Score thick lines

[steven.regehr]

I have a design that is all straight lines, the lines are thicker than the laser so when I engrave it using the glowforge, it rasters the design. I was wondering if there is a way for me to set it so that it can etch the design and make the lines on the etch thick by making multiple passes side by side while scoring (following the lines) instead of raster

[jbmanning5]

Theoretically you could (in Illustrator) draw your first and last line and then use the blend tool with the number of steps specified.

Or, you could rotate the design so that the raster goes the way you want. It’s all one in the same, no?

[evansd2]

You might find this useful, an experiment i did a while back along these lines.

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…

[cynd11]

Or you could try defocussing the laser. Just set the focus height for the line to be around .25” above the material thickness. At least on acrylic, for me it makes a significantly wider score line.