Acrylic frosted and clear led edge lit

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

@Fuzzeh

I’m also at a loss as to how to essentially invert the text area/background so that the text is left clear and the background ends up frosted with the drag bit. I tried a couple of boolean operations , none of which gave me what I wanted.

This is a graphic design/illustration problem known as “figure-ground reversal” — usually offsetting to add a surround, drawing in a surround, or deleting surrounding geometry is necessary:

Figure-ground reversal and toolpath considerations

As requested on support… Given a traced image: [image] which has a pocket toolpath which previews as: [image] One can ungroup it: [image] [image] Select only the outer geometry: [image] and delete it (or move it to a different layer) to get a different appearance: [image] [image] [image] Ok Then associate the inner geometry with the toolpath: [image] [image] “Use current selection” Ok [image] Because the geometry has sharp corners, one can get more detail using an…

Figure ground reversal

This came in from support difficulty in getting a purchased image: [image] to cut as desired. We will review the specifics here.

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