Fill+Score Strategy

[simonplights (Simon Pettitt)]

Hi there,
I’m working on a project for my wife, who has some ply parts that she has engraving details on and a 2mm-wide border to be engraved as well. At the moment, I can produce the part with a result we like, but as these are something she’d like to make quite a lot of, I’m looking for a way to bring the job time down a bit.

We would like engraving to be fill+score. The main thing I’m trying to remove is the fact that outside of the border is being scored, which is redundant when the next operation will cut it out along practically the same path.

See this simple example (the real designs have more going on):

• Blue is my fill and score
• Red is the cut

If I were to move the border to another layer that were just engrave, the middle circle and outer border would be separate passes rather than engraved together, removing the time saving.

Would there be a way to prevent just the outer line of the border being scored please?

I tried offset fill but even at a very low power, it dug more of a trench than it browned the wood. The normal scanning fill looks better for the designs we have.

Creality Falcon2 22W

Thanks

[berainlb (PY)]

1. put circle and square onto layer A for engraving
2. create duplicate shapes of whatever you want to score and put those onto another layer B
3. have a separate layer C for cutting

[simonplights (Simon Pettitt)]

Thanks. Didn’t know if there would be a way to do it without duplicate geometry, but if that’s the way then great! Cheers

[berainlb (PY)]

Your very specific requirements call for some hackery, unfortunately.