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Kev,

That nailed it! turning Auto Rotate "off" did the trick. No more endless passes... and the engraving is much better.

My son had an "Ah Ha!" moment the other day... it really sunk in what...

The original reason I bought a Co2 laser is for one of our hobby businesses: UpperCutPads. We laser cut foam cheek pads for rifles and shotguns.

The thinner Denice hobby foam (2mm) cuts extremely...

George,

I also have Corel, but .dxf exports into Ezcad had lots of crazy hatch errors. The same bitmap art, traced in Inkscape exported as .plt files hatch perfectly and as expected. Windows 7.
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Great ideas! Thanks! He/we are taking a day off because that machine, as fantastic as it is, just makes us crazy with the nuances of the settings.

We are getting great, repeatable results on...

Continuous is not checked.

The only way I could get it to not continuously hatch was to uncheck [] Enable in the hatch dialog for each the three hatch settings.

Which is weird, because I...

New guy here.

My son purchased a 30w Chinese fiber laser and is having a great time figuring out the nuances of it.

He's lasered various things around the house just to get a feel for...