Thanks for the reminder! We saw the purple button, so I re-seated the head, power cycled, and all was well.
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Beautiful! Nice you could get an in person look!
Um… Your wife doesn’t know??? 
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Got that yesterday (and yes I reported it). I’ve noticed very few bugs thus far - though it could be that I attribute most mistakes to my own lack of experience, rather than the machine. So this bug threw me for a loop. When I the purple button started flashing, I decided that the machine had been possessed and turned it off/unplugged.
So yeah, glad to hear that others have encountered this. I was considering an exorcism, but it sounds like there may be more reasonable solutions 
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Awesome Butterfly! So many Glowfolk meeting in real life! When is Glowcon happening!
I’m just picturing your conversation with your wife when the Glowforge arrives.
“Honey, remember that wooden butterfly you liked so much. Well, now we can make as many as we want!”
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Wonderful to see this joyful smile! Glad you enjoyed your visit @PFI-Guy - and kudos to @dwardio for opening up your home and sharing this experience 
Oh, and the butterfly is stunning! Hope your wife loves it.
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Initially, it was going to be a Christmas '15 surprise. Once it got pushed back a couple of times, I thought not to mention much about the GF 
until I get an @Rita email on the shipping date.
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She is the creative part of the marriage. I REALLY have to work hard on artistic things. My forte is being thrown into the “brier patch” and cleaning it up to make things work. Thus PFI-Guy (Please Fix IT).
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Well at least it sounds like a good surprise for her then?
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Awesome! The experience and the design! 
Good on you dwardio!
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Love the Glowforge meet up and the butterfly is gorgeous. Overcame the design gremlins well.
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Wonderful work! I’m so sorry for the failure - thanks for reporting it. That in particular is a defect we think we have licked on the latest builds but every report helps us make sure we’re not missing something.
Regarding the double cuts… what you want is to click the white area, not the black area. Click means “cut this out”, so if you click on a line, it will cut out the line itself!
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Thanks. In retrospect, using the trace feature in the app was probably the way to go. 
Yup. That was the way to do it. Here’s a different butterfly traced from a printed silhouette.
It only took ~2 minutes to click each off the interior cutouts.
Btw, I tried the scan direct from the iPad trick, but couldn’t get a glare-free image.
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I had to turn out the shop lights that were on, and I saw the glare from the bed lights and didn’t think it would work, but it did. Too bad, my experience was delightful - but it was also stark black and white line art.
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I dinked around and was eventually able to find the sweet spot with the right lighting. Otoh, the laser printer was sitting right there…
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Nice post, dig the butterflies. I’m curious to see what you guys got at the Colorado Plastics thing. More info about that would be really cool… cheers from Boulder!
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I ended up with about 10 pounds of acrylic in 1/8 & 1/4. Almost all of it is cast. Mostly clear with some black, translucent bronze, and ivory.
In was hoping for brightly colored translucent in orange or red, but no joy.
The 4th Friday deal is pretty good – half off regular scrap pricing and they waive the $25 minimum, which turned out not to be an issue.
Oh, and anything that would fit in the GF is scrap to them…
They had big (4x5x8 in, maybe) bricks of delrin for $5 each, but I don’t have a way to get them down to GF-friendly slices. Rats!
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I got several 1/8, 3/16 and 1/4 clear acrylic remnant pieces. Also got a variety of colored acrylics for $1.37 per pound.
They had some machine grade clear polycarbonate (not for lasering).
The 3 that I got were 2.5 x 10 x 6.6 and with a carbide tipped table saw blade, I plan to cut the to various workable parts. The staff member said that a regular monthly order from a specific clients produces about a dozen and a half each month.
Me too! I did locate a small plastics vendor in Fort Collins that has some they stock (hoping for remnants on their discount rack).
So @max.kudisch, did you get in during the crowdfunding time frame and have you put your approximate location on the Glowforge Map ( see https://community.glowforge.com/t/glowforge-map )?
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Wow, that’s awesome. I will definitely have to get some “scrap”.
I purchased my glowforge in June of last year so unfortunately still
waiting.
Wasn’t aware of the map thread, will check it out.
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