Colors of layers

[jennyemme]

Hi! I hope this isn’t too ridiculous of a question but how are you guys getting different colors for each layer before a print? Mine only shows up purple & turns to blue if I scroll over the object? I’m sure it’s something super easy I’m over looking? Thank you so much for any direction one color organizing my layers when cutting various depths

[eflyguy]

The GF workspace will only ever show the same color.

The colors in your design app only serve to order the print steps. Lowest values (hex RGB value) towards the top.

[dklgood]

The Glowforge doesn’t recognize layers, it recognizes colors.

[evansd2]

@eflyguy

The colors in your design app only serve to order the print steps.

This can be made much simpler with a custom palette.

Inkscape custom palette generator

So the key to a good GF palette is that your colors must be pretty different from each other, and in ascending hex code order. The colors being different from each other helps you differentiate between them at a glance, the hex codes in ascending order is for the GFUI, it sorts colors from low hex value to high. I built a page that generates a ton of colors and presents them in order, allowing you to click and select colors and fine tune your options to ensure good contrast. To use it, downlo…

[jennyemme]

Thank you! I think I misread or mis understood what others were saying about layers or colors? but I get it

[jennyemme]

Thank you! I think I misunderstood & thought it was more similar to adobe?

[jennyemme]

THANK YOU!!! going to try right now!