Thin line engraving problem

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

Try this thread and see if that helps…

How to optimize moves

The option you likely want is called Flood Fill, but there’s a caveat: it’s almost always the wrong thing to use. I’ll explain: Standard raster scanning moves left to right, bottom to top (or top to bottom), in a smooth, continuous motion, resulting in very even output. Flood fill, or what you call intelligent fill, scans portions of the shape surrounded by whitespace, then moves to a different portion and fills that, and so on. The jumping around means that you rarely move bottom to top con…