Laser is not firing, machine stops

[Jules]

How thick is the board, exactly?
(You might need to measure it with calipers, because half an inch thick is too thick for the machine to focus on without removing the crumb tray and propping the board up on something that is one inch tall, to bring it into the correct range.)

There are some discussions on engraving without the crumb tray here:

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

Here’s a look at it. [tray%20height]

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…

Note: On that second one, the laser will determine the height for you if you bring the top surface into the correct range…you can just read it for understanding.