Today it finally arrived! After paying a whole lot of government duties and calls to UPS about missing numbers and payments, my Glowforge is in the Netherlands!
Of course I could not wait to push uit that founders rule in inches. Because, you know, we don’t have anything else with inch scaling on it in Europe.
But I couldn’t wait to set it up on the kitchen counter, hoping my wife would allow it for the first night. Since the preorder campaign showed the GF in the kitchen, here is my (temp) setup!
Any tips on what to cut next? It is working on a 3d engrave of one of our wedding photo’s, but it is not looking like that will be a great succes worth posting.
Photographs aren’t going to work well with 3D engraving. You need a heightmap (where light colors represent high points and dark areas represent places to cut deeply) to get good 3D results. These will generally be created in 3D modeling programs. (Although you can sometimes get usable results photographing real objects as long as they’re monochrome and you carefully control the direction of the light.)
Use the Photo presets (or in manual mode use the “convert to dots” setting) for printing photos.
Super tips, thanks Had read as much about the 3d engrave, wanted to try something anyway Will try a height map somewhere coming week. However our own area (being mostly flat at -1m above (or below?) sealevel will be pretty boring
Will try a height map somewhere coming week. However our own area (being mostly flat at -1m above (or below?) sealevel will be pretty boring 
