PassThrough

[Jules]

There is an alignment algorithm under development.

Until then, several of us have figured out how to get excellent results through manipulation in our design software. I’ll post the links below:

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 w…

Pro Only - Passthrough Alignment Jig Templates

Okay Bullet Points: (going to demo in Illustrator again, but it should work the same in any drawing program): Everything starts in the file…say I want to cut a 12 inch oval frame Draw a 12 inch high oval in Illustrator and use Offset Path to create a smaller center oval. Cut the ovals exactly in half, using the scissors tool on the side nodes. Make the top two halves one color, and the bottom two halves another color. [PT test c] Group the top two halves together, and the bottom…

And a bit more detail in this discussion:

How to correctly use the pass through slots

Okay @kyle.miller87, I put some screen shots together that might help. @caribis2 is right about the clipping path - you can delete that, it doesn’t translate into the Glowforge interface. In addition when I broke your file apart, you actually had two instances of the same paths in the file, one with fill color and no stroke, the other with stroke but no fill color. you don’t need both for cutting, all you need is the stroke with no fill colors, so you can delete one of them with the clippi…