Amazing detail! Yep, the amount of design time I do vs actual laser time is way, way higher. It will get better as you get more experience in how the design program output translates to Glowforge results.
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Here is what looks to be the Epilog example calendar. You will have to convert from Illustrator to SVG: http://www.vector-eps.com/aztec-calendar-vector-eps/
Johnse is correct, strokes do nothing other than set the default operations order by color. Filling a vector causes it to be treated as an engrave. You can change what you want by clicking on the thumbnail then clicking on the down arrow.
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This is artwork from a friend of mine that unfortunately the internet has had its way with. I have a ton of his stuff, and it’s all amazing.
If you like it, check out his web store, he’s an incredibly talented artist:
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Turned out great! Especially for a 3rd print! 
(And I really like Nopal’s Star Wars perspective on the Aztec calendar…it’s different.)
thanks for sharing the origins of the star wars file. definitely a talented artist.
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It looks like the Aztec calendar has come up before: Dispatches from the front (Pre-Release Report) Aztec Edition
I tried it myself!
Two passes, map power engrave. Original file is a vector, but has superimposed white paths over black so unsuitable for direct use. Needs to be “flattened.” I started running combine paths over everything but gave up when it showed no intention of finishing, converted to bitmap instead.
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Chuckle! Couple of times, but it always looks good. Nice job! 
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exactly… amazing movie. I have one of those stickers on my laptop, its metallic. I love it
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Do you still have the SVG file? Not trying to sell or spread. I just really like how it turned out.
Ever come across one… i’m curious as well!
This is lovely. Did you buy the .svg file somewhere? I would love to make my own.
He really is. I’ve got his store saved for the next Star Wars gift giving occasion, which knowing my friends will be incredibly soon.
Bringing this back from the dead, I finally got around to making a few of these this morning and like the result. I did have an issue with the GUI not accepting embedded PNG’s or JPG’s to try to do a 3D engrave of this, so I settled on black and white. My 
died after these printed, but the plan was going to try and make a larger one.
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He sells giant ones in his shop. I have a large collection of his work. Here’s one. Glowforge for scale
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I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to make this for a friend who is an absolute Star Wars addict but I am having a really big issue with trying to get the darker areas filled in from the SVG file. I have it in Illustrator and I thought it would be as easy as selecting the outer circles and adding a black or white fill so that it would not be all outlines and have the dark areas filled in. When I do that, it fills in most areas, but there are still a TON of details missing and are hidden under other objects. It’s impossible to select them all because they are all on different sublayers. Does anyone have an easy solution for this or do I have to go shape by shape and bring objects forward/back and fill them in all individually?
I would be ever so thankful if someone can help me with my current swiss cheese knowledge of Illustrator and show me a simple way. If there is no simple way, then I just want to know before I go ahead and spend hours on this filling in the shapes I need to engrave!
I have attached a screenshot of the current status my file is in after changing the fills of the outer circles…
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I think when did this, I rasterized the image. If you want to keep it vector, then maybe the merge tool would work.
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Please remove this. This isnt your artwork to spread.
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