Improve efficiency of engrave paths, an idea

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I fooled with these concepts way back:

Super manual engraving

I wanted to see if it would be faster to make my own engraving paths. Basically I made a series of concentric or spiral shapes and scored them to see if it would work as an engrave. The end result is that it does work, with mixed results. All settings are 500/15 on Baltic Birch. This is not a great setting for anything, it was just reasonably fast and showed what I was looking for. First: This is a traditional engrave. Nice and crisp. no hot spots, but slow. Engrave time: 7:00 [image] N…

And like takitus said, the TSP is worth looking at:

Traveling salesman problem revisited

Wait, don’t close the door, I’m sure I could interest you in a set of *SLAM!* [IMG_2710] Apologies, but this post is going to be complex, text-heavy and kinda nerdy. You have been warned. So I finally got to the traveling salesman problem. This is a topic that has been covered a few times before, but I had some ideas about how to do it a little differently, and now with clean corners, it seemed like it was about time. The traveling salesman problem is a broad topic, if you have no idea wha…