Rick
September 20, 2023, 7:18pm
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Welcome and thanks for posting your question. The following are worth reviewing to best understand how LightBurn uses boundaries to toggle the fill on and off.
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:
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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:
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In the case above, the design alr…
Shiloh Snowman.lbrn (979.3 KB)
I am using 1/4" clear acrylic with paper of face to make this ornament. The first etching is to allow me to paint the hat, eyes, buttons black. The next removes paper for nose to be orange. The last etching is to frost the body of the snowman.
Here is the problem. When I do the last etching to frost the body of the snowman, it goes over the buttons and eyes, removing the black I painted in the first place. Is there a way to keep the last etching from going ov…
