How to duplicate the same cut efficiently?

[colleen]

Hi,
I’m making magnets and can fit 20 on a single sheet. Each magnet includes, engrave, scores, and of course a cut. I don’t want it to engrave all 20 magnets before it does all 20 scores and then all 20 cuts. I’d rather it engrave one, then score, then cut so essentially do each magnet individually one by one. that way if there’s an error part way through then I can just stop it and lose maybe one magnet instead of all 20. I design in inkscape and know the if I want each one to do be brought in as its own thumbnail I have to have it a separate color. I also know Glowforge uses hexadecimal code to organize the order (but it seems to import fills as engraves automatically and plops them all on top). so I could create seperate colors for every step but it seems time consuming and the GF UI isn’t super friendly about moving all those thumbnails (with 20 copies, each with an engrave, score, and cut… that’s 60 thumbnails)

So my question is what is the most efficient way to do this or is there not an efficient way with the way GF is designed?

[wesleyjames]

Make one.
Import it.
Then copy and (right click for the command)paste as new step/operation whatever the option is called.

You can then arrange to taste or use the layout command to try and spread them out evenly.

You’ll still have the 60 thumbnails but they should now be grouped by magnet instead of by operation.

[colleen]

OH, “Paste as a new step”!!! I’ve just been doing ctrl-v, which then keeps all engraves/scores/cuts together!

Thank you! I do think it’s easier to format the 20 magnets in inkscape than in the glowforge UI but I think it is easier this way, you don’t have to resort all the thumbnails. So not a perfect solution, but good enough! thank you again!