Bed Size vs Cutting Dims - lots of wasted material

[PrintToLaser]

To prevent the lost margins I cut a full sheet down to accommodate my designs. These two pieces are a full 12 x 20 piece of material…

The cost is having to run two ops instead of one.

[davidgal2]

You REALLY got all the goody out of those.

[jamesdhatch]

@GetItLaserEngraved

There are time when the image is off to the left or right or to the top by as much as 1/4".

Have you run the calibration routine? Most everyone who has done so gets sub-mm placement accuracy.

[Pearl]

@jamesdhatch

so I don’t have a last batch with just 3 cookies on the pan wasting all the electricity to bake those last 3 ).

Who would have 3 cookies left to bake??? Have you never heard of raw cookie dough???

[mpipes]

The bed accommodates 18" x 20" material, not just 12"x20". Sure, it can’t cut the extra 6" of material in the same operation but you can still utilize that dead space at the top/rear edge of the tray to maximize material use.

@evansd2

Now lets go with a higher end material: 1/8" cast acrylic from estreet, 12x24" for $6.35. That’s 2.2 cents per square inch. Losing that 2x12 strip is only about fifty cents.

Go with an 18"x24" sheet and you lose no material if you utilize the front door.

[gooddog]

Yes, exactly!

[rbtdanforth]

@davidgal2

You REALLY got all the goody out of those.

Making the earsavers I did not have near that much left over. There was not even a rectangle to show the hole

[nunzioc]

Oooh, I didn’t know about this; can you please let me know where I can find those instructions? Mine is definitely off about 1/4 to 1/3rd of an inch from the top…

Thank you!

[evansd2]

Search the forum for camera calibration.

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=Camera%20Calibration

Lots of threads about this, they’re worth reading. The one you’ll probably want to start with is a few down the list:

Camera Calibration Community Discussion Thread

This thread is for community discussion of Camera Calibration. Camera Calibration is designed to take machines that are more than 1/4" out of alignment and fix them. Many other customers have also used it to improve their camera alignment, and we encourage you to try too! The calibration process will let you know if it was able to make any improvements, and will leave things alone if not. Launch the Camera Recalibrator When you’re done, if you measure your camera accuracy and it’s more tha…

Search is your buddy!

[marmak3261]

Original design bed size got fixed as a hardware thing. The usable area was a larger target that maybe didn’t get fulfilled as much as they would like, but it has increased over time.

Proofgrade was something that wasn’t even announced during the crowdfunding window. So having material available with those specific dimensions isn’t even part of the equation. There were early discussions before Proofgrade was announced about having to cut down standard 24" sheets and waste them.

They could have had the materials line always part of the plan, but I’d say the hardware/size constraints of the machine, especially with optical centering, were the driving forces.

And France gets food for another month!

[jamesdhatch]

@Pearl

Have you never heard of raw cookie dough???

I used to love that as a kid. My wife is disinclined to allow that anymore - salmonella I’m sure the odds are pretty low but the odds of getting the stink-eye are virtually 100% so no cookie dough in 30 years.

[jaltschuld]

I can’t in good faith like this post… my wife makes cookie dough balls and likes to freeze them before baking. Then she gets mad and confused when a few days after freezing, there are less balls than when she put them in the freezer.

[Jules]

You know that’s a myth to keep you guys from eating all the cookie dough, right?

[ekla]

There’s a salmonella free cookie dough bar (yes, you’re meant to eat it like ice cream and in the same quantities!) at Ponce City Market in Atlanta. I think it’s called Batter?

[evansd2]

@ekla

I think it’s called Batter?

Can attest that it was quite good, at least before COVID.

@Jules

that’s a myth

CDC estimates Salmonella bacteria cause about 1.35 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths in the United States every year. Food is the source for most of these illnesses.

https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/index.html

They’ve really committed to the gag if they made this site just to prank us.

[Jules]

Joke.

[geek2nurse]

Fun fact: They’ve completely eliminated salmonella in Denmark.

[ekla]

@evansd2

They’ve really committed to the gag if they made this site just to prank us.

Billions of Asians eat raw egg in hot pot sauce (raw egg + sha cha/bbq sauce + soy sauce). Just sayin…

[geek2nurse]

Sukiyaki is not the same without the raw egg. And katsudonburi. Also my mom used to feed us homemade milkshakes with a raw egg mixed in when we were sick, to try to get protein into us. And I’ve probably eaten mountains of raw cookie dough in my lifetime. Not to mention eggnog, and homemade ice cream…

Then again, this was my car seat, and it didn’t kill me, so maybe I just lead a charmed life…

[Jules]

Lucky you! Your parents must have cared. Ours was a flat slightly padded board that folded down across the back seat (eliminating the leg space) and we were allowed to bounce around on it and had to crawl on our knees to get from one side of the car to the other. (I’d forgotten that…it was great for napping on those 18 hour road trips.)

Probably wasn’t the safest idea. We did tend to wind up in a little pile against the back seat if dad hit the brakes.