markwal
December 10, 2017, 12:59am
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The jig takes advantage of the fact that relative placement of objects in your design are reproduced precisely, it’s only the picture from inside the Glowforge that can’t be trusted. There are examples in the forum, a good one is here:
I’ve been thinking about the whole alignment thing but haven’t gotten to the point where I had something to test. I won an attendance prize the other day at a luncheon and came home with a beautiful stationery desk set, pastel colors, with 12 pencils that had sayings on them. They are round.
Here is what they ended up looking like:
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Here’s how I got there:
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I cut a flat piece of cardboard that had two factory edges which I used as the main reference, then used by acrylic frami…
Kentucky windage is too fiddly for me, but some use it:
Here is the method I use to compensate for the slight offset I currently experience with object placement. This method will probably be obsolete when precision alignment is available but in the meantime it can help if you want exact (or at least extremely close) placement of artwork on the bed.
Using this file: [image]
Upload it to the GFUI. Set up a score.
Attach a piece of graph paper (here I’m using 1 inch grid divided into tenths) to a piece of card stock and measure the thickness w…