How do you etch and cut in the same design

[Jules]

In Illustrator, you want to Embed the jpeg image with the logo. (Select it, then click on the Embed button in the top row.)

Then draw a rectangle around it. Give the rectangle a stroke color, but no fill. That will be your cut line.

When you save the file, click on Save As …and choose SVG. then in the popup box, use the settings shown below:

Glowforge Interface - Correctly Save a File as an SVG for the GFUI

For All Programs: If you want to engrave a bitmap (raster) style image and include it inside a vector SVG file, you need to Embed the image in the file if you want it to stay aligned inside the SVG file. Otherwise you will need to re-load the raster file and use the camera to align it visually. (That’s fine, but you will completely lose the benefit of more accurate alignment that you get from the design software.) There are instructions for how to Embed raster images for some of the main 2D…

Drag the file over to the interface and drop it on the catalog area and it should open. You’ll get a different operation for the engrave part and the cut part.