I’m guessing a bit here, but I think you’ve got two bitmaps in your inkscape file. If this is right, then in the glowforge UI, when you select the shape, you are probably only getting engrave options and cut and score are disabled. If so, then the steps you need to take are:
- Select the shape that is meant to be cut out
- Path/Trace Bitmap - since it is a solid color, I’d toggle live preview and play with the brightness cutoff setting until the preview looks good and then “OK” it.
- You now have a file with two shapes as bitmaps (pink and blue images above) and a path that is filled (and likely black by default).
If you load this into the GFUI you should find you have have three objects to play with. If I understand what you want to do, one of them will be an engrave, one will be ignored, and one will be your cut.
Also: if you haven’t already, looking through the matrix (Community Glowforge Tutorials: Table of Contents) is worthwhile - there is a lot of info in there that can help. The Inkscape specific stuff is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Wd6UZ8_WGDupc5WfMc_aiSxE-NoEuDfEByOFHLVxcc/edit#gid=0).
Hope this helps!
-Jeff