I’ve used jigs to successfully do multiples of objects. I had work arounds to reuse a jig once it was taken out of the Glowfoge, but more often than not I would just toss them or cut a new one.
With Snapmark, I will be able to reuse the jigs. I have boxes of 4 inch tiles. They are pretty low hanging fruit, but very versa"tile"! So my first snapmark was a jig for a 4" tile.
The instructions by Glowforge were pretty clear, but understandable more from having watched @cynd11 use the Snapmark feature. I have the fiducials in the file with the square cutout. Now I can snap that image either with a graphic already placed or adding to the workspace. Definitely speeds up doing a one off tile.
A little more challenging was making a jig for engraving on a glass cigar tube.
I 3D printed a jig to position the tube surface about 1/4" above the tray height. Then I made a cardboard box, open on the bottom, to place in the bed after having removed the crumb tray. It is just slightly higher than the crumb tray height. This allows the fiducials to be in the focus range of the head camera and also assist in masking the metal bed bottom. It has a cutout to put the tube jig in.
With all the Harry Potter magic, I figured something like this would be a neat little gift. I couldn’t think of anything more interesting as a name. I guess it depends upon the Grandma, what the dust actually is. Leaves a lot for speculation.
I’m a grandma, and I have a lot of dust (especially now that Hubs is in charge of housekeeping for a while), but I don’t think any of it is magic.
Actually most of it (what’s under the bed, anyway) is pieces of us and stars. I guess that’s kind of magical, if you think about it. Robert Fulghum wrote a nice little essay on that in one of his books one time.
That tube holder looks like you 3D printed it. What about printing another with a space to engrave the snapmarks, or a little shelf to hold a piece of draftboard you could glue to it for the snapmark engrave if they don’t register well when burned into the 3D material. You could elevate them a little so in the end, they’re parallel with the top of the tube, which would eliminate needed to change the focus height after calibration. Just a thought.
It gets confusing when Glowforge uses the term incorrectly. Your Glowforge is a laser cutter and not at all a 3D printer. It removes material to create where a 3D printer adds material to create. Many folks here have both. I’m not one of 'em yet, but I’ve been tempted for years. I just haven’t found the perfect one for me yet.
