Marking Success on 1/8" Stainless Steel and 3D Engrave Questions

[henryhbk]

@Pwc-phil

I’m not trying to be dense… but if I remove the tray and place say, a 3/4"t. piece of walnut there… how will i know the distance that it’s top is from the head, or what setting to use for focus height? Does the system ping and return an exact distance somewhere within the interface? What is the protocol everyone understands for for the focus height setting? …for engrave? …for cut? etc…?

I made a nice tutorial on this exact topic in the tutorials set:

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…