New to Lightburn and struggling to figure out why LB is ignoring all white shapes in my illustrator file. I create maps and use the white as a background for text/symbols/title to differentiate them from the roads below when engraving. I need LB to see those white shapes and know to leave them black so the text is readable from the roads below.
Images below to hopefully illustrate the issue.
Any help would be appreciated.
Lightburn will cut the black lines and won’t paint over them with white paint.
This is a philosophical difference between machines that support graphic arts and machines that cut stuff. There are ways to approach this and LightBurn has a couple of different tools to handle the differences.
There’s actually an easy way to do this. Let me know what Layer your white shapes are on. If the white shapes are closed and all in the same layer, we can group them, apply the mask tool in LightBurn, and mask out the graphic of the street.
If the street map is vector-based, instead of being an Image then Cut-Shapes may be the tool of choice.
How did the word ‘Butter’ get on the lower drawing?
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