I always seem to have problems in the upper left area cutting through. I have gone through leveling the glowforge and this was cut right after I cleaned it. I know to check before I remove the pieces, but I thought it was just masking that was holding these pieces in. The other 4 pieces came out.
In the past I have used a palm sander to sand down to the cut, but this is proofgrade plywood and I will get down to the “other” grain. I won’t be painting this.
I have a few of these around the house, bought a couple of three-packs years ago. Less cumbersome than a “regular” utility knife, but more pressure than you can apply with an exacto.
I thought the rounded hole would be the toughest. But it was the finger holes. The pieces that did come out seperated. Weird how some cut and other didn’t.
Won’t help you tonight but every time I have had this happen it traced back to either the wood being warped or something on the tray messing with the focus across the distance.
For the future, I have successfully re-aligned things to run a cut again. I put paper down on the tray - cut the outline with like 2 power, then re-mask my item and put it on the paper on the tray, then cut the holes on like 2 power - if the cuts in the masking match up to the cuts cuts beneath I then run it full power.
*edited, cuz I said cardboard when I meant paper - cardboard would be too thick.