Complete all parts of an item before starting the next one

Hello, I searched around but can’t find a solution to this question. I’m burning multiple identical items, and I’d like to complete each individual item before moving on to the next one. Each item includes a fill, line and cut layer. currently it does all the fills, then goes back and does all the lines, and then all the cutting. I played around with the optimization settings but can’t get it to do what I want. If I make each item a group, the time greatly increases because it has to traverse back and force across the whole image to fill the letters in, instead of filling each word individually. Thanks for any advice/help!

Probably want one of these settings.

That’s just for the fill mode. That works if I’m just doing a single item, but not with burning multiple items one at a time.

Ok, group each one and try this.
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Here’s the problem with grouping each item as one. The traversing increases and the time doubles.


Here’s what it is without grouping the entire item:

Group each individual item you want engraved, and then group the whole thing. For Example, group the Navidad 2022 together and then the Msion Argentina Santa Fe together. Then the inner heart bit. Then group the whole thing.

You can see my recent post and with those settings, it does all of the engraving and cutting for one ornament and then goes to the next. I am having a bit of trouble with scoring instead of engraving, but this should help you.

If you set the optimization to ‘Order by Group’ as the first entry in the list, it should do what you want. Your screen shot snips off the version information in the title bar, which is useful to keep.

Or just select one of them and let it do the part complete, then select the next one.

This solution got me as close as I think I could get to what I wanted. I grouped each individual ornament as it’s own group, set optimizations to “Order by Group”, and set the fill layer to “Fill Shapes Individually”.

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