So, this is my first engrave using the SVG export from Wacom Inkspace, and the Intuous Pro Paper. Super excited about being able to convert what I draw with an actual pen on paper to a vector to engrave. However, as you can see the SVG image in the GFUI has no extra horizontal lines across the middl…

Yes but you have to set it up scores manually for each design. On other machines you can specify a score in your design file.

And the Glowforge, you just make a circle with a fill? I guess I’m not seeing where the difficulty lays once you know a fill is defined as an engrave and a cut is a stroke. It would be nice to be able to set up certain operations as a score automatically which would minimize UI time. It is one step…

[image] jbmanning5: It could be - if it’s not the open path then it’s likely a self-intersecting path. Maybe this is the problem. Ran again just now and cancelled it. It has added even more lines that aren’t in the svg. [image]

I dont have the gf as of yet… worked on my friends gf but he isn’t to knowledgeable about laser cutting.

You know, if I wanted to use a sketch like that, I’d rasterize it. (Hand sketches are murderous from a vector standpoint. All the scribbles have to be interpreted into a lot of movement rules, and they’re not connected, so the math gets to be pretty extensive.) But in a raster treatment, the head …

[image] Jules: You know, if I wanted to use a sketch like that, I’d rasterize it Thanks. I just tried this with a png directly from the tablet, but the results are… well, really rastery. I haven’t found a way to up the dpi output from the tablet. Or, now that I type this out and think about t…

I would make it very large as a vector and then rasterize it so that you can increase the DPI and get it to the final size that you need.

I think that looks pretty great actually…very “hand-sketch”. You can increase the LPI in the Glowforge interface for small items. If that was the SD setting it’s probably set at 270 LPI…you could get a smoother/darker result at 340 LPI. (You don’t want to increase the LPI for anything that is lar…

[image] jbpa: make it very large as a vector and then rasterize it @jbpa you win two gold stars! :star2::star2: and a :+1: @Jules you get some :star2::star2: too. Rasterizing made complete sense, but the nodes in my brain weren’t thinking about vector from AI first and export as raster. Now…

GFUI Drawing lines that aren't in SVG

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