I just tried this on some baltic birch plywood and got similar results to yours.
Thanks for testing it! Mineās similar (might be a little deeper) but itās also a PRU so I canāt ever say for sure if itās the same for everyone else.
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I agree that the scoring is WAY too deep. Every test I have done so far has gone all the way through the material. Even drastically lowering the power it still goes right through the acrylic. Also when I manually set it to do 1 pass it still does 2 passes.
Really? I just did some tests to scored scored text to engraved text and it didnāt go through the acrylic on default settings
Yeah, Iāve only had the glowforge a few days, was making ornaments for my wifeās class today and tried to use a score instead of engrave since they were just paths so that it would go much faster. It went right through the proofgrade acrylic, I set it to manual and halved the power and it still did. Tried increasing speed as well. At about 400 speed and 4 power it still went through in the corners of shapes.
I made the glowforge ruler and it didnāt quite go through, but was like 99% through.
Youāll want to post pictures of the back of that ruler to āProblems and Supportā and describe what youāre seeing. At least one other 'forge that weāve seen on the forums needed to go back for overpowering through everything.
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Considering the default proofgrade settings for cutting PG acrylic is Full Power and 157 speed, you likely need to contact support directly.
Good idea, the glowforge is at my parentās house temporarily but Iāll get pictures on Tuesday.
Iāll do that. Engraving and cutting seems to work fine. Well actually only some engraving. If itās a path in Inkscape it engraves fine, if itās a larger shape it also engraves almost all the way through. Hmm and now that I think of it it did two passes to cut the acrylic when it was clearly through on the first pass.
One extremely specific reason for a deeper score: I am playing around with scoring vector illustrations and then painting, with the black score line standing in for a black ink line. In that case, a bit of additional depth to the cut both makes it easier to paint āinside the linesā and emphasizes that there is an actual change in the surface of the wood.
That said, my PG score settings are not nearly as deep as youāre describing and donāt seem to be destabilizing my pieces. I have only had my machine for about a week and havenāt gotten into customizing settings, but reading this thread makes me v curious about experimenting with score depth. I love the idea of the depth slider or mapping depth to shades of gray.
You should post in Problems & Support. Be sure to include the source file - the double cutting is almost certainly a problem with double lines in the source file.