Engraving is time consuming as it scans back and forth

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Not had time to experiment

I played with this a bit and have some results you can examine.
If you will be doing this a lot it would be worth it to experiment with the de-focus until the results you want are accomplished.
Remember that you can do any project in sections by ignoring some parts and letting them have different focus ranges.
So after a fast defocus ‘engrave’, you can ignore that part and enable the rest of the design for normal interactions (provided nothing has been moved inside the machine it will all go where it is suppose to).

Fun With De-Focused Score - time saver experiment

I decided to take some time and experiment with the de-focus score (thickness adjustment) concept. I chose this butterfly design specifically because it took a lot of fiddling to get it to work in a 3 step process. Engrave body, engrave wing, cut design. I was working with it as nodes primarily. Maybe a better way to do it, but it was what I used to finally get it to laser in 3 steps the way I wanted it to. First part of the experiment worked well, in that it took me just a few minutes to mak…