Overlayed white space

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@Munty_Scruntfundle

It exports ok as svg, dxf, pdf, etc, but when imported to Lightburn the graphic shows through the white space of the graphic. How do I get around this?

I’ve tried tracing the graphic and text in Lightburn but I get the same problem, the white space of the text is ‘see through’.

Please show an example of what you want and what you currently get.

@Munty_Scruntfundle

Ok, I worked this out, all in Lightburn. - Create the text and trace it.

Why are you tracing the text you generate in LightBurn? The text is already a vector shape, although still in a LightBurn Primitive form at that point (right-click to convert to paths). Tracing, to produce vectors would be redundant if I understand your workflow.

@Munty_Scruntfundle

but it seems Lightburn doesn’t deal with objects as solids, they’re all vectors

Correct. The default is wireframe as we suggest this for laser work to not cover things you might need to see. Have a look at this for more on the subject.

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We don’t recommend using filled rendering for editing because LightBurn doesn’t work like a traditional paint program - things “behind” a filled shape may still be sent to the laser, so Preview and working in ‘wireframe’ / outline mode is safer.