I am trying to make a triangle with an exclamation point in the center. I need the exclamation point to be unengraved and the outside of it inside the triangle to be engraved.
I am not sure how to do this.
I have attached a jpg for reference.
The secret is hidden in plain sight:
- Draw the triangle on a layer set to
Fill - Round the corners as needed
- Use the
Texttool to produce a suitable exclamation mark on the same layer - Drag the two into alignment
- Profit!
LightBurn keeps track of whether an object is filled based on the number of perimeter crossings it finds, so dragging one object inside another “un-fills” the inner object.
The Fill Mode doc explains all that:
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Something like this?
Create a triangle, use offset tool to create an offset the size you want the outer engraving. Text tool, Exclamation point and position in traingle. Set all items to same layer, set to fill.
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Thank you. It worked perfectly. I couldn’t get it to do that before. It just filled in the entire triangle. When I tried it again after your posting…it worked!
One truly hidden secret: any shape you want filled must be closed, which is how LightBurn figures out where the interior must be. Depending on the font and some imponderable factors, some letters / glyphs won’t be closed, so they won’t fill.
If you draw all the pieces separately on a Fill layer and they’re filled as you expect, then they’ll work when combined.
Bonus: if you drag a third closed shape inside the letter, it’ll be filled just like the triangle, because there’s an odd number of perimeters between it and the outside world.
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