Help - making closed shapes for engraving

LightBurn Software Questions
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Hello everyone,

I swear I have read many topics about closed shapes etc on the Forum and spent hours on Youtube but can’t figure an easy way to cut a closed shape from an object so that I may engrave thicker lines.

I quite often use Coreldraw and don’t have many difficulties but I am pushing myself to master Lightburn so I can ditch Corel.

I am wanting to trim the squiggly lines with the inner shape line so that they are closed shapes that I can engrave. If I trim each line with the node tool and “T” it comes up saying that there are open shapes when previewing in LB.

Is there an easy way to trim the lines to the outer shape and effectively seal it so it is one shape? Not sure if that makes sense…

Any ideas are appreciated. I have included a pic and the LB file for reference :slight_smile:

squigggle pic

Squiggles.lbrn2 (106.2 KB)

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This?

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You have to use the Cut Shapes tool but “fill” the blue layer first so that the blue shapes remain closed.
Squiggles_edited.lbrn2 (165.4 KB)

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Yes thank you :slight_smile:

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Thank you parsec for linking to that video, I missed that one!!

I see that my error was treating the red line as the closed shape for the cutting tool. I have had to seperate the red lines and connect one end to the other so effectively that made two seperate loops! Not sure if my explanation makes sense :slight_smile:

Thanks so much to both of you. It was driving me crazy haha

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Sorry had to go to dinner.
As apparently what you did, I closed on of the two lines and then cut and deleted the outside. That then left the other line.

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I hope your dinner was enjoyable :slight_smile:

Thank you for looking at the issue for me. Glad to know that it worked for you too and that it appears to be the resolution.

Kindest regards

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