Vector Image not complete filling

bauerbyter · September 28, 2020, 9:24am

Hey, I am working a while with LightBurn in our local Hackerspace and I am extremely Happy with it. Thanks for the great effort!

But I have a small problem: Normaly I import a vector-file and if I want to invert it, I just hit outline and everything works fine (or put a circle around). But not here, can someone explain me why this is? How I can fix it or maybe if its just okay to use a good png with black and white. Thanks in Advance:

Original:

With Outline and circle around it ( the orange color is just in the background, so please ignore it)

As you see the Tail and the Body should also be “not engraved” (orange)

fred_dot_u · September 28, 2020, 9:40am

It appears that you’re getting an outline on the inside.

bauerbyter · September 28, 2020, 9:43am

Yes thats true, but why? Its set on Outside

fred_dot_u · September 28, 2020, 10:24am

If you can post the lightburn file, it would be helpful for troubleshooting

bauerbyter · September 28, 2020, 10:27am

forum_example.lbrn (3.3 MB)
Done Thanks for helping !

Mrrick386 · September 28, 2020, 11:39am

So, are you wanting it to look like the first pic when it engraves?

forum_example 1.lbrn (509.4 KB)

bauerbyter · September 28, 2020, 11:44am

No, It should be inverted. More like this

Orange is not lasered, Black is lasered.

Mrrick386 · September 28, 2020, 11:46am

ok. try this. if that’s right i can tell you what i did.

forum_example 2.lbrn (544.5 KB)

Mrrick386 · September 28, 2020, 11:47am

oh, i see the orange is not lasered, but the black is. hmm.

Mrrick386 · September 28, 2020, 11:48am

try this one?

forum_example 3.lbrn (578.1 KB)

bauerbyter · September 28, 2020, 11:49am

The second one was perfect “Forum_example 2”, just needed to put a circle around it. How did you do that?

Mrrick386 · September 28, 2020, 11:53am

So all i did was grab just the very outside line vector of that graphic by itself and then just did a small offset to the inside. i think it was .003" then just turned the fill layer back on and that’s it. Does that make sense? i can try and post some screenshots if necessary

bauerbyter · September 28, 2020, 11:58am

Ah thats cool! Got it. I grabbed the outside of the vector and made it like I needed it (put it on onside works also!) Thank you very much! Helped a lot!

Mrrick386 · September 28, 2020, 12:00pm

Awesome. Glad i was able to help out

LightBurn · September 29, 2020, 12:12am

This explains it with a bit more depth: How do I invert (negate) a vector engraving?

bauerbyter · September 29, 2020, 5:16am

Thanks, but this I use often. The problem was, I thought outline is making the outline of a group not of every single element.

system · October 29, 2020, 5:16am

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