Preview not same as design 9.16

[himehran2000]

Hi,
My preview is not same as the the actual project layout screen, Is this mean my actual job also would be messed up. please see pix. Thanks!

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

It is all about the fill “boundaries”. When designing, you need to understand how LightBurn uses boundaries to define what get filled and what does not. The following is a great illustration. Have a review of that, and if you are willing, post the file so we can take a look.

How do I invert (negate) a vector engraving?

If you want to invert a vector engraving (Fill layer) you need to add an outline to it. Think about what happens when you scan a circle, compared to the letter ‘O’. The inner ring of the O toggles the fill. If you add another shape (like a square) outside it, it negates the whole thing: [image] And a slightly different example, this time done by changing the outer line around the design to a ‘Line’, instead of leaving it as part of the Fill layer: [image] In the case above, the design alr…

[LightBurn (Oz)]

You might also have set “fill shapes individually” instead of “fill all shapes at once” for that layer. If the system can’t easily tell which things are inside / outside other shapes, it might fill them one at a time, which would look different.