Related to Discussion: 0.5" focus range not achievable

[palmercr]

@dan

In any case, the Glowforge lens can move sufficiently to place that focal point close enough to the surface of material to cut (up to 0.25") or engrave (up to 0.5"). Since it can focus sufficiently to accomplish its goal - yes.

So 0.1" out of focus has no effect then? I don’t understand how that can be the case when support are constantly telling people PG has to be absolutely flat to cut properly with PG settings.

@AhnoldZ

Where are the units on your axes man! And what’s with the 8 zeros after the decimal point on what should just be integers?!

As Scott said that was just part of a discussion and was built from incorrect data. This is what the motor actually does.

It does nothing at all between 0.4" and 0.5", so it has a range of 0.4" where it can focus.