How to convert
- Open the file with the button above, or drop it on the page.
- Switch off any layers you don't want, using the coloured chips under the design. The SVG holds only the layers that are on.
- Press Download SVG. Under Export further down, you can choose how Fill layers come out and whether to include tool layers.
What the SVG keeps
- Layers as groups. Each LightBurn layer becomes its own group, named like
C02 Cut (Line). Inkscape shows them as layers. - LightBurn's colours. Each group uses its layer's exact palette colour. When you import the SVG back into LightBurn, it matches colours to its palette, so the shapes land on the same layers.
- Real size. The SVG's width and height are in millimetres, and every coordinate is a millimetre, so it imports at the right size.
- Curves as curves. Béziers, circles and rounded corners stay as smooth curves, not short straight lines.
- Embedded pictures, at their placed size and angle.
- Layer settings as plain data on each group (for example
data-speed-mm-per-s), so they travel with the file even though other programs ignore them.
What changes on the way
Fill layers. By default, shapes on a Fill layer come out as filled shapes, combined so that overlaps cancel out the way they do on the laser. Many programs treat a filled shape as an engraving and a thin outline as a cut, so this keeps your intent. If you'd rather edit outlines, choose "outlines" under Export.
Cut settings. Speed, power and passes don't become settings in another program. Every laser program has its own, and the right values depend on the machine. Use the table on this page as your reference when you set them up.
Text. When LightBurn saved an outline of the text, which it normally does, the SVG uses that outline, so it looks exactly like the original. Text without a saved outline is written as SVG text in the named font. If you don't have that font, it will look different.
Tool layers (T1 and T2) hold guides and material outlines that never burn, so they are left out unless you ask for them.
Line width
Outlines are 0.1 mm wide, a hairline that cutting software reads as a path rather than a thick stroke. Thick or styled strokes can confuse laser software, so the SVG avoids them.