Projects and imported artwork

Lesson guide

1. Use Open for project-start.lzrproj. It restores the tag as a Beam Bench project.
2. Use Import for star.svg. It adds the artwork to the drawing; it does not replace the project.
3. Use Save As for your native tag-master copy. Keep Beam Bench's .lzrproj extension.
4. Clear the selection. Choose File > Export, select SVG Files (*.svg), and save tag-artwork.svg.

You can view the supplied project note through File > Project Notes.... The native project preserves notes and layer operations; the SVG is artwork.

Independent practice

Extract the practice pack to a folder you can find again. Keep the supplied answers for comparison.

1. Open project-start.lzrproj. Import practice-arrow.svg into the current drawing.
2. Save As your own native project, such as my-project.lzrproj. Save it in your working folder.
3. Clear the selection, then use File > Export with SVG Files to save my-artwork.svg.
4. Compare the project with practice-project-check.lzrproj and the SVG with practice-artwork-check.svg.

• The tag and hole stay unchanged, with one arrow beside them. No move or resize is required.
• Keep the native master as well as the SVG.
• Do not resize the artwork to match the exported document page.

• Which file should you open to recover project notes and layer operations?
• Which command adds artwork to the drawing you already have?

Explained answer

Open a project; Import artwork

Open returns to the saved Beam Bench project. Import adds SVG geometry to the current drawing.

Native master keeps more information

It preserves objects, layer operations, setup, notes and native shape controls. The SVG keeps vector paths and relative geometry, with no project notes or laser settings.

Editable vectors are not the original objects

In the demonstrated release, importing the complete exported SVG makes one combined vector-path object. It does not restore the original three separate objects.

File roles: project-start.lzrproj is the native starter; star.svg is the demonstration import; tag-master.lzrproj and tag-artwork.svg are the recorded project/export answers. practice-arrow.svg is your import; practice-project-check.lzrproj and practice-artwork-check.svg are your two answers.

The complete SVG uses a 400 × 400 mm document. That is page size, not artwork size. The standalone star has a 20 × 20 mm page with a 17.12 mm × 16.27 mm path; the arrow has a 24 × 16 mm page with a 22 × 14 mm path. The margins are intentional.

Matches the demonstrated Beam Bench 0.2.37 interface. Panel layout may differ in later versions.