Switching what gets burned out or rastered

[Dave (Dave Boelens)]

I’m attempting to inlay veneer on a lid of a box and have a simple lightburn question. To inlay I have to raster out the image to be inlayed, but with the simple fill setting it rasters out the opposite if what I want, if that makes sense. Is there a simple way to switch the part in lightburn that gets burned out or rastered?

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Two ways to “invert” the resulting cuts in LightBurn.

Raster Engraving:

Vector Engraving:

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…

[Dave (Dave Boelens)]

Interesting my cut pain looks like this…no negative image option

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[Dave (Dave Boelens)]

your working with an image I see

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

This is due to the layer you are showing is not an “image” and the layer is set to ‘Fill’ indicating this is vector artwork. Have a look at the second post link I provided. That post describes how to invert or negate the art to fill.

If you show what you are wanting to accomplish I might be able to refine my answer a bit to help.

[Dave (Dave Boelens)]

Rick
thanks for the help