Engraving from an AI or Illustrator PDF File

[Jules]

A few things…there’s a list of suggested reading here:

Getting started

The Glowforge team recommends working through your first prints by following along with the examples shown here to learn where everything is: They have also recently added instructions with video on using the Manual settings here: Working with Manual Settings And there are methods for Enhancing your Photo Engraves and Cutting Out a Shape as well. (You can click on the topic headers in the left-hand column for even more information.) That particular page is also handy if you have any p…

BTW, wasn’t sure if you were going for that effect or not, but overlapping vector engraves tends to cancel each other out in the Glowforge interface, so that’s why the paw turned white where it contacted the ring. You would need to Merge (Union) the two together to keep that from cancelling out.