Hi guys, any particular thing I should look out for when creating svg’s to keep the gcode creation time down? I’m processing what I think if a fairly simple design but the gcode is taking upwards of 45 minutes to finish. I’m running this with LW4 (latest) with smoothie, i7 processor, 8gb ram. Thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
Mutiple small paths does not help, that usualy happends when vectorizing an image.
Would you recommend combining the paths before export?
Yes, join them. It does not mean that the only reason but I have seen small and tiny paths making the difference when joined
Joining them didn’t seem to help but it’s just as easy to only add certain elements at a time and generate the gcode in sections. It really doesn’t take much longer to do it this way.
There something there , also helps if the laser thickness for raster is bigger if doing a large image
Doesn’t changing the laser thickness change the overall resolution?
Yes it will , just giving you some ideas of possible issues