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I wish I could magically bestow that understanding on you but my way is so much different than that of many whom I respect that I suspect that my way may not be the most intuitive to most people! Try this link and then do a search on “pass-through”, then if you are on the cusp of getting it PM me and I’ll do my best to get you over the hump.

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…

Here is my contribution to helping make it semi-automatic:

Semi-automated file prep for pass-through

Okay, as everyone who has a Pro knows, as of this writing there is no pass-through software. There have been some good things written here about how to use it anyway but until now they all involved manually breaking up your work, something I am not a bit good at. I have developed/stumbled across a way to automate the dividing up of your drawing for better pass-through work. First thing! Make an artboard that is 20X12, this is critical and nothing else works without this. If you are using Ink…