Imagine a silhouette of a bird in a cage with lots of flowers round about, then using the outline of the silhouette as a vector path to cut it out of a piece of thin black card, letter or A4 size. The whole cutting process might take about 2 minutes.
My job is to cut this complicated design out of 5 mm black acrylic, sized 650mm x 450mm. So I can price the job appropriately, I want to know how long it will take, so I set my machine up to run the job with the lid up so no laser was firing, and now 40 minutes later it is still going.
Has anyone found a way, in either Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw, to find out the combined length of all the vector lines in a file? If there was a way of doing that, I could have an idea of how long each job might take, before having to do the dry run.