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I did this clean today and now my laser doesn't score or engrave properly. Everything is off by just a little bit. What can I do to fix it? I am doing a recalibration of the camera right now and the test pattern is not looking good either.
What software are you using? Is it the glow forge or a different software? I’m new to laser cutting and don’t have a glow forge but want a user friendly program. Thanks.
Hello, This tutorial is so helpful and easy to follow. I have one question. I am noticing that the letters are very snug when in the puzzle and hard to get out. Do you have any tips to help with that? We are having to hit it on the table for them to fall out. Have you done any pegs before? I am making them for visually impaired students and they are loving them thus far!
I love my glowforge, but it seems like they went out of their way to make it it difficult to clean. Every fan in the whole thing is a nightmare to get to and clean, and instead of isolating the wood smoke and resin to one easy to clean area, they let it go everywhere, even on electronics.
So i loosened the screw with the allen wrench to get the belt off. Now i keep tightening it back with the allen wrench but the belt is still loosey goosey. what am i doing wrong?
Do you have “how to” plans for the tool that holds your tape? I’m assuming it’s permanently attached to your work bench? Great info….thank you very much!
How did you do the lines for the shiplap ? It’s not showing be RKY well in video . I really want to learn how to do this. Also what kind of wood did you use and how thick?Thank you
i know im asking the wrong place but does anyone know of a method to log back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid forgot my account password. I would love any tips you can give me.
@Raphael Ali thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Good video. Isn't the air assist fan not so much for cooling but to blow the smoke out of the way of the laser beam so it's not trying to cut through a thick cloud?
I imagine you can select those portions in a program outside of glowforge, set them to a different color, and then in glowforge it will notice it as two different objects and you can set it to engrave the inside of the letters instead of cutting. Never used the glowforge but that's what people seem to do.
How do you get rid of the burn marks on the edges? All cutouts on plywood leave burn marks and handling the bits will leave black marks on your hands. What do you do about that? :) As an observation, Rainbow has 7 colours :D
Because it is a laser it is going to leave some burn marks on the edging. However, I have noticed that black marks that transfer to hands and other materials is because my settings were off I was going at too slow of a speed or too high of a power.
I would love to see a step by step of how to do the shiplap. I currently use a router with an attachment to cut my wood rounds. Are you using a scroll saw?
When you are describing how to remove the box around the heart, you do it so fast, i cannot figure it out..i mean i can just "ignore" that in GF I just want to know how to do it..You like click and its gone, you dont really show how to do it. i mean i clicked also and nothing happens..where do you click? what do you click? it looks like you just clicked randomly and it dissapeared..very annoying..
