How do I control the path of the cut?

[Coach1314 (John Nagle)]

How do I control the path of the cut? I would like to have it cut the whole piece before it starts its second pass, verses going over a line/arc “x” number of times.

[Dskall (D Kallenberger)]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[JimNM (James)]

Line .vs Fill and sublayers

[parsec (FerAS)]

Check this;

Lightburn Super Trick

Hello to all. Instead of making multi-pass cuts in intricate details where laser burns the same segment over and over again and that sometimes leads to material burn… You can automatically make 1 pass cut plus 1 pass cut plus 1 pass cut and so on to let material cool a bit. Using Lightburn sub-layers like in the enclosed example. It take a few seconds more but gives much better results. At the end of the job start the job again (3 times in this case) or use cut job with 9 cloned sub-layers, …