I have some tips bookmarked (well one version anyway).
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Nice, I didn’t have that one. I have this instead from Make: http://makezine.com/2013/10/23/tutorial-laser-cutting-techniques-and-projects/
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Thats what I do too, cut the inner cuts first otherwise your focal length will be off if you elevate your material…which is a good idea to make sure you know that it has cut all the way through.
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Will you partner with @chadmart1076, please? Pretty please?
PLEASE!!!
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It looks great. And besides my niece wanting it for her toys, the way it looks would be awesome for some sort of covering over electronics that need air flow.
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The software will order the cuts inside to outside automatically, right?
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In my limited experience with other cutting software, that is a setting. Other common setting are: shortest path, small to large, and the inverse of each.
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Very cool! Love the inspiration and execution. I know that bench too. 
Nice work. Thanks so much for sharing!
Did you cut the basswood dowels as well? Looks like its a perfect fit. Any kerf compensation or whatever? Did you sand or finish with and stain or anything? Looks sharp!
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do let us know if and when you recollect! 
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I purchased the dowels and cut them flush with a razor knife after assembly. I did a test on a small range of hole sizes to account for the kerf before cutting the final. No glue, sanding, or finishing. Thanks Ryan!
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Great to see public beta users expressing their creativity with the tool we are all waiting for!
Thanks for contributing your time and sharing with us all! 
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Very nice job! Now to GF some graffiti like “I 
GF” engraved in the leg… 
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Kind of like this? Archi-Depot
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I saw a whole variety of those during our family trip to Tokyo! Utterly amazing, and something I’m sure will inspire many designers.
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Don’t we have a member that does amazing miniature modeling ( the hoel room with little luggages, etc). I’ll have to look back through the forum. Dan - assuming you were to create a tiny checkerboard out of light and dark 1/8 wood, what do you think the smallest (single color) square the GF could cut?
Would you settle for an etch? (I’ve assembled some laser-cut models with stopped-cut “sprues”, and those are typically well under 1/16, some more like 1/64)
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It would depend on the material (different woods are different densities). The smaller the piece, the more it might be “singed”, and the denser the wood, the less.
I have this handy - it might get you a sense of the scale of the finest possible detail by looking at the corner of one of the triangles. I’d estimate that you could get a 0.01" piece, but that’s very rough.
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Thanks so much for the reply ! Exceeded my expectations !!!
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Is this grid/hatchmark all laser cut lines?
I cannot see any reason for such a thing other than an endurance test. But I had never pictured the endurance tests being quite THAT brutal.
I wanna go sit in a corner and cry for the poor laser you made do this.
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Unless it was a Glowforge. In that case I’m cheering! 
EDIT) It is possible that they were trying to make some of this, ligneah
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