Looking to cut a shadowbox from cardstock. When I uploaded svg I don’t see all the layers. I know its 18 layers only 11-12 are showing on side bar. Why? Also what settings should I be using. Newbie here. Thanks
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SVG layers are ignored by the Glowforge UI, it groups steps by color. So if some design elements are the same color but on different layers in your design app., they will be one step in the UI.
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Makes sense. What settings should I be using on 80lb cardstock please?
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Welcome to the community!
If there isn’t a PG setting for cardstock (I believe there is) you’ll need to test.
Check out #6 on this thread for testing advice:
There’s an Aura spreadsheet that might help too:
There is so much information in these pages, and the search function works surprisingly well. Have fun!
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One thing you want to do when you’re grouping by color. is be sure to get the color palette for your program if available. there is one for Inkscape and adobe illustrator I think it is.
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Those palettes were an interesting experiment but certainly not necessary. I tried them once, never bothered to replace after the next update removed it.
I just use black, red, blue, green, and if necessary, slip in magenta between blue and red, cyan between blue and green. And that’s only if I could be bothered, which I usually couldn’t be, as it takes a second to re-arrange steps in the GF UI.
If you want to replicate the colors used by GF when you export a design (which is completely pointless, but…) then for 8 steps, you get:
#000000
#00C800
#181493
#297200
#548AB2
#6E001F
#9E5000
#E53595
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The templates are a great tool if you care about order of steps. It takes seconds to install and simplifies the inkscape ui, standardizes your design, and preconfigures the step order in the Glowforge UI.
It is literally the first thing I fix when changing versions of Inkscape, followed by a default full bed blank template.
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Ditto. I adore using it because I care quite a bit about order of operations.
That being said, engraves will always be before cuts/scores no matter what colour they are.
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And then the fill color determines the order of the engrave steps.
You can’t eyeball hex codes to determine order. Take a look at this, a diagram of some colors in order:
You’d think that blues come before greens but that’s not always the case:
#a0e000 is a green and it comes before #a0e0ff, which is a nice blue. Templates take the guesswork out of it.
More discussion here:
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