Usually, deleting the stray nodes at the bottom (in this case) and re-exporting it fixes the file. I can say with certainty that this occurs when exporting “the file” (with nothing selected). I will start exporting “selected” and see if it happens. I usually “select all” before exporting to ensure no stray pieces sneak in.
This is the file with the image as originally exported as well as the re-imported version. owl-1.lbrn2 (73.8 KB)
If I “shatter and re-assemble” your owl file, using Alt-B (break apart) then Alt-J (auto-join), it exports and imports correctly.
I haven’t gone through the file content in enough detail to understand what’s busted yet, but I’m guessing you edited this a lot in node editing, and something went sideways in the process. Was this completely done with the 1.3.00 update, or created with a prior version?
Alright, I think I know what’s happening, and it’s a genuine bug - haven’t seen this before, but some of the shapes in your file have only a single point in them, like this one:
The two control handles for that point make the line go in different directions, and loop back to the start. I think this is confusing the heck out of my export code, and possibly the code that sorts shapes into inside / outside shapes to decide what goes where.
This one is borked because you exported it set to Fill, but almost all of this is single stroke lines that won’t fill. Change the appropriate shapes to a Line layer and re-export, and it works as expected.
Some time ago I had a different issue which might be considered somewhat related:
I had an issue with single point curves where the enclosed area wasn’t being filled. The vectors had been imported from CorelDraw clipart. I fixed it by adding an extra node and LB then recognised it as an enclosed area and filled it accordingly.
Yeah it doesn’t look like they automatically join either - the auto-join code likely ignores anything with only one node, so I might need to handle this case specially.
The “Fill” code now allows for shapes that are “sealed” but not closed - IE, if the starting point and ending point have the same numeric coordinates, but are stored as different nodes, it still fills the shape, so those old files likely work now.
This started as an SVG file found on the interwebz. I’m trying to build a library of “LightBurn certified” vector graphics. I did no editing to this particular file. Import into LB, if it looks right export to library. Something happened in the export…
I’ve written millions of lines of code. Mostly process control stuff for running custom machinery and refrigeration systems. Lots of it was assembly language, lots of it was C. I’ve done a huge amount of programming in LabVIEW also. It’s been a few years now since I left your world.
