Glowforge release

[Keith Outten]

The good news is that all of the people who ask us to engrave some piddly little job for two bucks will probably buy a GF laser so they can do their own engraving AND hopefully engrave for all of their friends.

[Kev Williams]

The good news is that all of the people who ask us to engrave some piddly little job for two bucks will probably buy a GF laser so they can do their own engraving AND hopefully engrave for all of their friends.

- or not -

Many of my customers thru the years have bought their own machines to cut out 'the middleman'. Some do it for convenience, most because they think they'll save money. The logic of paying an employee $30k a year to run a machine to save them the $5k a year they pay ME escapes me. But nearly every customer I've had who bought an engraving machine still has me do their engraving. I do engraving regularly for 2 engraving shops, because they take jobs they can't do, or don't want to do themselves. A few of my customers have their own C02 and fiber lasers who don't use them because they create more waste than profit...

-- and the people with the piddly jobs who call someone with a GF? Good chance they, or the GF owner will be calling YOU..

[Bert Kemp]

if in hours of run time they should last for ever considering for every 5 mins of engraving time they have to rest and cool off for 10 mins there life expectancy will be long LOL mostly waiting for it to cool down

It's where the term CD fits perfectly, anything that contradicts the closed world view of investing $2000+ in something that doesn't appear for 2 years has to be defended in the mind of the defender.

CD causes those folks to see anything negative as an attack on THEM rather than commentary on the subject hence act accordingly.

It actually concerns me that so many people can so easily be taken in with a few keywords and pretty thin promises when anybody with more than 6 months experience can see many of the claims don't stack up.

[Lee DeRaud]

It's where the term CD fits perfectly, anything that contradicts the closed world view of investing $2000+ in something that doesn't appear for 2 years has to be defended in the mind of the defender.

CD causes those folks to see anything negative as an attack on THEM rather than commentary on the subject hence act accordingly.

It actually concerns me that so many people can so easily be taken in with a few keywords and pretty thin promises when anybody with more than 6 months experience can see many of the claims don't stack up.

And if I didn't know you were talking about GF, I'd think you were talking about politics. :-)

[Kev Williams]

now that's funny... but still, GF has a long way to go to catch up to politics-- at least it DOES do SOMETHING...

[Rich Harman]

I thought this was interesting;

This guy lists the Glowforge as one of his tools in the description of his video.

[chase standifer]

I received mine last week. As I have stated before I don't have any laser experience so I can't offer any comparisons on speed. I have only cut out 4 or 5 things, None of which took more than 20 minutes. The 20 min cut was this pencil holder from thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:52386

What I can say is that so far it has lived up to my expectations. I opened the box and had something cut by the machine in less than 20 minutes. Super easy to set up, super intuitive UI. I have cut several things both from the GF catalog and from thingiverse. Importing from thingiverse was simple and all I had to do was set the proper layers from cut to engrave.

I had one issue which involved a project I purchased from their store. The UI did not recognize that the file was loaded into the software for some reason. GF refunded the purchase, fixed the problem and reloaded it into my files within 24 hours. It worked fine the next time.

If anyone has anything they would like me to try I am more than willing to. I don't have an easy way to do video but I'm happy to reply back with the results.

[John Lifer]

I thought this was interesting;

This guy lists the Glowforge as one of his tools in the description of his video.

HA! maybe so but that is a NICE Universal he used for his map !!!! not a GF,.

[Bert Kemp]

I didn't see the description anywhere just the video nice UVLS he uses tho

[Lee DeRaud]

HA! maybe so but that is a NICE Universal he used for his map !!!! not a GF,.

Really?!? I've been assured by GF experts that the ULS software is far too complex to be comprehended by mere mortals.

[Michael Henriksen]

Then it's pure wonder I could engrave this on a Chinese laser.sandkort.jpg

[Doug Fisher]

What waiting for a glowforge will do to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiBWv4Uh494

[Kev Williams]

"...don't know how much longer I can waaait, I think of all the things I can maaaake, I think of all things I can dooooo..."

I wish him well, and hope he makes all those things he's been dreaming of.

I have four of these darn contraptions, and no matter what I put in the things, they only make but one thing...

[Bert Kemp]

I'm now seeing some people reporting NoGlow NoForge, as theres broken tubes, damaged packaging, bent pins and other problems. I think maybe will will see a rise in users here wanting to know how to fix these things

[Dave Sheldrake]

I'm now seeing some people reporting NoGlow NoForge, as theres broken tubes, damaged packaging, bent pins and other problems. I think maybe will will see a rise in users here wanting to know how to fix these things

Tube is a YongLi and even they aren't happy about GF using their own PSU as it's unstable