Craft Room Sign

[cynd11]

I finally got a chance to spend a little time with my new Pro, and I wanted to test manual alignment on the passthrough slot. I didn’t really need a craft room sign but I did need a test project, so I came up with a goofy phrase and cut it out of cardboard. This was 1/8" corrugated cardboard. I cut it twice, glued the layers together, painted it, and dotted the “i” with a fake diamond gem. The whole thing is about 20" long.

Very pleased with the alignment. I used the method described [here]Tips for using the Pro Passthrough - #9 by johnse and here. I’d say that the offset where the two parts meet is less than 1 mm, which I think is a function of how careful you are with aligning the two score marks. Plus flatness and consistency of material.

[Jules]

Spectacular results!

[bkressley]

Lovely work, thanks!

[reliablepants]

How fun!

[lcronkite]

The first “Here” doesn’t work.

[cynd11]

Hmmmm, works for me. Here’s another link:

https://community.glowforge.com/t/designing-file-setup-for-passthrough/11251/12?u=cynd11&source_topic_id=18867

[lcronkite]

For some reason I’m getting “Sorry, you don’t have access to that topic”

[cynd11]

Oops, my mistake. Try this one:

Tips for using the Pro Passthrough

I don’t have mine yet, but I think this will work and not depend on camera [in]accuracy: Place a guide inside along one side of the bed inside. Hold it down with magnets. Assuming you have masking on the piece being cut, and also have a layer of masking on the guide. Your source image would be aligned on a 12x20 art board in the SVG file as a series of layers. Each layer would be aligned such that when the material is pushed through the right amount, the next layer is correctly positioned. N…

[johnse]

After I got my Glowforge I did a full tutorial on that method

Passthrough Alignment Tutorial with Manual Indexing

I wanted to test some theories about pass-through use and to create a tutorial about how we can work around the camera alignment inaccuracies in the current state of the Glowforge software. To spoil the ending, here’s the final product: [final] I’ll be using Adobe Illustrator CC 22.0.1 (current version) primarily because I have a subscription via work. However, I am a total newbie with AI, so please feel free to point out other/better ways to do things if I end up doing them the hard way. I w…

[cynd11]

That’s another good one!

[ptodd]

Great job! Lovely font!

[cynd11]

Thanks! It’s Limon Script Bold. I bought it from MyFonts.com the last time they had a sale. I’d been drooling over it for so long…

[ptodd]

Ohhhh! Thank you!