Moving from Adobe Illustrator interface to LightBurn

Hi, I’m familiar with Epilog & Universal lasers that used Adobe Illustrator to interface with the lasers. A makerspace I joined uses LightBurn for it’s lasers & it’s been a difficult transition. I work a lot with engraving record covers (12 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches). Typically I have a small negative image (lets say it’s 3 x 3 inches) that I drop into Illustrator (the artboard is your canvas size) I cover the other areas to be engraved/filled/erased with solid black rectangles & then everything on the record cover is removed except for my negative image. Can someone please explain how I do this with LightBurn?

Forgive me if I am missing something but, why not continue with Illustrator and drop them into LightBurn? I do it all the time.

I’m still using AI but one issue I noticed immediately is that LightBurn does not recognize artboards–so when I import a file that worked previously in Illustrator it imports without a border. In AI I simply cover up the rest of the “canvas” with black squares (filling the record cover so only the negative cutout remains). In LightBurn this does not work–it imports & the squares overlap–they extend too far etc.

Gotcha Lol

This article from our documentation will likely be of use:

Thank you! That really helped dealing with all the overlap

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