Bounding boxes around objects interfere with laser cutting.

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April 8, 2025
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Is there a way to eliminate the bounding boxes around objects? They appear to be interfering when cutting files on an Epilog laser cutter.

I've tried flattening and grouping, but no luck. What am I missing?

For some reason I was not able to attach the .ai file, but was able to attach the .pdf, but the results are the same either way.

Thank you for your time.

Drews_Chipboard.pdf

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You have patterns applied that are probably causing this.

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Nicholas368047169z50Author

Participant

Thank you for taking a look.

Yes, there are halftones. But the issue is that each halftone has a separate bounding box and they are interacting and creating a laser cut image that shows where those bounding boxes are.

If you check out the file, there does not appear to be any patterns that completely fill their bounding boxes, so not sure why the halftones would be the problem. I am wondering if there is a setting for each object that I’m missing which is causing the boxes to be made visible upon output. Or a way to unify each object into a single bounding box.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

I don't know why your laser cutting software does not like what you are doing. Probably you should investigate that.

And if you cannot use a pattern, then you will need to expand the pattern and then cut off what you do not need.

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