u/longestboie

Hey everyone, quick disclaimer right away: I am deeply aware, that the problem is sitting in front of the computer, just to get that out of the way first.

I am working on a file I want to use to engrave a guitar body using a laser. I have traced an image of the body using the bezier tool (including the cutaways for pickups, bridge, electronics) and created a bitmap of a sample Image I found posted by someone with a similar project. Now, here comes the dumb part; I made a test project months ago and I cannot for the life of me reconstruct what I did in order to achieve a union between my test-body-lines and the bitmap file. What I do recall is having to transform the files somewhat and then maybe use a boolean operation. I am just very stuck and would like to ask for help.
This is what I am attempting:

https://forum.lightburnsoftware.com/t/engraving-oddly-shaped-items-like-guitar-bodies/18956/13

I have attached some images in the hope that I can somewhat convey what I am attempting; effectively, I just want to move the flower-pattern across my body-template and cut away the excess with a boolean, but I seem to be missing some transformation of both objects. Assume that I am stupid enough to miss obvious things or not see the low hanging fruit in front of me. Thanks a lot if you took the time to read this!