Wow, great idea! I need to do that. Or at least, try.
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I might be able to ‘share’ it for people to implement. Let me see.
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That would be fantastic!
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That’s brilliant, actually.
That’s a great idea, I’m now inspired to go grab one of my notebooks and put it on my laser table.
I think I figured a way to port it to anyone who want it. I’ll try and share it tonight. It would also be cool for people here to shape it into something better!
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eek! I don’t have bed position in my log for speed/power/etc settings for my projects.
I understand orientation (e.g. horizontal ruler engraving vs vertical ruler engraving movement) causing differences, but does position within the same orientation impact time (e.g. left side middle vs. center of bed vs right side front)?
Mine’s an excel spreadsheet. I also include the colors in the job and settings by color as well as if I’m using a preset PG setting. But I don’t add up the time to warn me about the 40 hour cleaning, mostly I let it get dirty or it starts to cut less efficiently 
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This is a great idea!!
well, doesn’t the head move more slowly near the edges, for one?
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That’s true. I don’t do much edge cutting - the no-go zone wouldn’t let me for so long that I haven’t bothered to move my GF ruler (I keep it against the left edge of the crumb tray to give me a straightedge for the left side of my material) so I didn’t think much about the edge speed reduction being a factor.
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I was going to do it in excel but I really like the idea of being able to access it anywhere - much like the Glowforge App. I have another sheet which has my material inventory which comes in handy when ordering (especially when I’m not home)
I will also admit that I have cleaned mine before the 40 hr mark. I still like having it alert me because then I can make sure I do a thorough cleaning. I figured you can’t clean it too much, as long as you’re careful.
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You too? (Man I feel like a piker now - all I record is the power/speed/FP settings that work for a particular material, and that tends to be on Post-it notes stuck all over the desk.)
Yeah, it’s not the best system, but it’s worked so far. I lose one once in a while to changes to the system, but I’m expecting that to happen now. (Need to finish compiling that one of these days I guess.) 
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I have a WD personal cloud installed at home. All of my files go there. I can access them from anywhere on any device. I keep the Excel sheet open on one monitor and the GFUI in the other. Since I have to wait anyway, once I hit Print, I update the spreadsheet.
Then I eat cookies.
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definitely need to get me a stash of cookies 
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I’m still working through a stash of Thin Mints 
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Cue me becoming so much more organized… (no wait… cue me WANTING to be more organized and procrastinating creating this file like I do with everything else… 
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I was a little delayed tonight but I’m going to share it with everyone here that way all you have to do is log it - should have it up tomorrow
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By a few seconds, yes, since the head has further to go before it starts. (Once it’s there, the print runs just as fast).
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Posted the Google Form / Sheet file here:
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