jgodfrey Posted January 24 Posted January 24 I routinely use Designer's ability to clip one object to the boundary of another by dragging one layer inside the other. This produces exactly the visual effect I want. When these clipped objects are exported (to SVG in my case), Designer appears to properly generate "clipPath" objects that, when interpreted properly by consuming software, result in the original clipped boundaries. In my case, the SVG is used to drive a laser cutter (using LightBurn), which seems to ignore the SVG clipPath definitions. The result is that I get the original, unclipped boundaries. While I realize this is more a deficiency with Lightburn than Designer, I wonder if it's possible for Designer to optionally, physically clip the boundaries on export? Obviously, I can make a copy of my finished design and destructively clip the boundaries myself, but it's extra work that I'd like to avoid if possible. Any thoughts or general guidance appreciated. Quote
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jgodfrey Posted January 25 Author Posted January 25 Thanks. Sure - there's any number of ways I can destructively get the results I require (most involve the boolean operators). But. It'd be great if I could simply "export" a design containing clipped paths and have them be (optionally) physically clipped in the output. I was hoping this might already be possible via some feature I haven't yet discovered, but maybe that's not the case... Quote
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