Offset fill leaves a visible seam

Hello everyone,

I have an Atomstack A5 Pro and today I am doing my very first offset fill.

I notice that there is a visible seam on the ring that I am burning where the laser starts the next revolution. It appears to overlap before going to the next line.

Any thoughts on how to rectify this?

There’s not much you can do about it unfortunately. If you’re using ‘Constant Power’ mode, that would be a contributor to that dark spot. Offset Fill is a tool that works for certain things, but it comes with caveats. Using a normal fill is always going to produce the cleanest looking output.

Thanks for the reply. I will check out the constant power mode setting and see if that helps, thanks!

I know it doesn’t look as good, but for this particular application it works just fine and is 5 hours faster.

Any possibility of making it do a hop before starting the next ring? This way, even if it overlaps the overlaps will be spaced apart and much less noticeable.

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I have requested this several months ago.

I’ve added this for the next release. It will only work if the transition happens during a curved area - anything with corners is going to make the laser slow for the corner no matter what, but curves should benefit from it.

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