# Incredibly frustrated with Luban and SVG

**URL:** <https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/incredibly-frustrated-with-luban-and-svg/28055>\
**Category:** Snapmaker Luban\
**Created:** [November 27, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/incredibly-frustrated-with-luban-and-svg/28055 "2022-11-27T23:46:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Erin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@Erin1](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/Erin1)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/incredibly-frustrated-with-luban-and-svg/28055/1 "2022-11-27T23:46:58Z")

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I traced out a photo in inkscape and converted to vector. I then cropped the image in to a few separate elements for cutting on paper and saved each one. When I throw a single element in to Luban it imports fine and only shows the single element, but when I generate a toolpath and preview, all of the elements are included for some reason. Why does it do this? Every other piece of software just works and I feel like I have to fight Luban every step of the way.

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**Author:** ![snapUser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@snapUser](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/snapUser)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/incredibly-frustrated-with-luban-and-svg/28055/2 "2022-11-28T00:40:11Z")

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That’s not Luban issue, it’s your software. I use illustrator to creat and edit my SVGs and never had an issue with Luban. Clearly the other elements are still in the SVG.

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**Author:** ![Skreelink](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.snapmaker.com/skreelink/32/16398_2.png) [@Skreelink](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/Skreelink)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/incredibly-frustrated-with-luban-and-svg/28055/3 "2022-11-28T01:10:40Z")

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It’s well known that Luban doesn’t support all the assets of SVG. A lot of users complain about making an SVG and Luban manking it up. Sadly the main answer is to use external software… I bet Luban’s crap SVG support has sold many copies of Lightburn. The only other option would be to export as a high quality PNG and use the trace function in Luban.