XY origin question

[johnse]

@markevans36301

Needs to be in significantly more than that as the true cutting area is in a bit from the edges.

In my experience, the upper left corner of the area displayed as cuttable in the GFUI is 0,0. This is decidedly not the corner of the bed!

See my write up here for discussion of coordinates:

The Great Dimensions Debate

I’ve seen a number of posts talking about 20x12 artboards vs. 5:3 artboard aspect ratios and how the GFUI deals with them. I’ve also seen discussions about differences in Inkscape DPI resolutions, and assumptions that GFUI defaults to 96 DPI. Yet I’d noticed during my experiments with Illustrator that using the Glowforge-endorsed “Save As…” methods, the SVG dimensions default to points (1/72nd inch). So I decided to experiment with different options and see how they are interpreted by the Glowf…

And this one talks a bit about finding where the printable edge was for creating the pass-through jig.

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…