I don’t think GF staff would have commented on non-PG materials. I’m thinking the “your jars should work fine” may have come from a Facebook group or somesuch.
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I have some over 2" and it has been a rough start. Never seen any spec on glasses at all. Not going to lie, after I heard that I could etch I was purchasing because that was my main goal. I’ll get through this though. I just won’t be speaking through facebook anymore; that was my source before purchasing.
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I was speaking on facebook in the beginning. Right before I purchased I began talking with an actual agent. No pointing of the finger because I should have re-asked questions and not relied on groups.
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Could be that it wasn’t anyone from Glowforge that told them that…maybe on Facebook?
Great minds…Ruth!
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The FB groups are notoriously full of bad and often dangerous information about GF and laser cutting in general. For your own health and safety please never take any information from them seriously without verifying somewhere else.
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UPDATE: I would like to say THANK YOU to all of you who supported me during my distress. I truly appreciate you. From the words of encouragement, to the membered that reached out to me, well into the video helps. The palpations doesn’t thump with weary any longer. Now that doesn’t mean that I’ve mastered things; I am merely stating that if I could embrace you all, I would. A patch of hair grew back lol.
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Congratulations on getting some hair back. We look forward to seeing your projects one day.
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Good luck with YOUR hair growing back. I wasn’t so lucky. 
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Silly question …how do I find out how much I am paying a month?
app.glowforge.com
Click on your printer’s name (upper right hand corner)
Click Settings
Click Purchase History
Click Manage Subscription
or for right now go direct to: Glowforge - the 3D laser printer and click Manage Subscription
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Not to necrothread, but yeah, caching the motion planning to a posted part (so you could instantly start cutting would be awesome). Obviously there could be some change in the firmware requiring a re-planning but I would guess the times it changes to break prior jobs would be pretty scarce and it would be a big advantage. Just like in machining/3D printing once it’s g-code you just load and go, but I’ve had slicing tasks for machining where my computer takes 15 minutes to calculate the 3D adaptive machining paths and once it’s computed it caches that.
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Yeah likely nothing will change as the Glowforge has no onboard memory. Been using the Lightburn software that came with my laser and it’s night and day more advanced by comparison.
Not sure what you mean by that, but it’s definitely not accurate.
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You wouldn’t cache like what I meant on the device (just like on my Prusa the g-code is held on the raspberry pi running onctoprint); in other words I am simply saying save the motion planing step which can take minutes for huge designs. You have to download the motion instructions anyway. And yes dedicated design packages exceed the capabilities of the GF premium tools (as they should) just like on my X-Carve there is easel and I then use a combination of fusion360 and v-carve pro. I have only done a few designs in premium, mostly quick (I need a sign engraved on two-color acrylic RIGHT NOW (like the electrician wants a tag for something and is here installing something)) Otherwise I normally use illustrator and OnShape or Fusion360.
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It’s stores how many files or settings? None. Yes it will cache a single internet file for a single process then dump. Not what I would call file storage. Semantics really but a bad design for sure.
It’s got 4GB of onboard eMMC storage. That should be plenty for storing g-code if they wanted to. Not using the onboard memory for something isn’t the same as not having onboard memory.
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Does it Really matter? Lol. Not using it is virtually the same as not there. Again, semantics.
Yes, it’s material to the conversation we were having.
Someone suggested Glowforge add a feature where it caches g-code of jobs so they can be re-run without processing the design each time.
You replied that it’s likely nothing will change “because the Glowforge has no onboard memory”.
That’s suggesting that the change is unlikely because it’s not possible to add such a feature without onboard memory, but the Glowforge does have onboard memory. It’s possible for the requested feature to be added in the future via a firmware update.
Whether or not the Glowforge has the necessary hardware for a feature request is not semantics.
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Ok you can win the semantic argument that still has and will have no solution. Lol. Maybe the update will be added to the Premium subscription!
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