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She clicked Yes .

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.

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.

“I’m sunk,” she whispered to her cat, Sparky.

When a massive batch of custom coasters goes wrong, a small print-on-demand shop discovers that the most powerful tool in their xTool laser isn't more power, but the humble "Deduplication Feature."

Tonight was the nightmare. A viral TikTok video had featured her “Constellation Coasters”—a intricate map of stars cut into walnut wood. Orders exploded. 2,000 units. Due in 72 hours.


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