{"id":539,"date":"2026-08-05T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/?p=539"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:19:53","slug":"creating-files-for-laser-cutting-in-adobe-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/laser-cutting\/using-the-laser-cutter\/539\/creating-files-for-laser-cutting-in-adobe-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating files for laser cutting in Adobe Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vector vs Raster<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vector artwork is built from mathematical paths, not pixels, so the laser can follow them as a continuous line. This is the only format suitable for cutting. Use the pen tool in illustrator, or build geometric shapes using the rectangle, circle, and line tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raster artwork is pixel-based, so the laser can&#8217;t trace a line, it burns dot by dot. This means raster is fine for engraving but no good for cutting &#8211; convert anything you need cut into vector paths first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AUxtDCyaPFg\">using the Image Trace tool<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vector vs Raster Vector artwork is built from mathematical paths, not pixels, so the laser can follow them as a continuous line. This is the only format suitable for cutting. Use the pen tool in illustrator, or build geometric shapes using the rectangle, circle, and line tools. Raster artwork is pixel-based, so the laser can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[110,15,111,51,108,167,112],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-using-the-laser-cutter","tag-adobe","tag-cnc","tag-illustrator","tag-laser","tag-laser-cutter","tag-laser-cutting","tag-operation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}