Maybe I missed something about camera and cut bed veiw

[johnse]

For working with the fabric you might want to look at some form of sticky mat–either a Seklema mat or something like this

DIY sticky mat for paper, fabric, and leather(?)

Based on advice from @jules and others, I finally got around to making a sticky mat for cutting fabric and paper. This is just a 12x12 inch piece of very flat 3/8" ply onto which I sprayed two coats of 505 adhesive… Believe it or not, this piece was cut from a scrap of “grunge” cotton fabric. Weeding took far longer than the actual cut, and is one case where gorilla tape is contraindicated. [IMG_2410] Guess I don’t need to ask santa for that Seklema mat after all…

That will allow you to position your fabric nice and flat and keep it from moving around with out having to worry about whether magnets might interfere with the head motion or laser.

Also, if you’re going to do longer pieces, you may want to look at manual indexing rather than visual alignment. Something like I wrote up here:

Passthrough Alignment Tutorial with Manual Indexing

I wanted to test some theories about pass-through use and to create a tutorial about how we can work around the camera alignment inaccuracies in the current state of the Glowforge software. To spoil the ending, here’s the final product: [final] I’ll be using Adobe Illustrator CC 22.0.1 (current version) primarily because I have a subscription via work. However, I am a total newbie with AI, so please feel free to point out other/better ways to do things if I end up doing them the hard way. I …