Indent image for cutting

Hi,
I would need some help. I’m always struggling eith creating indent shapes for cutout patterns. Let’s say I would like a rose to be cut out instead of engraved. So I have to somehow slice this lines, but I’m sure there could be an easy way (read somewhere about offsetting in both directions should do the job, but don’t understand it). For what I mean I added a picture of such a flower. If I cut it like that it obviously falls out. Thank you for hints and help.

Here is a screen capture (WIN+Shift+S) of an earring that I make.

Blue line is cut
Black line is engrave
Red area is fill

Is that what you are trying to get done?

roses.lbrn2 (97.7 KB)

This is going to tricky because your rose project looks like its made multiple designs that are not connected together. Maybe someone else has a better idea but what you could do here is:

Select the whole design and then set your cut/layer speed and power for the appropriate setting to engrave the design. Then use offset shapes to outline the whole project and set your cut/layer speed and power to cut out the design as one piece. You cant cut out this design without having an outer line all the way around the project. The attached file will engrave the flower and then cut it out.

Rose.lbrn2 (167.1 KB)

No, I don’t think. I would like to trace some image (ie the flower) and then get it cut out, not engraved. If I just cut it out it’s clear that the shape falls out of the board. So I need to get all that shapes to be cut out without the outer line. If I only delete the outer line, then I loose my outline and all the inner shapes being cut out have no more sense. I’ll now make an example, cut all out, make pictures and come back again.

Now I did tweak all the lines and nodes manually (breaking the nodes and editing the lines) to get that result. It’s quite what I would like, have to tweak some more with the leaves, but in general that’s how it should look like.
So I got a vector picture, traced it in Lightburn and:

  1. The left one just cut
  2. The right one with edited nodes

I’m pretty sure one of the LB tools could make my job lot more easier then breaking all those nodes and editing all of them separately (took me almost an hour to get it done). I’m thinking of using the offset tool more times in different directions and different values and also then the boolean functions. But don’t know how to proceed.

Use the rubber band tool, set to another layer and adjust per rose shapes with nodes.

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Thank you, I’ll lookup some tutorials on how to use this tool. Hope it helps me further.

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