I know it will de-focus the beam right at the surface but I’m not sure exactly what the GF is doing.To put it another way, after seeing how sharp an image is that was scanned on the GF I’m not sure what exactly is going on for the focus at the top of the material. I’ve been assuming that the camera focusing on the material, as it does before every print, is verifying that the material is at least in bounds of the PG setting for that material. Since I’ve yet to have the GF recognize any material from the QR code though I really don’t know.
I’ll make it a point to try the calipers on it before the next run. I haven’t got to the point you’re at with doing inlays, etc. I’m still fumbling thru the interface and playing with stuff more on the design side.
I’m interested to see what @jamesdhatch gets in his calibration template tests. I’m not quite there yet
If you don’t get a clear image ever and never had the QR code recognized, there may be a problem with the lid focus for sure. If you aren’t doing precise camera alignment it’s not that big of deal and since you can manually enter material, that helps. Would be interested in why the lid camera isn’t focused. In the end seeing the material on the bed clearly is a big plus. Hope they get it sorted out.
There ruler is unmasked so to speak. Regular MDF finish.
Doesn’t hold the light engrave well (look at the longer lines on graduations and the outer edge) but this looks like it will be good to test any cut concepts and should also be useful for making drawer bottoms
Might add, the cheaper, unfinished Draftboard would be a better choice for something to be painted. Using the Proofgrade plywoods or hardwoods is more expensive and the finish doesn’t lend itself well to paint.
A thin strong unfinished MDF material was used for my first project. Since the grain of the wood is unimportant the Draftboard would have been perfect.
You cannot, per url, disable cache as the server is the one to say whether an item is likely to change in the near future or not.
However, chrome does let you completely disable caching in some circumstances, as well as provide a menu when you right-click on the refresh page which gives you ‘hard reload’ and ‘clear cache and hard reload’ options so that you don’t have to wipe out your entire web cache to refresh a single page without cache.
For starters, I believe the hard reload options are available as soon as you right-click something and pick ‘inspect’ which opens the dev tools. If not, then you might have to do the other part which is finding the option for ‘disable cache when dev tools are open’ described at https://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-how-to-completely-disable-cache
EDIT: I should note that caching significantly reduces server load and page load times, so DevOps teams do not generally want you browsing the web without it. But if the server has changed items on you prior to the expiration date previously sent down by the server, then developers will be happy to have you not use your cache for one load so that they don’t hear about bugs that only arise when using version A of one file to process version B of another.
In planning for a go-live, the server could set expiration on all items as the same minute go-live is planned, rather than a simple ‘7 days out.’ After go live, the server could bump it back to 7 days from load time.
Will it let you go to thousandths of an inch? Mine kept resetting to hundredths when I tried to set it for 110 lb cardstock (wouldn’t let me type .009. ?
.01" is the lowest the UI will accept for the material thickness and focus for some unknown reason. However, once you get above that the increments can be changed in thousandths. For example, you can input 0.011"
