Auto Camera Calibrate Suggestion

[mhumphrey]

@tim1724

I certainly understood your point. But tossing around the phrase “everyone on the planet” in this case is equivalent to saying “everyone on the planet” measures in feet and inches. Nope, it’s just us.

Hey, plenty of us Americans aren’t happy with feet and inches either

[chris1]

Didn’t you know Glowforge is just a ploy by the Trump administration to push imperial units on the rest of the world?

[paulw]

How repeatable are the honeycombs? I’m sure that nominally they’re some particular size and start at some particular phase.

[johnse]

In response to another question about focus height, @dan had this to say

@dan

It’s all very approximate, since as soon as you start using your bed it begins to deform slightly. It’s used for dewarping, but that inaccuracy is one of the reasons lid camera alignment is only approximate right now.

When you autofocus, it measures the distance to the head, and then focuses very precisely.

Right now it always focuses on the surface. Wood and acrylic both produce total internal reflection at 10600nm so that produces excellent results throughout the cut.

[dannyc]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I’ll pass them on to the team.