Publish or Perish D6 Die

[dwardio]

@ca_worth

where do you get the dice?

These were sourced on Amazon: http://a.co/ceqOmch

I specifically went with the 25mm (1 inch) dice for increased visability and “real estate” for engraving. They are cheaper in bulk, but as this was an initial test for a limited run, I thought it was a reasonable deal.

Btw, since these are > 0.5", the crumb tray must be removed, so there’s a bit of math needed to get the engraving face back into the focus zone as well as setting the exact focus distance. It took a few ceramic tiles I had handy to shim the die up for proper focus.

In case folks haven’t seen it, Henry did a fantastic writeup of the calculation / shimming process not too long ago:

Tutorial: How to cut without the Crumb Tray (Honeycomb)

Tutorial: How to cut objects too thick to have the honeycomb in place The GlowForge has a maximum material thickness it can cut through, but there is a maximum thickness you can even put on the honeycomb (crumb tray) even if you are surface engraving as the laser has a limited focus range of 0.01" - 0.4" *** above the surface of the honeycomb at the time of this tutorial. But let’s say you wanted to engrave something thicker that fits quite nicely inside the GlowForge but not with the crumb tray…

I wanted a visual cheat sheet as a quick reminder why the magic number is 1.4", so threw this together:

Yes, the PRU focus range seems to be ~0.4", but I’m planning for the future…