A very thin coating of resin, typically, but
a) you’re looking at the far business end of the clip, facing towards ‘ground’,
b) the chances of hitting is a far slimmer profile,
c) if the bulb of resin concerns you, you can clip it off.
In my limited experience with the epilogue on campus during college I saw more material wasted attempting to use scrap and missing your cut by .5" than scrap used successfully. I just always waited to hit print till I was sure that I liked the way I nested everything to use up everything I could
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Theres definitely an art to getting scrap usage right on a laser with no camera. Sometimes its not even worth the trouble lol. But then again I was using a laser that would take 6-8 passes to get through acrylic. bleh
Either way, these are the perfect use for the scrap. Trying to think of a good name. Scrap stands. They look like little guys hanging by their armpits. hmmm
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Roykils.
Kind of like Kilroys 
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Ive got it! Scrappado
Strappado was a form of torture where theyd hang you by your armpits. Couple that with scrap…
Scrappado
its morbid but whatever lol
they do have a laser whizzing past where their head would be
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Acrylic shirts.
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‘stand-offs’
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Sorry, that name is already in use. Try again lol
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Yes! So simple, yet brilliant. nice job!
The one thing I’ve have noticed that I forgot to mention in the OP is that the motion planning is being worked on. Faster button to go times and engraving strategies. i.e. a raster engrave with two verticals that have dead space in-between, what it use to do was go the full span of the distance to engrave.
ASCII description.
Before
... <dead space> ...
... <dead space> ...
... <dead space> ...
... <dead space> ...
<- head travel ->
Now
... <dead space> ...
... <dead space> ...
... <dead space> ...
... <dead space> ...
<ht> <ht>
It does one side then move over to the other. Speeds thing up a bit.
Thanks Team Glowforge!
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Whoa. Cool. I have gotten in the habit of breaking up my raster engraves into small groups to eliminate the dead space travel. Now I won’t have to! 
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That’s fantastic! Such a simple solution. 
hmm… “stand ups”? “pit stands” “raisers” don’t stand-offs typically go “thru” the substrate and then cap off?.. “stand-ins” I got it !!! – “stand-ons” 
. Were they cut out of the scrap acrylic ( it seemed like they could have been placed closer to an edge when cut - to save material…) Still very neat idea/project. And from the topic title… “what a feeling…”
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Dang. You are observant. I so appreciate all the technical things you are doing with the Glowforge. It has been immensely helpful to me.
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These look really useful! I’m sure I will be cutting a ton of them when I get my Glowforge.