My Glowforge was working fine yesterday. This morning I turned it on the lid lights came on, heard the first two sounds it makes on startup. Then nothing. The gantry and laser head stay in the parked position, upper left. After several minutes the machine goes into standby where the lights dim. I have powered off and on 4 times but get the same sequence of events. I cannot see anything loose, etc. With the machine powered off I can manually move the gantry and laser head through their full range.
I am looking for advice on what is wrong and what I can do to fix it? Help advice will be happily accepted.
What is the machine’s status showing in the top right corner of the Glowforge app? Where it’s getting stuck (offline, focusing, centering, homing, scanning) is important to figuring out what’s going on.
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With the power off, I would move the print head directly under the camera and then turn the power back on. This might help. Good luck. Don’t move the head with the power on.
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I had the exact same issue last week - after a couple of hours of rebooting all thing things I ended up redoing the wifi setup process and it came right back to life. Maybe give that a try?
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which sounds are these exactly?
The problem with my Glowforge not initializing has fixed itself, at least temporarily. Today I powered it up and it went through all the startup steps without a hitch. I did nothing to it, my wifi connection, or my computer. The only thing was keep myself busy for 3 days doing other things.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I did learn that a Glowforge needs a wifi connection to complete its startup, not just when it is printing a design.
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Just a small correction to this; it only needs wifi to start up and send your design to the cloud and back to begin the print. Once the print has begun, it is no longer wifi dependent.
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one thing that might be a variable is the light entering the unit… Mine sits directly under the ceiling light. if it is acting wonky I just turn the light off and presto, it goes. the ambient light coming through the window varies a lot, I figure that extra bit from the light and reflections from the incoming light are just enough to be screwy.
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… and once the design is uploaded to the UI, you don’t need internet until you go to print - or want to add premium clipart and text.
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