Having run a handful of jobs on my shiny new laser I’ve come to the realization that details are good things to track. Big surprise there;p So instead of designing a lasered porthole to add to my fence so my cats can view the world from their bubble, I spent some time designing up a way to track jobs with the Google Form survey and sheet output.
I expect this to grow and adapt with use, but for anyone else who suddenly found that they really do own a laser for realsies now, maybe you can also get some use out of this file.
Before posting, I thought I should do a search to see if there was already a thread using this technique, and there is! I think they are different enough that it warrants it’s own thread though;p
Nice work @jamely! Looks awesome and way more comprehensive than my version. A word of caution: now that I’ve been using mine for a couple months I find my self skipping a lot of information and filling it in on the spreadsheet. I can get quite tiring to fill in the same information over and over especially if you are testing cuts.
I use a spreadsheet myself. It’s handy to be able to copy a row and paste it in. Then just change what parameters I’m messing with. I added a “Final” indicator so I can have a pivot view of just the last ones that worked (or worked best). I usually update the spreadsheet after I hit Print and wait for it to prepare the job.
Thanks for the tips @markwarfel ;p I had originally been playing with drafting up a program in C# with Visual Studio, but since I need something right now this makes a nice mock up to figure out how and what I want to keep track of. I like your spreadsheet formulas and will likely incorporate some of them into my own copy of this.
I’ve come to the realization that details are good things to track. Big surprise there;p So instead of designing a lasered porthole to add to my fence so my cats can view the world from their bubble, I spent some time designing up a way to track jobs with the Google Form survey and sheet output.
