Fitting text to path

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

The grouping and order of selection is important when using LightBurn.

https://lightburnsoftware.github.io/NewDocs/ModifierTools.html#weld

Here are a few posts that walk through some different uses of the Boolean tools that might help.

Boolean Weld of Words on Words

Not yet, but it is planned for this and many other things within LightBurn. You may have seen the video we did for making a WIFI QRCode project. This example is what we want to do for a bunch of workflows and tasks one can do to learn a ton of LightBurn goodness while making something useful as the result. We really want to make more of these, but feature additions have priority. Now, how to recreate something that looks like the image you provided (one possible workflow): Create large…

Boolean Subtraction Questions

[Skærmbillede 2020-06-30 kl. 19.47.38] I want to pull the black squares from the red ring. I succeed, but in a strange way, I think. [Skærmbillede 2020-06-30 kl. 19.49.08] First, I group the squares and make sure they protrude across the red circle. I first mark the grouped squares then the red circle, then I press Boolean Subtract but get a “wrong” result. [Skærmbillede 2020-06-30 kl. 19.49.25] When I press Undo and then again on Boolean Subtract - I get the desired result. [Skærmbill…

Engraving oddly shaped items (like guitar bodies)

Here’s one for the gang: How would you go about setting up Lightburn to engrave an oddly shaped item like a guitar body? It has several irregular curves, several cut-outs (that aren’t uniform in size or shape and would be nice to not engrave into even way out of focus…) and many aren’t the same shape. Imagine you are given four guitar bodies, in four different shapes. You are also given the attached artwork and would like to put it ONLY on the flat parts of the guitar body, what is the fastest…