Fill box with raised lettering

[firemine (Wes Smith)]

Okay so I am new with all of this and generally my searchfu is pretty good. However, I am either an idiot or I can not find in on the interwebs. I am trying to simply make a filled box with raised letters (same height as surface of the wood). Why am I struggling with this. As you cans see my goal is to fill the red rectangle and leave the letters the same height.

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

You would need to put the text, your green layer, on the red ‘Fill’ layer. Then ‘Preview’ to see results.

This post explains this in detail.

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…