I used one of the glowforge proofgrade materials - Maple Medium Hardwood. ~1/8" thick
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Itās weird they donāt give you the correct option. If you have hacker experience: right click on the image, select āInspect Elementā, copy the highlighted text, copy to address bar, massage to just the *.svg, etc.
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Weird - anyone else seeing the SVG cutoff? Iāve tried right clicking and saving on both Chrome and Edge and the image is cutoff. Hereās what I see in the post and what comes down to the computer:
You can see the image cutoff. Anyone see the same? Really want to make this!
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The objects are all there itās just that parts of the objects fall off the defined page size. Here is the file opened in Inkscapeā¦
You will need to update the page size. I just import this file into one with the 20x12 page size I use for the Glowforge.
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So interestingly enough, your picture shows everything and is clickable where the others are not. And itās probably me - Iām just having a bad tech day. I can grab yours and remove the black sheet lines in Illustrator / AutoCAD.
Thanks!
Mine is a screenshot of Inkscape (a PNG raster file) not an SVG (vector file) like the others. Using Chrome when you right click on the āotherā file and āSave image asā you should see an SVG file like soā¦
You can then load that file in Illustrator / Inkscape and itāll already be in the vector format needed.
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Yup yup. Just opened the SVG file in Illustrator and weāre jiggy. The top link for some reason didnāt work but the updated one in the authors second post does.
Iām just having one of those tech days. Now I have to get my PowerBI stuff working (for work - no way am I doing analytics on my hobby!) ā¦
Thanks!
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Hey Nick (@salocinah);
If you have a chance, can I get help? I printed out the design in cardboard to make sure I knew how to put it togetherā¦and I clearly donāt!
Iām pretty sure
6 is the base
7 the gears (brilliant, I know)
3 is the wood frame above the gears
8 is the acrylic windows
5 is the turning handle
1 and 2 are piles of 3 each thin and very thin cutsā¦are those supposed to be scores instead of cuts? Risers between the layers?
and I think 4 and art-deco 9 are trash AFAIK
and based on this it goes together like this:
Am I missing anything? It sorta looks like your handle is higher, but that could be on optical illusion!
Thank you!!
Now that Yule has passed I can post the final
She adores it!
I ended up glueing with super glue cuz nothing else could handle the turning pressure
The windows are press-fit, but while the center worked perfectly at 100.06% the others wereā¦more difficult. I increased size between 5 and 8 times depending on the window! Weird, but so worth it
Thank you again for the pattern @salocinah!
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This is BEAUTIFUL!!! Makes me so happy as this is my first piece that someone else printed and took a picture of!! THANKS FOR ENJOYING IT!!
All of your procedures are correct, and your assembly looks great. And yup, 1 and 2 are supposed to be scores so that the glue would stay on better. My designās intention was to have one of the small circles (the one you crossed out) to be between 7 and 5, which gives some height to the 5. But I think your version without the extra height / middle plexi glass looks beautiful too!
Thanks again! You have no idea how much this inspired me to continue sharing my work! 
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Woot! Iāll do it up in wood and acrylic and post that picture here too. Thank you for making such a cool design
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Yay!!
By the way, the original SVG had the acrylic holes as the same size as the acrylic pieces, which is incorrect. Depending on the kerf (mine is 0.1mm), the sizes would need to be adjusted so that it would be a nice press fit. You may have to print a few acrylic pieces and play around with the sizesā¦ >.<
Yupper. Iāve got your note about 100.6%. Iāll be sure to cut 1 and double check first!
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Awesome designā¦so I was trying to make this for an astrologist friend but keep on running into a weird error. Brought it into inksacoe then illustrator and couldnt understand how I was messing it up. The. after many attempts saw that the outter gear ring was broken up into segments. And would enlarge and get skewed when bringing them into the glowforge app, am I doing something wrongā¦thanks.
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Can you be more specific on āweird errorā
I opened the file in Inkscape and saved as .svg (after editing all engraves) and had no issue with it importing to the 
. Iām guessing thereās something with the move between Inkscape and Illustrator, but am not sure exactly what error you were getting.
Based on āenlarge and get skewedā - when you first open it in Inkscape you can select it and group so theyāre all connected. I know thereās a lpi difference folks have mentioned (one defaults to 72, and the other 96, but that wouldnāt introduce a skew soā¦)
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Heres what I get when I opened it inkscape. Thanks I hate to be a pain just haven played around with gears, usually I can figure it out but this one has me stumped.
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Just re saved your file ā¦then when ope ing it in inkscape the outter gear is broken up while other inner one isntā¦really appreciate the help
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Woah! Youāre not kidding about weird! It looks like it was made from an actual spring and got loose!
I donāt have Inkscape at work, so I canāt test - but out of curiosity did you download the first file or the updated one? If itās the updated one, try downloading the first one (the acrylic cut is too small but the gears should be fine). Thatās the one I had no issues opening in Inkscape.
If it was the original, try opening this (itās the one I worked on to remove the engravings - keep in mind the acrylic cuts are still the wrong size here)
gears blank.svg.zip (62.0 KB)
If that one has the same issue itās gotta be something in your settings (though whether in Inkscape or Illustrator I havenāt the foggiest)!
Fingers crossed
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I dont use inkscape alot anymore so guess Iām at a lossā¦heres what happened when I brought it over to illustrator to add some engravesā¦so strange. Gonna keep working at it. Thanks and thanks
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So heres what i was doing. Was opening it in inkscape, then saving it as a svg not an inkscape svg. Then opened that svg in Illustrator. So in the end somewhere in that process of change the file it blew out the gear teeth as you can see in the glowforge gui. So just opened the original file and it worked. uggh thanks for helping. Inkscape is really foreign to me now that i mainly just use illustrator for all my graphical needs. Ill post a shot when I get it all together. Hopefully at some point i can get it to work in illustrator to add my little flair.
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You could create your flair in Illustrator and then import it as a 2nd image. Using the to match up the layersā¦
Avoid the issue entirely!
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