Bamboo engrave for the first time. Why does it STINK?

[kittski]

The stray line is very likely either an open path/nodes or overlapping nodes. There’s been a lot of discussion about it and you can search for “line engraving” or “open nodes” and you should find several topics. Here’s a few to get you started…

Is my GF BROKEN? Unwanted LINES running across my engrave

I assure there are NO lines running across my text. Its just a simple font text from illustrator, and created outlines of the text to engrave. Nothing fancy. Added some star themed artwork, again nothing fancy. See photo 1. [issue] 1st attempt. Ran first print, and ruined a perfectly good PG material, these lines showed up for no reason, had to cancel print. (Photo 2) [44447741_312160232702165_3005814471055638528_n] 2nd Attempt, I find another PG board, and put the artwork at a diagonal …

Stray lines engraving

I can’t find (does not mean they aren’t there) any issues in my file. But the GF has engraved stray lines several places so far… effectively ruining several of the key chains I’m making. There are two files uploaded to the same session (Maybe that’s the issue?): Keychains3 and Keychains4 Pics of the stray engrave: [39932553_2093371784009090_816573828153999360_n] [39962581_1708577425931888_3872434245985107968_n] The two files: Keychains3.zip (1.4 MB) I’ve selected the area and can’t see a…

Random lines FIGURED OUT! (but not a fix)

I’ve had random lines appear in two engraves since last night. I’ve seen at least five other other people report the same issue today. I engraved an SVG once and got the random lines. I opened the filed, searched and fiddled with it looking for open paths (didn’t find any) and tried again. More random lines. The file did have the same repeated pattern that had been copied and pasted several times. I just spent a few hours pinpointing the problem and ran about 20 tests. When I would de…

Random Line Engraved

So, this isn’t the first time I’ve gotten a random line in my designs. Just not to happy to see it after waiting an hour for this thing to engrave. The file itself does not have a line. When this happened before, neither did those files. Anyone else run into this? [20181125_150259] ! Original File: [Christine%20Leacox%20TREE%20cutting%20board%20FINAL]

Random line while engraving

When numbers are stored using floating point adding an offset to translate a copy can cause a reduction in precision. The set of numbers floats can represent are not evenly spaced on the line of real numbers. The further away from the origin the wider they are spaced. So it is possible for an edge case to come and go when coordinates are translated. For example two points very close can merge to the same value when translated away from the origin. So a marginally open shape can close when tran…