Chris is right, this really doesn’t seem to come up often. But it does happen.
To start with what seems to be an official response on how to square your gantry (remove the space after the ‘.com’, there seems to be a problem with discourse this morning)
glowforge.com /support/topic/troubleshooting/perfect-squares
Here’s a topic that depends on total squareness to work, so we know it is achievable.
Lately I’ve been playing with using PG wood inset cuts with different wood and clear acrylic. I’ve been using the Inkscape Inset/Outset path command with a setting of .001in. With that tolerance I’ve gotten a really good snap fit without glue. It’s really important however to take the cone shape of the beam into account and mirror the design. In this example the red cut (outset .001in) is setup to be flipped and placed into the blue cut (inset .001in) from the top…
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…this ended up …
Here’s one where a wire was the problem:
Just got my Glowforge Pro last week. After being pretty happy with the small cuts I made, (the ruler and plague). I decided to make a frame jig for another project i am working on.
However it turns out that the corners are not square.
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You can see the gaps between the square and the baltic birch frame I cut. This was my brace.svg file cut about 9PM eastern yesterday.
The material was flat, the unit is on a flat level sur…
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