draw a new border line just inside the border line you have. The larger the offset distance the wider the border will be.

[domm434 (Joe Alexander)]

run it as line just lower power and faster than you would do cutting. It will engrave just the line.

[Blake (Blake Bartlett)]

Or if you already have the border set up, boolean subtract the inside part from the outside.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

When setting an object to ‘Fill’, LightBurn uses the boundaries of objects to toggle the fill on and off as shown in the images in the post below.

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…