Hey there, I love my glowforge, works amazing. I do have an issue with it doing mutiple passes over some lines in my pdfs when cutting (causing slight scortching) and I have made absolutely sure there is only one layer of vector lines in my graphics software. I have tried exporting as PDF for print…

Not an easy thing to explain. What drawing program are you using? And are you using an auto-trace?

Hey there, I am using Affinity Designer. No autotrace. Simple line, vector art.

Ahhhh. How are you creating the cut lines? Are they created in AD with a simple single vector line with a stroke color but no fill? (I’ve never heard that converting to a PDF will expand appearance but I’m wondering if that isn’t what’s going on.) If you want to upload one of the problem designs…

Thank you, I am using a very thin stroke, single vector line. I checked them with .01 stroke and it was all good, no doubling zoomed very far in. Can the Glowforge cut with SVG? I might try that the next time I am at my workroom if it can cut with SVG files. Thank you for the help.

[image] kenhouse20: Can the Glowforge cut with SVG? I Yes, the majority of us use SVGs.

Thank you <3 I really appreciate your assistance. I am going to use SVG in a few days and see how it goes.

Multiple passes over some lines

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Jules February 4, 2019, 1:50am 7

Yeah, don’t know what’s going on with the PDFs…first time I’ve heard of it doing that. I’d definitely try the SVGs…we’ve got some instructions on setting them up correctly here: