jan3ll3

Flobnoit, I hope it works for you! The Epilogs are so awesome ❤️ Makes sense now why your way worked for my laser! I'm still figuring out this transition myself. All of my old Illustrator files have their cutting lines set to .001 and when I imported them they would vanish to 0 width unless I highlighted them with the node tool and change them to .1 (which luckily still reads as a cut). But having to change all my files this way will take forever... (& upvoted those threads b/c that would be a great update to see). You may already have known this but just in case --I did find out that you can make .001 an option but you have to go to: preferences> decimal places for unit types> change "points" to 3. (well I have mine set to points) The problem though is it's still invisible. .01 is barely visible and .1 seems the best option to work with. I also found that if you want to select one of your lines that need to be changed and uniform in width you can select its layer box and go up on the menu to select> select same stroke weight and then omg, you can change all of 'em at once! 🙂 Augh, I was so happy when I learned that. I guess it was added in the update. I really hope they add a hairline width that you can see and work with clearly. (Even if you have to check and extra setting for better visibility as in a 1 width stroke) That's how I would work in Illustrator anyhow.

Hey 🙂 I'm assuming you mean laser cutter vs. printer; either way, I was super stuck until I saw your post... Kept trying to print to the laser and the orientation was landscape/vertical and horizontal/portrait? What? Lol-- But I'd left it set at automatic since that had always worked for me before coming from Illustrator. I switched to portrait after immense frustration and reading what you went through and oh my gosh, it worked... (you can see where I did a test file and the bottom part where it began making the file huge and off to the side...) must have stopped it four or five times. Sooo I don't know what kind of laser you have or if you can do the same thing and it work, but I just saved a profile for my settings on print after it was successful. It would be better to have a checkbox like you mentioned though. Maybe there's a way to save the orientation when printing from Designer that you can preset to keep from messing up future projects. I know how annoying that can be-