I am trying to engrave an SVG image onto the corner of a board but the image itself exceeds the bounds. I tried using “cut selected graphics” but the problem is the graphic is selected as a whole image, rather than stopping at the boundaries.
The ideal solution would be to allow me to insert the graphic but ONLY print whatever is in the border and automatically ignore everything else
In the image, I only want to print the lines within the border. You can see the star is inside and outside the boundary so even when I select that one star, lightburn interprets it as a single shape and ignores it.
Create a rectangle or square the size of the pattern you want and place it on the svg where you want it. Select the rectangle, then shift select the svg, then click the boolean subtract.
I don’t have a “boolean subtract” in my version of lightburn (v1.4.04) but I do have a “boolean difference”.
I did try that but it removes the entire SVG. I tried the other boolean modes but none of them isolate the SVG constrained to the rectangle.
I’m selecting the rectangle, holding down the shift and then selecting the SVG and then trying the boolean operations. Do I have to do something different in my version of Lightburn?
Fixed: I used the “cut shapes” option instead and that allowed me to isolate the SVG portion that was constrained within the rectangle. I’m all good now, thank you both for your suggestions, I really appreciate it!
