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I picture a hardware device that acts similar to a print server being required. Proprietary and most likely pricey. Not open source.
I'm curious if anyone knows who sells the little 1hp red dust collector that Harbor Freight no longer carries. After almost 10 years and the same amount of brush replacements, my commutator is...
I agree.
The GFs hardware buffer contains the motion planning (performed in the cloud) which the onboard motion controller then does it's thing. The "uP" is the motion controller.
Product can not even be created if the machine is not there to create it. Whatever GF is sloooooowly delivering, it is only part of the dream crushing.
If I was trying to create a gift for my grandmother and couldn't, I'd still be ticked off. Business or no business, having a piece of equipment unnessesarily tied to the cloud is looking for trouble.
My girlfriend is an established artist showing in respected galleries. Typical artist/gallery relationship is 50/50. So wherever this conversation goes, the artist is getting half of the selling...
Correct me if I'm wrong but Kev's process that he just described is in fact a screen capture which is being printed via the print driver.
I get your point but my brain doesn't even go down the road of a resampled screen capture. If it can be vectorized, I vectorize it. Otherwise, it's high resolution that's output at 100% scale factor.
The problem with this is that it is printing what you see at the screen resolution, not high resolution.
You're a smart guy and know 2 wrongs don't make a right.
Cheers
The Glowforge marketing team would be proud of your wordsmithing!
"Almost" infers "close to." You should instead say "barely." Even 10 times as many formats is nowhere near the thousands of file formats out there.
You're grabbing at straws here. At some point...
"Any" is a big word to use. I work with 10 times those file formats and none will "print" to a laser.
No set-up? When exactly does one set speed/power/frequency and all the other idiosyncrasies...
...or put an Arduino in it and call it done. X,Y motion control does not need the cloud.
The idea of a desktop waterjet (Wazer) was interesting to me until I noticed cloud processing. Build the hardware, put a FANUC controller in it, and call it done.
I used a Cardinal lacquer based aerosol paint that bites well and hasn't given me any problems in the past. I've also used Krylon Fusion which did what it needed to do. Oh, I lay down a few light,...
I could have used black/white plastic but since engraving is not what I do for a living, I didn't have any floating around. Acrylic on the other hand...
I know the color fill is not good enough for a customer but it was quick to make and gets the job done for internal purposes. This little control panel is a PCB sandwiched between 2 layers of acrylic...
They better speed that up so they can sell more of their consumables. I'm getting ADD just watching this.
You may need to think through your connectivity strategy. It sounds like you are trying to get away from Parallels due to issues and use Illustrator running native on the Mac. You may still need...
Since there is no "hairline" option in Illustrator, just stroke it at .001" to achieve the same goal.
In my opinion, a CNC and a laser might be close if cutting a very thin substrate. After that, the CNC takes over by a mile because the kerf of the laser is not straight but hourglass shaped.
I agree. If this is the case, it probably stems from esthetics and not experience.
Epilogs, at least my Mini, do not use cones for air assist. They use tubes that are off to the side of the beam and blow air at an angle across the beam. Epilogs position the tube so it blows from...