Proofgrade materials

[cmreeder]

I’m going to recommend an entire thread, and here is the crux of the answer that was given at that time to a very similar question.

@MikeH, in addition to his response in this thread, here is a quote from Dan that comments on why they don’t plan to make such settings available.

Proofgrade and QRC code

Unfortunately this would be very frustrating for customers and result in a lot of damaged material and incomplete cuts, since material settings are very different from material vendor to vendor. People would reasonably conclude that Glowforge material detection doesn’t work and Glowforge units are unreliable. This is the same reason that we will not make Proofgrade presets available to non-Proofgrade materials; it will lead to poor results, and we will be responsible for it. As noted, it’s …

Then some other comments…

@Jules

Oh it’s no biggie, just what they’ve been hiding all along…

They really live in a hollow tree and the production line is covered with cookie crumbs… Shhhhhhh!

I agree with @dwardio … that was pretty funny.

@printolaser

(Snicker) stomp that fire out!

I’m out of likes. I hate being out of likes when you all are so funny.

@Jules

and @rpegg actually squee’d the other day…

See what I mean?

And this is wildly encouraging to me:

@takitus

Either way, if you decide to cancel based on not wanting to google something that’ll take you an extra 2 minutes, maybe you should just forego using any CNC based machine altogether, because it doesn’t get much easier than this.