Not sure if this will help in your situation. I believe you can use colors in your SVG file to control the order and grouping of steps in Glowforge app.
For example if you make a number of different objects/path all the same shade of red, then the glowforge app will group them together in a step. Make other objects/path blue, they become a step, and so on.
I’m sure I’ve seen a number of post in the forums about this. Here is one I found: Custom Inkscape, Illustrator, CorelDraw and Affinity Designer Color Palettes for ordering operations in GFUI