Can't get file to print right

[dibartcj]

I am new to graphic design…

I am trying to print this…

This is the image in coreldraw…

There is no fill in the second area from the bottom…but when I load it into the GF app to print I get…

Any help would be great!!!

[kanati]

convert the non cut area to a bitmap. There’s an open path somewhere I’m guessing. But bitmaps don’t have to worry about that.

[dibartcj]

Thanks!! I converted it to a bit map and had CorelDRAW retrace it and now I don’t have the issue.

[tim1724]

I think you’re running into the long-standing Glowforge bug where it doesn’t correctly implement fill rules in SVG files. Saving as PDF rather than SVG usually solves the problem.

[chris1]

If you’re engraving, there’s no need to trace. (If you’re cutting or scoring, there is)

Drawing something, then making a bitmap, then tracing is kind of making a copy of a copy of a copy… each step loses something.