Glowforge 'cut' setting turning brush stroke into two linies

[thelittlestcherry]

Hi all - I’m having an issue when I go to cut on my glowforge, it turns my brush stroke into two lines. How can I avoid this? My process: draw on procreate, export png, upload to adobe illustrator, image trace (ignore background color), export as svg, import to glowforge. Design is on left.

[deirdrebeth]

Welcome to the forum! This is a common question

That’s because your brushstroke in Procreate has a thickness that a laser will read as two lines. If you wanted to engrave it, it would look exactly like your original design.

I don’t know Procreate, but either you need to make your brushstroke a single line rather than a thick line, or in Illustrator you need to break apart the two lines and delete the center ones so it just cuts out the outside ones. Keep in mind that if you cut that out things like the centers of your B will also fall out since nothing is holding it in.

[dklgood]

Procreate creates rasters which engrave. You need single vector paths to cut/score.