I arrived at the same thought destination too! Lol. I think because I thought it was stored in the cloud… which I had a hard time explaining to my Mom so I told her it was magic…
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This was my assumption as well. I figured that since we can take a picture, and then repeat it multiple times (making copies), that it had to be stored somewhere. I was also kind of hoping that a history of the jobs that we’ve run would have been saved, so I can go back later and look up what speed and power I used on Job number 32 and I had dutifully saved all the information so I know that the last time I worked with Purpleheart it worked best with 30% speed and 85% power.
I know that is also supposed to go in a “little black book” of laser jobs, but I forget sometimes to do similar things with my woodworking, so an automatic system would be quite useful.
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Ideally we have the same capacity on this laser as on a few others, where you can embed text in the file itself which will provide you the cut/speed information for each pass.
Since the whole point of the Glowforge is to make anythign we create into an engraving easily, it won’t work quite as seamless as my current laser (any non-vector text is ignored, and so you leave your cut info anywhere you want to), but maybe we can put information outside of the print area.
Having all prior jobs auto-recorded is often more nightmare than value for me. Because I will load a file, see something wrong, modify the original and re-save with the same file name, re-load the file… and now I have two prior jobs with exactly the same name. Ideally I always want the most recent version, but there have been cases where that wasn’t true.
Repeat previous job… often useful, but often only in the short term (and so can store in browser cache instead of on machine or in cloud).
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For SVG files, comments are an explicit part of the format. Don’t know if that’s actually useful here.
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