Thought it was going to be a success

[Jules]

Aren’t those passthrough cover screws? If that’s a Pro model you can run it through the passthrough slot without having to flip it, and you can get really exceptional accuracy.

There’s an excellent tutorial here that describes how to do it:

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…