Good to hear that you have identified the axis alignment problem.
The Vectric 'pattern fill' will often produce a ziz-zag Gcode toolpath which, as you have discovered, is totally unsuitable for laser work.
The best alternative (IMO) is to raster engrave a bitmap where the axis acceleration/deceleration zones are outside the pattern area. Although the Mach3 Impact/Laser engraver plugin will do this extremely well it relies on 32bit Parallel Port operation and many (like me) have now moved on to 64bit PC’s. Warp9 are working to perfect a laser, raster image function for their ESS and Mach4 and Artsoft are also working on an independent raster scan function for Mach4.
Perhaps sad to say but there are other competitive softwares out there which perform laser raster scanning extremely well but I shall leave it to you to look.
Tweakie.