Weekly Highlights for the week of 04-DEC-16

[jacobturner]

These are the posts made by users (not official staff) which are worth highlighting:

THE 3D Engrave

I know this is a tumultuous time, but Ive been waiting to see this since the glowforge was announced. Im sure anyone who read the email has seen it, but its easy to get lost in all the chaos of the delay, and I’m too excited not to post about it. In light of that I wanted to make a thread to talk about HOW AMAZING this 3d engrave looks! [image] I dont doubt that you have seen me be on dan and crew’s butt about the 3d engrave function. Well, they knocked it out of the park! I cant believe how …

Speculation on the Expansion Port

With all the negativity right now, I want to focus on some of the positive. Namely, the Expansion port. I definitely squeed when I read about it! They have said “anything from an inkjet printer cartridge to a 3D extruder”. So… What do people think? What do you want as an option for the Expansion port?

3D Engrave Possibility

Here is something I made a longtime ago on my CNC using a depth map and CAM software(I think it was mastercam ART) dark areas are the thickest. I think the 3D engrave would do this with ease! [image] Got the idea from old porcelain lamp shades. Here it is not back lit, kind of creepy [image] It was machined from 1/4 white acrylic, step over was maybe .005.