As you can see in this screen shot, the selected item has a red outline and blue fill, but the colors in the status bar show no fill and black hairline. When I send this to my laser it sees the no fill and black hairline. Is this a setting I can change? I like to be able to lock an item so I don't accidentally edit it while I'm working on the rest of the document.
Not for the laser I'm using, as long as an object is visible and on the page, it gets sent to the laser, locked or not.
For what it's worth, when you refer to "sending to the laser", I have no idea exactly what you are doing in CorelDRAW (or in other software) to make that happen.
Even if it's on a locked layer?
When it comes to Printing and Exporting, I think it works like this:
Since I don't know exactly how "sending to the laser" is being performed here, I don't know if it follows the same rules as Printing and Exporting.