There, there… Glowforge will take away all of your troubles now.
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Congratulations!
Sorry for the delay in responding to this post, it’s been just crazy for me the past week between work, purchasing a new workshop and a new to me used 1966 F250 in Denver (restoration project).
I was excited to see your first post with the GF and your creations. I was expecting to see unique and wonderful things from you and you did not disappoint.
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Vanished instantly.
Been a long time since I felt like a child again on Christmas morning!
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Thank you!
Have fun with the restoration 
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I knew you were in for a prerelease. You are an artist of many mediums and you have the heart of an engineer. Congratulations. Your first prints are stunners
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Thank you! 
I may have the heart of an engineer, but it’s too bad I don’t have the education that goes along with it! (I do have the scars that attest to that. School of hard knocks. 
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The machine did all the work, I’m just fumbling my way around. Good that the system is intuitive! 
Greatly eases my introduction into a tech new to me!
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I have to agree on both counts! 
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Also really good that there are so many here that stand ready to help! The value of that can’t be overstated.
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You’d be an honor student in my classes, as far as I’m concerned!
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Thank you, that’s very kind.
I dropped out of school in the 10th grade because joining the Navy, seeing the world and working on jets sounded much more appealing than going back to school. I wasn’t smart enough to realize you never get out of school, it’s just the classroom that changes.
Dad died when I was one, and my Mother - God knows she tried, but that woman had her hands full with me. Never bothered me that I chose that path until I toured the Colorado School of Mines with my Son, then it hit me. That’s where I belonged all those years ago. I told him "If you can get into this school, and get through it, you will have a downhill swing on a career. He showed Dad how it’s done.
Actually @dan taught me a new word here - autodidact. Man, that sounds a lot better than high school drop out!
What subject(s) do you teach Scott?
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Structural and mechanical engineering topics mainly. Also mechatronics at an entry level (called a “discovery course” where I learn at the same time as my students!). Now that I’m retired, I only teach senior capstone design courses, where industry sponsors pose problems important to them, and teams of 3-4 seniors solve the problems while I look over their shoulders as a faculty advisor.
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What a great approach to teaching, a challenge. “See if you can find a solution.” Good prep for life, and for the teacher not the same old cut and dried curriculum. I bet you enjoyed that, watching those wheels turn. 
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Yes, they get such a tremendous sense of accomplishment and self confidence as engineers. It’s a very rewarding course to teach, although “teaching” is really more like simply nudging them one way or another if I think they are straying from a productive path.
School of Mines is a great school. I just visited last summer while vacationing in Golden. Congratulations to your son on his success there!
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OK Morgan, I have fumbled around enough now to have a fundamental grasp of the machine and the UI. 
If you are willing to make the drive just to push that button, I have a couple of pieces of 20x12 1/8" Proofgrade maple with your name on them!
If it’s not too much trouble, please do bring the Cintique so I can see how you use it.
Bring a few files you would like to print in that maple, and if the Leather Woman has an idea she would like to try, we can learn that together!
I recommend a scrap too so we can dial that material in.
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It will scan directly from a tablet! Holy rusted metal Batman!
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