What order does it cut lines of the same color?

[jbmanning5]

What I do in Illustrator is go to the Stroke panel and there is an option to Add Arrowheads either at the beginning or the end of a path. When you add the arrowhead to either end, it’s very easy to see which direction the path goes.

Here’s a post that I made on it a while back:

Increasing Cutting Efficiency

If you’ve ever cut a large number of parallel lines, you might notice that the laser cuts, for example, left-to-right and when it ends, it travels across the bed to start the next line rather than just dropping down and running the next line right-to-left. The reason is that all vectors have a path direction (a beginning and an end). In this screenshot, I added arrowheads specified to the end of each path, which shows the direction. As you can see, all of the arrowheads are either on the right …