Start with a circle, choose a heavy stroke!
Click and drag whilst holding the alt key to duplicate, press the shift key to allign anchor point to anchor point.
Press Ctrl + D to duplicate the command, and make an array of 8 x 8.
Outline the stroke via the edit tab > path > outline stroke.
Window > Pathfinder > merge
This joins all those individual shapes together!
Give the artwork a black fill
Ungroup the artwork and release the cliping mask, the artwork has two layers - choose one and move it to the right. Increase the size of the artboard if nessesary.
Ok - this image has it all!
All black data will engrave
All red data will mark
All blue data will cut
Cyan will cut
Black circles, blue outline
Black infils, blue outline
Blue strokes, cyan outline
Red srokes, blue outline
The four together - look how happy they are!
Speedy 300 firing its red laser at the card below
overview of the process
Hot close up action!
Might need a better camera!
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