My bad dunno why i talked about Scores where you talked about kerf haha.
But scores test is something i’d like to add as well !
Aaaanyways ! The kerf testing is clever !
I added it. I removed the “4mm straight line flex cut” to give room to the circle kerf tester as it’s way more important in my opinion. I kept the flex testing but am not really convinced about there usefulness…
Although, there now is some duplicates with the circle kerf test. The 7, 6, 5 and 4mm ones are both in the vertical tester and in the matrix. I like the wider range of the vertical ones as well as the squares, but also love the matrix that offers more granularity.
Don’t know what to do yet about this so i keep it as is for now but let me know if you have better ideas
Here is a ZIP with everything in it (i forgot the gradient PNG file on my prev post) material_tester.zip (1.6 MB)
Is there a video anyone has made to show how the tester template is organized into its seperate jobs for the glowforge to cut/engrave/score/ext. I have only done a single type of job each item I have done. I am a newbie in the glowforge world and am trying to learn all i can. I know there is a lot I dont know yet but I am loving it so far.
There are basically only four variables. Cutting one pass with full power leaves only 2 variables with each species of wood, no matter what the job it is what cutting speed is best for that species of wood that is the main concern, so a set of tests per species kept as a reference can be used for any job and suggest alternatives as well,
I use this design as it uses the least amount of wood but it can be more obscure to figure out, larger test systems are more “in your face” but also use more wood. You can pick the style you are comfortable with and as you use more types of wood build a larger reference set and eventually barely need to refer to it.
I appreciate this a ton! I’m new to a lot of this but trying to teach it to middle schoolers. This will help a great deal! Any other tips are welcome. I have this laser and a Ruida laser as well.
Thanks for providing the file, but i’m having a problem. I tried to upload the .svg file, but the Glowforge web software gives me an error about linked images: “The design has linked images. The linked images have been removed. To print images, you can use design software to embed the images when you save the file.”
Again guys sorry for the newbie question… I’ve had my glow Forge for about a month and a half and I’ve been cutting out and engraving many different materials. I want to thank you in the community for providing this test file OK the stupid newbie question do I have to manually go in and set all the different parameters for all the different objects. And if so… Gosh don’t you wish you could save a file with all of its parameters embedded in that file.
If you save the file by exiting out to the Dashboard and then open the file from the Dashboard, the parameters are saved with the file. Be very careful with the thicknesses of the materials though, that can cause fires if you are going from thick to thin.
The labelled sizes don’t seem to fit the actual sizes at all. Labelled size is 10mm, but square is actually 7.49mm. Did the whole image get scaled accidentally?
I checked and it seems good to me
It’s not “perfect sizes” as i get some floating point numbers probably due to the SVG’s pixel<->mm conversion but it’s close to the labelled value.
Did you get the latest version of the file ?
What software do you use to open the file ? I’m using latest Illustrator.
Have you tried printing it and measuring the result ?
Can someone explain the purpose of each section? I understand I need to find my initial cut through setting first and then manually change the percentages on each step. For some reason all of the dots are just not connecting. For example, why would having all those different sized squares and circles be helpful? What variable is the red graduation bar vs the circle graduation bar showing?
