UPDATE: SOLVED: No matching Snapmarks no matter what I try

Problems and Support
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UPDATE: SOLVED NOW! Thanks!
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I can not make snapmarks work. “No matching snapmarks” is returned no matter what I do. I’ve tried printing a template/ijg ruler alignment tool multiple times - on acrylic, on draftboard, and finally the last attemp was just printing it on the printer and putting it ontop of a piece of acrylic to just try and get it to align once - to see it work once and then work back from that to more challenging things. It was a no go for me. It would find the left snapmark, scoot over and dawdle around near the right one then quit and say “No Matching Snapmarks”.

I went and looked at the tutorial, I verified:

  1. 100% I have the rights size marks in illustrator and on the physical pieces I have.
  2. I am setting a height for the jig prior to pressing snapmark
  3. I read the entire tutorial and repeated it over and over with no success.
  4. I cleaned the lens of the camera on the head
  5. I cleaned the camera on the lid
  6. I tried 5-6 different pieces of art that I threw snapmarks on - no deal on all.

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FIle I’m using as just a test piece is attached.
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Attachment didn’t seem to work so adding dropbox link for one of the samples:

I spent the better part of 3 hours on this. I think I’m giving up on my own and will toss it out here. what are all the things I’m doing wrong?

Introducing Snapmark (September 2018)
#2

When this happens it’s almost always because your snapmarks are not the right size. Check out @jules posts on them - she’s done extensive research into the proper sizing of snapmarks.

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#3

Well that was explicitly the first thing I called out aws the exact thing I focused on as a result of reading the tutorial at Notes on Working with Snapmarks™ 🤔 - so given I made them exactly 0.332" x 0.405" ( 8.437 mm x 10.279 mm ) and measured them to the best of my ability in my print on paper and my jigs . that were etched and included a sample file that has them for verification, I’m gonna guess after 3 hours that might not be it. If it is I’ll be super sad because I don’t know what else I can do to try to . make them . that exact size any more than I have to date. And why does it find the first one on the left and fail on the second one on the right?

Anyway - I’m gonna put this one down to I’ve tried to the best of my ability to assure myself that this . explicitly is not the problem… but again - I’ve been wrong before so I won’t rule it out - but I don’t know of a way to do any better.

#4

I don’t have snapmarks yet (hint hint to glowforge team) but just looking at the files the size does look correct. The only difference I see, but not sure how this would matter, is your snapmark is a single path while the snapmark in the template file is a compound path of 3 pieces. Not sure if the UI sees these two differently.

#5

Oh that is interesting. When . I originally opened their template it failed due to open paths of some sort so I know when I combined them to one . path I was only thinking of it in the template burns and . never imagined that could be a difference. Hummmm… guess I’ll put that in the back of my head to try tomorrow (i.e. use theirs exactly - All I know is I couldn’t make it work before with what was on the site a month+ ago without modifying it to not break in Illustrator).

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The other thing you might look at is their alignment - the one on the right looks a little lower. Early Snapmark testing had some issues with misalignment or twisting of one of the marks. I thought much of that had been resolved (I lost my Snapmarks when I had to get my machine replaced so I haven’t paid as much attention lately).

#7

In InkScape outline mode your snapmarks looks like the one on the right, it should look like the one on the left…

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Introducing Snapmark (September 2018)
#8

will try that!

#9

Thanks - I wasn’t sure how accurate I as a human need to be . with it - this was a quick shot to jut get a screen grab - some of the other times I spent considerable time trying to make it “exact”

#10

I think YawString got it. The right would be a path that had a stroke that was converted using the “outline path” tool which is why I see it as a filled path rather than a stroke path. I think if you swap them you will be good to go.

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#11

Nailed . it! This was it. @yawsring for the win. Just FYI @bonny

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#12

Glad to hear that you’ve got things resolved. I’m going to close this topic. If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to open a new thread.

Please note: Snapmark is currently in Beta. If you have questions or problems with Snapmark, please post in the Snapmark thread here: Introducing Snapmark (September 2018) instead of in Problems and Support.

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