Snapmark Jigs

I’ve been a Snapmarks beta user since the beginning, and it’s great that they are finally rolling this feature out to everyone. I thought I’d share some of my jigs to help people get started. I don’t use snapmarks very often, but it’s one of the best features available when you need it. I wouldn’t buy another Glowforge without it. I generally use draftboard to make my jigs, but anything where the camera can read the registration bugs will work.

4 Pencil Jig
4 Pencil Jig_snapmarks

4" Coaster Jig
4x4 Coasters_snapmarks

Apple Watch Band Long
apple watch band long_snapmarks

2.5" Circular Bottle Opener
2.5 Circular Bottle Opener_snapmarks

Amazon 7.9"x5.5" Bamboo Cutting Board
7.9x5.5 Amazon Bamboo_snapmarks

8"x12" Amazon Bamboo Cutting Boards
8x12 bamboo_snapmarks

9"x12" Tile
9x12 tile_snapmarks

IKEA Aptitlig 9.6"x6" Cutting Board
IKEA Aptitlig 9.6x6 Bamboo_snapmarks

IKEA RÖRT Spoon
IKEA RÖRT Spoon_snapmarks

Mini Wood Keychain
4x wood keychain bottle opener_snapmarks

Wood Pen Jig
5in wood pen snapmarks jig

4.25"x8.5" Tile
4x8 tile snapmarks

Fitbit Sense
Fit Bit Sense_Snapmarks

3" x 1.75" Wood Bottle Opener
3x 1.75x4 Wood Bottle Opener snapmarks

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nice, thanks. especially the watch band one (for me at least).

someone had shared a wooden dice jig a while back with snapmarks, too.

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Thanks! I have also had Snapmarks since the beginning. My lid camera focus has been so good that I rarely use them.

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I’ve been in both boats. My first production machine had me using snapmarks and any other cheat I could but my current machine is so good that I just hit focus and then place the artwork.

Still like snapmarks when I’m going to make dozens of something.

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Thanx for these, even if you can’t use a specific one they are great examples of what to do.

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Thanks!! these are great.

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I have had Snapmarks, but only used twice, I think. Usually cut a cardboard jig and roll.

When calibration came out … it screwed my Pro up. They reset it, and told me not to calibrate.

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Thank you so much! These are incredibly useful.

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Great share thanks. There is a gold mine there.

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Happy Cakeday! :shortcake:

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They’re a good start for sure!

I think some of these jigs can be optimized a bit — they all use the maximum amount of material to make the jig, and the wooden pen jig in particular has excess dead space between the pens.

Taking the cutting board jig as an example:

Even if we make no other changes to the jig, you simply don’t need the bottom half. This becomes an edge jig at this point:

Pretty much every one of these examples could save a great deal of material on the jig by using edge jig techniques.

I’m also not a fan of full encapsulated jigs like this because if you’re off by even a little bit on your measurement you won’t be able to fit your item in it. Edge — and especially corner — jigs have the advantage there because you just slot the target item into it. In the cases of pencils or watch bands it might make sense to make an encapsulated jig that would prevent the air assist from really getting at your item and moving it around, but I think those things are the exceptions, most items are fairly heavy like a cutting board or a coaster.

So our cutting board jig can become a corner jig, something more like this:

(Complete with my terrible hand drawn snapmark :slight_smile: )

This would save around 90% of the jig material in the process. (And really you could make it even thinner, probably saving another 30% of the small design.)

You could go even smaller but you do need separation on your snap marks so overall width has a lower bound. I forget what the guidance is but the distance between them helps with accuracy and I think there’s actually a minimum. Maybe pubultrastar or someone can help us out here with official guidelines?

Anyway thanks to @pubultrastar for giving us so much inspiration here, snapmarks are some users’ white whale killer feature, I hope snapmarks deliver on their promise.

Side note. I dictated this post and Siri had one really funny mistake: Bob Ultrastar :). It was so good I almost left it in. Hah I just didn’t edit and it came up as vulture star. I must be mumbling this morning lol)

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This is a minimalistic Snapmark ruler:

fiducial_ruler drq version-simple snapmark for placement

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There you go, exactly :slight_smile:

Now that you’ve pointed it out I remember this post, must have been kicking around in my head somewhere. Always count on @takitus for stuff like this.

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Thanks for the share! Excited about snapmarks, just not sure my machine will have it … is there a way to know?

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Happy cake day. I hope you have a great day with friends and family and lots of good eats.:blush:

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I’m sure there is but historically Glowforge doesn’t really give us that info.

It seems like it would be a pretty easy thing to make a simple webpage that takes your serial number and tells you if it’s eligible or not. I guess it depends on how well Glowforge has kept track of these things and how much time and energy they have available to make it.

Seems like it would stop some number of support calls and an untold amount of frustration. Making something like this sounds like a good investment to me but that’s easy for me to say.

Actually heck, just make a document that gives you a way to figure it out. Something like “If your serial number looks like X or Y, then it’s eligible.”

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Right after I made one of these, my machine had to be replaced, and I lost snapmarks. With luck, I will remember it exists at the next appropriate juncture.

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When mine were removed as I had a received a new machine, a simple email to support restored them.

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same.

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what? I just have to ask for it back?

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