We ordered, and then we waited. And waited. And waited more. And then waited so long the word “waited” looked really weird. Long after we forgot what we were waiting for, a big box showed up and then (after waiting another week for the extra ventilation stuff) WE BURNED. So here’s how it went!
First thing, bring up the holy Founder’s Ruler. I put a slab of the PG maple y’all so kindly sent, right in the middle of the bed, and…
No QR magic. Glare from the LEDs, I’m guessing? I moved the wood so the sticker was in the middle and it read it successfully. I started the burn then turned on our secondary blower and everything went off without a hitch. I have the ‘Forge on a roller cart I can roll out the door to our back stairwell to the roof, connect to the provided 8’ vent hose into a 190 CFM fan followed by another 20’ of hose. I didn’t smell any smoke in the stairwell or in the office and nobody came up to complain about the noise. Whew!
Not at all familiar with the GFUI workflow, the next thing I did was delete the ruler from the project and upload a new design to try out. Because this is where you make the laser happen, right? When I went back to make another ruler I realized I’d nuked it and AFAICT there’s currently no easy way to get it back.
I spent the rest of the afternoon messing around, learning a lot of stuff but mostly learning that I need to learn a lot more. The only definite bug I ran into…
has to go into another post because I can only do one image at a time. (cont…)