Hey y'all, I'm relatively new to laserweb (and laser engraving), but really enjoying laserweb.

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Hey y’all, I’m relatively new to laserweb (and laser engraving), but really enjoying laserweb.

Regarding vector fill paths: I’m engraving the negative space around (big, bold) text, and I’ve messed around with the settings enough to get a decently reliable fill, but I just don’t love the way the horizontal lines look, and also laserweb’s algorithm picks a pretty weird pattern of engraving them (skipping around the design a bunch)–not that the latter is much of a big deal.

I was wondering if it’s possible to do something like:
a) instead of filling the space with horizontal lines, basically do a series of progressively smaller “laser cut inside” operations–tracing out the letters in a smaller and smaller fashion to fill the space

or

b) do a crosshatch (or similar pattern). like a pass of horizontal lines, and then a second pass of vertical lines.

is anything like this possible with laserweb?

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You can do your own crosshatch using the angle feature in that operation. So do one with 45 degree and the other inverse

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The files is called Deg

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Ohh! I never understood what that angle parameter was for. I’ll try that out, thank you.

What about (a)? I was able to do it manually in illustrator by copying the path and applying the ‘offset path’ operation a ton of times. (See attached svg and gcode). I wonder if there’s any way for laserweb to do that? (it’s way too much effort in illustrator)

files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4onxH2pQeOnYzFVV1g4WERUeWs?usp=sharing

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@Jacob_Evans that’s more of design relayed thus I don’t see any software making that for you. If you feel that you want the burn to be more black then the laser diameter must be at 0.1