Glowforge Pro is adding fills to text and shapes

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Glowforge seems to be adding fills to everythimg on new projects and previous projects (that used to print OK).
When I upload a project it looks fine until I change the default “Cut” to Engrave, and then all the text and all the shapes get filled.
And when I go to print, the estimated time is like 57 minutes - should be 4 minutes.

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Change that cut to score. Engrave is a fill. Score will do the outline.

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Alternatively, if you are planning to engrave something, you can convert it to a bitmap/raster image and what you see is what you will get.

You didn’t mention what software you’re using, but if it’s Adobe Illustrator, I have a video on this topic:

I need to make a more generic one that’s just an recruiting pitch for the Church of Always Rasterizing Engraves. In any case, the same technique is applicable anywhere.

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I’m new to this and that was the answer Thank You so much

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Thank you - I’m New to this and I have been using inkscape but it’s been crashing a lot so I’m thinking about using Illustrator,
I’ve Looked at Illustrator a few times and it is daunting, do you know any good tutorials for using Illustrator for Laser Printing?

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