Engraving without the bed

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I know it’s overly complicated but here is a Tips and Tricks link explaining the process in detail. Basically the top of your material must be somewhere between 0" and 0.433" above where the crumbtray top was. The crumbtray is the 0.0" reference for material height. So the material height needs to be set somewhere in that range.

Tutorial: How to cut without the Crumb Tray (Honeycomb)

Tutorial: How to cut objects too thick to have the honeycomb in place The GlowForge has a maximum material thickness it can cut through, but there is a maximum thickness you can even put on the honeycomb (crumb tray) even if you are surface engraving as the laser has a limited focus range of 0.01" - 0.4" *** above the surface of the honeycomb at the time of this tutorial. But let’s say you wanted to engrave something thicker that fits quite nicely inside the GlowForge but not with the crumb tray…