How to I copy a design so I can have many of the same image on a single piece of material?
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What file type is your design? Or what application was it done in? Do you have a design application that you use? It’ll be easier to give you some advice if I knew a little bit more about your design. Is line art, or more like a photograph. There are all kinds of ways to accomplish what you’d like to do. I work in illustrator, and I can create my artwork there. Once my artwork is the way I want it I can group it, and then I can copy and paste it next to the first one and I can keep doing that until I have however many I want on my page. Also, make sure that your page is the same size as the material you’re going to be putting on your laser bed. Once you’ve got it set up the way you want it, you can save it as an SVG file and import it into the Glowforge app so you can print it.
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It is a line outline that I want to cut out. Inside the line is an etched image. I just drew it with a pen on white paper and scanned it with the camera on the lid. I don’t have, or know how to use a design application. I do have the Glowforge Premium subscription.
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Then assuming you’ve separated the outline (Outline tool in the UI) so it can be set to cut, the copy/paste options I provided should suffice. The machine will typically engrave each copy individually. You can put the cut step after the engrave to ensure the parts don’t move while engraving.
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