Passes in optimization settings

Hi, I am surprised to see that passes are not taken in account in optimization settings.
If, say, I have 5 shapes and need 3 passes to cut, it always burns shape by shape, doing all 3 passes for each shape. There is no way to tell LB to do pass 1 for all the shapes, then pass 2, etc.
For shapes with small details this feature would make a huge difference.
Or is there a way to achieve this that I didn’t found ?

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An example of how to make 6 successive passes:

Here I have made 5 shapes using the C00 layer with appropriate settings for a single pass.

I then:

  • selected all 5 shapes
  • CTRL+D (duplicate)
  • click layer 01
  • CTRL+D (duplicate)
  • click layer 02
  • CTRL+D (duplicate)
  • click layer 03
  • CTRL+D (duplicate)
  • click layer 04
  • CTRL+D (duplicate)
  • click layer 05
  • In the Cuts / Layers pane select C00, then click to copy the selected cut setting into the cache
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  • select C01, then click to apply the caches cut setting to the selected cut layer
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  • select C02, then click to apply the caches cut setting to the selected cut layer
  • select C03, then click to apply the caches cut setting to the selected cut layer
  • select C04, then click to apply the caches cut setting to the selected cut layer
  • select C05, then click to apply the caches cut setting to the selected cut layer
  • set optimization settings’ top criteria to order by layer
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Why is it that you want this?

Method two / Option two:

(an example for 3 passes this time)

Here I have made 5 shapes using the C00 layer with appropriate settings for a single pass:

I then

  • CTRL+D to duplicate this grouping (once)
  • CTRL+D to duplicate this grouping (twice)
  • set optimization settings to order by group and be sure that you do not have remove overlapping lines enabled
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Thank you @Stroonzo, that is a nice workaround.

As I said in the post, for small detailed cuts it can help a lot.

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