I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. There is a striation in the lower legs where the laser skipped. I’m thinking maybe uploaded files are stitched, if they are over a certain size? The apple is slightly off center too but that was my mistake when I placed the circle of protection over it. You can see that it’s aligned well when it’s cutting.
My method for getting the height in the correct range without the crumb tray is low on math. I marked the garage door with a Sharpie at crumb tray height and then loaded up sheets of draft board until they matched it. It turns out that 10 sheets is exactly the height of the top of the honeycomb. Each sheet is 3/16"; so I removed as many as needed to work. Too much material for good air flow while cutting probably but just fine for engraving!
Thanks! My hubby wrote me an app about 10 years ago in PDL that fills any outline with appollonian gaskets. I’ve always thought it was a stunning fractal! There are generators though, if you’d like to play with it. This one is cool:
settings removed, as requested The most important thing is to have your height completely accurate and your surface as level as possible. My MacBook Air had to be propped up 1/2" on one end to get it level. Good luck and have fun!
@lysandra Just a heads-up about a non-intuitive forum rule: Glowforge doesn’t allow discussion of settings for non-Proofgrade materials in any category besides Beyond the Manual. The whole thread likely will get moved to the Beyond the Manual category if the settings stay here. Alternately, you can create a new post in Beyond the Manual, link it to this one then, edit your settings post in this thread to point to that.
You can see that it’s aligned well when it’s cutting.
