I wonder what they are rated as?CE
International Basic & Pro units have earned the CE mark, making them legal for importation into EU countries.
I wonder what they are rated as?CE
International Basic & Pro units have earned the CE mark, making them legal for importation into EU countries.
You did what !
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.
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Universal PLS 6.120D 75 watt
MutiCam Apex CNC 4'x8' w 6 bit TC.
EnrRoute 6 Pro 3d software.
Vision 2550 Rotary Engraver.
Old Captain Kirk
while running back to work
was reaching for his trusty phaser...
then his face hit the floor
because next to the door
someone had left their dumb laser
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
CASmate, Corel, Gravostyle
Be interested to see if they are coming in as "Office equipment" rather than "Industrial tools" (something that has been done before and didn't end well)
You did what !
Interesting video from a couple of guys at Tested, who each bought a Glowforge and have been using them for a few months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3317w0_HuX4
Choice quotes:
- "The experience feels like it's in beta still" (~14m)
- "There's definitely this lens warping that they haven't compensated for" (~16m)
- "As long as it's close to the center of that camera, then you can trust it." (~17m)
- "Your actual cuttable area is about an inch in on all sides. ... It makes me think that this is not the full bed that I was promised. What's extra confusing about that is we had an early version of this more than a year ago. We thought that they were going to fix that. That was a limitation then that we understood was something that was going to be solved for the shipping version, and for some reason that hasn't been solved." (~17-18m)
- "If you compare this to a professional laser cutter is is much slower, both in the vector and the raster. ... While you can do rasters up to three hours long, anything bigger than that fails." (~18m)
And yet even after listing all the limitations and downsides, both hosts express that they are quite happy with it and are using it frequently. "It makes laser-cutting accessible."
That's multiple jobs, right? I can't comprehend standing there watching it that long.
I've got a (relatively) puny 25W ULS machine and three hours of raster would cover the full area of the bed, maybe twice, for any substrate it can mark reliably. Longest job I can recall running on it was a little over an hour, but that was a bed-full of insanely complex vector-cuts in 1/4" MDF.
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.
Still waiting to see what this does that's so revolutionary. The whole premise was that it was so easy to use that you didn't need to learn software like Photoshop, Illustrator, or CorelDraw. They say that and then tell people constantly "You need to split the image into smaller pieces and stitch it together". I thought it was supposed to do away with that type of "complexity".
At this point, I still have not seen one single thing (correction, one single positive thing) that it does that turns the market upside down. Not one feature.
Lasers : Trotec Speedy 300 75W, Trotec Speedy 300 80W, Galvo Fiber Laser 20W
Printers : Mimaki UJF-6042 UV Flatbed Printer , HP Designjet L26500 61" Wide Format Latex Printer, Summa S140-T 48" Vinyl Plotter
Router : ShopBot 48" x 96" CNC Router Rotary Engravers : (2) Xenetech XOT 16 x 25 Rotary Engravers
Real name Steve but that name was taken on the forum. Used Middle name. Call me Steve or Scott, doesn't matter.
New owners are receiving their machine and making a project in the first hour of opening the box, without any CAD/CAM experience. The split/stich techinique was a workaround until a firmware update fixed the issue, as far as I know, so you might be propagating bad info.
What market are you referring to?
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CorelDraw X5
10" Miter Saw with slide
10" Table Saw
8" bench mount 5 speed Drill Press
Dremel, 3x21 Belt Sander
Yeah, no one with Epilog's, Trotec's, or Universal's have ever cut anything within an hour of owning it, have they? That's not a valid argument. You are implying that prior to the GF, people simply could not use their machines without countless hours of training in CAD/CAM programs and that's simply not true. I know ULS and Trotec offer programs that you can take a flash drive with an image on it, plug it in and start lasering. They'd been out there for years. I think ULS was doing that about 5 years ago, to be precise.
Yeah, wouldn't want any of us to propagate bad info, but it's okay if GF does it. I see how it works now. They'd been "propagating bad info" for 2 years and you haven't mentioned that about them. Interesting how when someone in this thread says something, it's we're "propagating bad info". That made me laugh out loud.
Lasers : Trotec Speedy 300 75W, Trotec Speedy 300 80W, Galvo Fiber Laser 20W
Printers : Mimaki UJF-6042 UV Flatbed Printer , HP Designjet L26500 61" Wide Format Latex Printer, Summa S140-T 48" Vinyl Plotter
Router : ShopBot 48" x 96" CNC Router Rotary Engravers : (2) Xenetech XOT 16 x 25 Rotary Engravers
Real name Steve but that name was taken on the forum. Used Middle name. Call me Steve or Scott, doesn't matter.
When I got my Chinese laser home I was cutting within 1 hour took 45 minutes to unbox and get the machine plugged in and another 5 minutes to load the software. I did a design of my own not one of the premade designs. cut it out and used it for a proto type for a company that I do a lot of cutting for. So what is the big deal about cutting a job right out of the box. Oh yeah It didn't take hours to set up the WIFI and hours more to calibrate if it ever gets that far.
Mine didn't come in a little box, it came in a tremendously large crate. So it took me a while... But setup? Not very long. But I can't imagine three hour raster on a piece the size of a sheet of paper. ...
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Rockwell 46-450 lathe, and 2 Walker Turner RA1100 radial saws
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