I was trying out a grayscale engrave, and something weird happened. The Glowforge was making a thumping sound whenever it reached the edge of the engrave, and each line was shifted to the right.
Here is a picture of what it was trying to do, and what I was getting.
Did you power down and back up and try again? Seems like it lost its positional data (which is where physical limit switches usually come in play to stop that). Wouldn’t be surprised rebooting the machine and restarting the software would fix it.
I had a thumping. Not sure if it was the same as yours. I called it “headbanging.” It did that against the left edge of the bed. It banged several times, then stopped for about 30 seconds, then did it again. Support started to investigate. I powered off, manually homed the head, powered on. Everything was fine.
That sounds rather unhealthy. Gear not turning maybe.
Have you had a chance to power cycle and try a small job?
After the power cycle, was homing typical?
Okay, did some more testing.
It’s definitely the file. It happens every time I try to engrave that file. It is a SVG that has a PNG embedded in it. When I load the PNG, it prints fine. When I load this, it freaks out.
I’m pretty sure the file is possessed . Possibly by a gremlin , maybe something more …sinister .
If you haven’t yet, it will be a big help to all of us if you send that file to Support for analysis. I mean… It sounds like it could actually cause damage. No file should make your unit perform like that.
The circle is not a path but remains a stroke, but that didn’t make a difference. I loaded it fine and it cut the circle ok. Just resized it in the GFUI.