All of these are great updates but that āSet Focusā feature is wonderful! So often the automatically chosen spot falls off the edge of (or in a hole in) my material so being able to choose the spot is a big improvement. Plus it will make it less essential to measure exactly with calipers or to have completely flat materials! This is awesome!
Thatās a great point @tim1724: if youāre using your own materials, you can now skip measuring them and entering the height, and use Set Focus instead.
@Rita thanks as always you guys are wonderful. Keep up the great workā¦
I just LOVE how so many really cool and essential things are rolling out to us. Thank you so much team Glowforgeā¦youāre all doing an amazing job in keeping us happy and keeping our projects coming out better and better all the time.
Set Focus is a game-changer!
Hope folks are paying attention. 
Thanks team Glowforge!
Thanks for these great improvements!
Dan, I did that today with some cutting boards for the bar and it worked PERFECTLY. Of course, we still need calipers for determining the width of joints for 3D objects, but this definitely means they will get a lot less use!
Thank you!
Delighted this helped! The feedback is much appreciated.
Itās been a while since Iāve visited the community - so glad to see this update! Iāll have to go home and try out this new feature asap!
Thanks GF staff for the continued improvements!
I havenāt run anything since this announcement, but Iād think the thickness measurement would be found in the manual settings so you could just read it. So possibly no need for calipers at all?
When using Set Focus, the thickness just appears as āautoā.
Set Focus is a very nice addition. Seems like an incremental step closer to SNAPMARKS FOR ALL!
ā¦ fingers crossed ā¦
Iām not complaining - it is a very useful feature, and having designed and built software in the past, I know that sometimes the things that we think should be very easy to do / build / fix sometimes are far more complicated, particularly when they are added after the fact.
Iām going to guess that there is some special logic that tells the system to point to an internally stored value (the result of āset focusā) for the material height, and having the āautoā there may be a result of a logic branch that initiates a completely different set of processing.
Because it ājust worksā for me, I am *** PERFEFCTLY FINE *** with this approach. 
Oh, no doubt! My response was too generic. The fact that it populates āAutoā instead of the value that it obviously knows is what I was calling lame. But even at that, I kinda donāt care. It just seems to me that it measured something, it should report something. If for no other reason than for use to look at that result to kinda go āWait. That doesnāt seem right. I donāt think itās that thick.ā
Thereās just no pleasing some people. 
I agree. We could have it all and no issues and there would be those who would still find something wrongā¦
He was kidding, peopleā¦ the Dr. Evil meme is a dead giveaway. Yeah, weād love to see what the laser head measured the thickness as, but Iām not wanting them to waste time populating that value if theyāre working on cool stuff like āsnap marksā for everyone!! 
Set Focus will be a great help, especially when youāve got something propped up on risers because itās too thick for the crumbtrayā¦