Why is the browser alignment so far off of the scanned picture at the moment? Was working fine yesterday and now it’s out about 1 cm off from the image… not only that, it’s overlapping items that are clearly separated on the layout… hence wasting material!!
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I am not experiencing this issue. Can you share a screenshot/photo?
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Alas, I did not take a screenshot and threw the ruined parts away… 
I will try again tomorrow, but been lasering fine all day and now a wasted sheet… I’ve had this happen a couple times at the far right of the bed but this time on the left where it clearly didn’t start the first object anywhere near the right starting point… I saw in the discord some Aura users were having issues too, wondered whether there’s a server error or something?
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Your print head got momentarily stuck on the rail while moving at some point, which offsets everything it does after that point, as it doesn’t know it got stuck. It only homes itself at startup, so the fix for this is to clean the rails and power cycle the machine. It’s not a software error at all. There are always other Aura users having this issue in Discord because it happens all the time if you’re not religious about wiping down the rails between jobs (or even part way through long jobs). The motor that moves the head around can’t overcome even a tiny bit of friction.
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Thanks for the quick reply, folks on this forum are always so nice!! I turned it on this morning and all was well again, but I also took some time to give the old beast a clean too…I will try and remember to do that more often (hey Glowforge, how about a reminder on the web app after a certain number of hours lasering??).
Cheers,
Nick
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Pretty much confirms the head was bumped at some point.
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Glowforge will give you a reminder every time you forget by losing the zero point. Before that, it did not know you needed a reminder.
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That would be of no use whatsoever. It has no idea how much debris is being created by whatever material you are using. If I cut something really nasty, I might go ahead and clean it after just one large print - full-bed engraves of certain materials can do that. Just cutting acrylic or true veneer-only plywood, or some hardwoods, generate virtually no debris at all.
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I don’t think a reminder on the app is a waste at all, some folks might not even realize it’s necessary (I’d certainly forgot…)… could get annoying after a while though I suppose.
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On reflection, I guess my machine does have a built-in reminder. As soon as cuts on the right side of the bed aren’t as crisp as those on the left, it’s time to clean it…
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