Still hoping to see the little magnet. Nothing yet. Really hoping to see this show up soon.
Ah, yes. Probably will only show up after you configure it. Makes sense it’s not there.
@bonny I am having issues with SnapMarks. I tried the tutorial and a pass thru project and alignment was way off… I am using illustrator with the marks at the specified size in mm… when searching for the marks on the print to align the artwork, it say something that everything is fine… in the screen it does not seem align… I went and print it anyway and it was way off in the print… even more than in the screen…
The size of the marks is correct. I am suspecting one thing.
The lid of the printer came a litttle bit twisted from factory… right side closes slightly lower than the left… if I push the left side I can feel it bouncing back a bit… maybe this is causing some issues with the image…
I will try a simple project to see if this is the case, but I was wondering if you have access to my projects and try to see if there’s an issue with the machine or not.
Thanks
The lid being twisted won’t affect a Snapmark print. The lid camera is used to initially find the Snapmarks but then the head camera determines the precise position. Did the head go to both Snapmarks to take a Snapshot? Can’t say why yours is off yet.
Separate from that, if your lid is raised at a front corner that can usually be corrected by placing very thing shims under one or more corners, under the GF feet. You can usually tell by slightly lifting on each corner to identify where to shim.
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Thank you for the info… it does go to the mark… the head I mean… it finds it in place but I think the red dot is too far away when checking the top right mark…
I think it might be that my material (veneer) is not as super extrémely flat. I will do a couple more tries and document them well.
You have to flatten the material completely flat to get good results. You can use honeycomb pins or tape to flatten out the veneer.
Tape seems to help but not fix the issue I will see your other solution.
Can we use magnets to hold the material?
Yes you can use thin magnets… Personally, I would try a different flat material for a test. Eliminate, the obvious problem sources.
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Have to do the tutorial 
pencils…
I’ve been meaning to post some things that I’ve made on this wonderful forum, but I need your help to get a project finished. I’ve used Snapmarks successfully on a few simple projects (including the pencils), but it does not like the one I made for this height guide fixture. I’m printing a ruler on one side and have some markings for the back side. I used the exact same file as a base to add the back side artwork, with the snapmark layer locked, and I get this “Snapmarks do not match” error.
I have tried multiple times to copy and paste the snapmarks from one file to the other, and that didn’t work. I also tried 2 sets of snapmarks (hence the blue tape covering them up), which had the same error. I made a sample score on the same material (0.2" NPG maple ply) which worked fine when testing the snapmarks (not with the same exact artwork), so I know the contrast is okay. I’m all out of ideas- am I missing something?
Quick update- I just used the same file to score the snapmarks on a test piece. Then I moved the artwork in GFUI (leaving the material in the exact same place) and tried to use the magnet to realign the artwork, and I get the same error.
Any suggestions?
You could try placing a sheet of white paper underneath the jig on the left and right sides. The Snapmarks might be scored too close to the edges, and the red laser dot that takes the height measurement is falling off of the material. (You want to not cut too closely to the Snapmarks at the outside edges of the jig.)
Other than that, you’ll want to check the distance between the snapmarks in the file, and compare it to the distance between the printed snapmarks. They have to be exact. (But it sounds like the first one, since you can’t snap one that you immediately scored.)
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So - I have not seen this answered elsewhere, but does the type of machine you have (basic, plus, pro) have anything to do with if you have been given snapmarks?
Ie - are others that are slumming with basic machines like I am (
) getting snapmarks enabled?
Jason
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Getting or not getting snap marks has nothing to do with which model of Glowforge you have. It has to do with particular metrics of each individual machine…metrics about which we are not informed. (Even if we were, I’d have no clue what they were talking about). I have a basic and I have Snapmarks. It’s sort of a crapshoot.
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The first few attempts were done with snapmarks where the blue tape is on the first photo I posted, which are well inside the boundaries of the material. I tried adding a second set of snapmarks more in the middle of the bed (about 1/2" from edges), and when I got the same error with that, I tried covering up the top snapmarks, but no difference in results:( . The head unit never moves at all (when working properly, it at least moves to the leftmost snapmark and then to the right one).
The measurements are spot on. I’m wondering if it has something to do with my artwork file.
It might. If you want to zip it and post it here I can try to load it. What design program are you using? (Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDraw?)
That would be great- thanks Jules! Here you go. I’m using Inkscape.
SG Height Guide- heights (outlines) new.svg.zip (111.1 KB)
Okay, that took a while cause I’m extremely slow in Inkscape (but using Illustrator introduces size variations) so anyway…all I did was shift all of the information in your file over so that it was on the artboard before saving it as a Plain SVG and it snapped just fine and reburned the marks right over the tops of the originals.
When I loaded your SVG file, I got the same error message.
So I’m guessing you’ll just need to create your files on a 20" x 12" artboard, and make sure that the entire design is on the artboard before you save it. 
2SG Height Guide- heights (outlines).zip (120.2 KB)
I don’t have snapsmarks yet but I do a lot of work on the passthrough and if my work is outside the maximum area that the glowforge can cut then it won’t work. I am sure that snapmarks are the same. You can’t be outside of the max cut area not even a millimeter or it won’t work.
I have found that your artboard can’t be any bigger than the max size the glowforge can actually cut 19.5 x 11 otherwise you run the risk of setting something outside the are the glowforge can cut and will run in to problems. Open this file on inkscape or illustrator it’s the max area that you can cut on the glowforge.
Use it to make your artboard the same size.
As long as you are within the same size then I hope everything should work for you
max cut glowforge.ai (1.0 KB)
So… when you made that suggestion to measure, apparently I didn’t measure correctly at that time, but after taking a second look, it’s off. I noticed that your file actually snapped to my test sample, but the snapmarks were spread farther. After reading more posts, it looks like I had the 90dpi vs 96dpi issue using the previous Inkscape version. I’ll be re-testing with everything in the new version, but I’m optimistic it’ll work fine. The weird thing is that I’ve used the snap marks for other projects (created in Inkscape) and it’s worked okay…
Somehow I missed all the [many] conversations about this issue! I’ll confirm once I’ve tested. Thanks for your help, Jules!
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