She ran a test. The P2 now moved like a cheetah: one clean pass for the border, one for the stars, one for the lines. No stuttering, no re-burns, no scorch marks from repeated passes.
Three months later, Mira’s shop had grown. She taught a class called “SVG Sanity.” Her first lesson? Always, always run the xTool deduplication tool. xtool deduplication feature
She stopped the machine. Her log file told the truth: the SVG had nested layers, hidden duplicates, and overlapping vectors. The laser was cutting each star two, sometimes three times. For 2,000 coasters, that meant 6,000 passes. She’d be done next Thursday. She ran a test
“I’m sunk,” she whispered to her cat, Sparky. Three months later, Mira’s shop had grown
“It’s not laziness,” she said. “It’s respect for the material. The laser is a scalpel. Deduplication tells it where to cut only once. Everything else is just vandalism.”
The Ghost in the Machine