Filling Shapes & Text etc

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@spiritburner

When you actually set the layer to “fill” and adjust the “gap” will it then display the image as a “filled image” ?

In the ‘Preview’ window, yes. You can also set the workspace to display the fills by selecting the ‘Filled / Coarse’ or ‘Filled / Smooth’ options under the ‘Window’ menu at the top.

@spiritburner

would I create a new layer as a “line” layer so the software then understands what is a cut line and what is a filled object?

Each layer provides its own settings, so yes.

I might suggest you review our documentation and YouTube videos for a better understanding of the LightBurn workflow. Here is one that talks about layers and how they work. I guarantee this will work much better than crossing your fingers.

Tip ‘O the Day - Using Layers in LightBurn

Here is another in a series of useful Tips, Tricks and How-to videos. In this tutorial we look at the use of layers in LightBurn and how they can be applied to your job. Layers provide the ability to perform multiple operations in a single job including order of operations and setup tasks. Thanks @CarlFisher [LightBurn Tutoral: Using Layers]