Grid Lines

[byrnes40oh]

I would love to have the option to click on grid lines. This would ensure that I have my material lined up straight, epically when using passthrough mode.

[dklgood]

Yes, that would be helpful for sure. Since Glowforge staff does not monitor this forum, your suggestion will not be viewed by the people that can make this happen. Please contact them through their support page with this request.

[evansd2]

(or via support@glowforge.com)

[rbtdanforth]

Or you can correlate the measured distances on the screen with these in the crumb tray…

Two sticks to rule the world

Well, the world inside a Glowforge anyway! Having some scrap plywood I thought to make a 20-inch ruler that would define the space available and set accurate measuring points, I set Inkscape with a 1/10-inch grid and a snap-to-grid so they were dead on accurate and as I was doing it realized that I could not engrave or even cut the full length, so I measured a horizontal line as close as I could get to the max cut area, and cut the rulers down to that. I could not decide which side to put the i…

[geek2nurse]

@MyDogsThinkImCrazy has come up with a grid thingy and has videos that show how to use it. She can probably point you to where to find the info – I’ve been happy enough with Set Focus that I haven’t needed to investigate her method too deeply.