Shapes made in illustrator show as one line, but cut twice

[eflyguy]

The paths define the inside and outside of your filled stroke. In Inkscape, you can put it in outline view, or just turn off the fill and set a stroke color.

This comes up all the time. Here’s one example:

Adobe Illustrator CC - Why is this cutting twice?

Perhaps someone here can tell me what I did wrong in Adobe Illustrator to cause the Glowforge to cut twice (first clockwise, then counter clockwise)? I know I could just erase the path and redraw it, but I’ve had this happen before during the most basic of things such as cutting an oval and I’d really like to know what I’m doing wrong here or what setting I messed up on. I’ve attached both the original .AI file as well as the .SVG I sent to the Glowforge. Thanks in advance. -Novak [baseball…