Cut lines seem to vary in width

What do you think?

  • Is it the artwork?
  • The laser?
  • Or the material?

I think something with the material. It is the Eucalyptus White Hardboard from Home Depot.

I think maybe the coating is seperating from the material or maybe the material is lifting slightly as it is cut out and changes the focus. But I don’t think that is it, because I saw similar thing happen on a parallel line cut.

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Looks like double lines in your art work from here. Easy way to tell is watching it. If it double cuts anywhere it’s the art work.

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To me it looks like the machine is not controlling power or focus correctly, reminds me of an issue geek2nurse had with their machine.

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Here is an export of the file.

Nested Bowl

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I don’t see anything wrong with the file.

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I have been experiencing this too. I thought it was just a difference between my old machine and the new.

It has not affected what I am producing yet, but I did notice the differences from the start of a cut matching the end.

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polyline version from outside to inside

Nested Bowl_v1

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Yours looks perfect. What’s the difference? Is a polyline different from a vector line?

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your drawing are a lots of lines with attached with nodes… polyline is one line.
you can see the differents when you select it. i like poly lines better because its always finish a line first before it starts a new line

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So did you have the same issue with the original version?

I do not remember seeing these differences before.

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I may need to print both on the same material at the same time to rule out the file or material.

Even so, the path is still a single line. So glowforge might have an issue with how they are handling svgs.

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