Glowforge release

[Scott Shepherd]

Bill, the good news is the one on the right only took 1 hour and 3 minutes to run. Not kidding, that's what it took. Obviously there's something going on wrong, but I'm not sure I'd let any machine run 1 hour and 3 minutes on something like that before stopping it and trying to figure out the problem.

[John Lifer]

Hes better heavy on the materials supply side. Hasn't come out and said only his proof grade will work, but I see it coming...no one with any brains will purchase the company.... But that really doesn't mean anything anymore.

[Bill George]

The people who founded the company are successful in other ventures but they were mislead on the Glow Forge.

[Keith Outten]

Gentlemen,

I should remind all of you that you are legally responsible for any comment you make here. Make sure you can prove any statement you make that is detrimental towards a person, company or product. Its very difficult to prove a statement that condemns any product as being JUNK.

Be careful....

[Bill George]

The latest GF forum posting has complaints that the machine will not even start to work unless its around 75 degrees in the room or below. Over 80 nothing happens. So the advice is use a window A/C unit to blow directly on the unit.

[Scott Shepherd]

Apparently, this is what thinking outside the box and revolutionizing the laser engraving industry looks like in action....



If that's easier and faster than anything we do now, then I must be doing something wrong. Wow....that was painful and frustrating to watch the guy struggle with the software by no fault of his own. And the speed at which it engraved? You are kidding me right?

[Doug Griffith]

Apparently, this is what thinking outside the box and revolutionizing the laser engraving industry looks like in action....



If that's easier and faster than anything we do now, then I must be doing something wrong. Wow....that was painful and frustrating to watch the guy struggle with the software by no fault of his own. And the speed at which it engraved? You are kidding me right?

They better speed that up so they can sell more of their consumables. I'm getting ADD just watching this.

[John Lifer]

One little Piggy, Two Little Piggies,,,,,,,,,,
Sorry, just had to do it!

[John Noell]

...And the speed at which it engraved? You are kidding me right?

Well yeah, but the vector speed was, uhhh, was, uhh, uhh, ooops sorry, I must have fallen asleep. What happened? Did it finish?

[Bill George]

There is no way I could watch all 34 minutes of that. OMG when are people going to wake up,.... maybe after a video or two.

[Scott Shepherd]

But Bill, don't you remember, laser engraving and software used to run modern day lasers is just so complex and time consuming to use. People spend a lot of time creating files when they could just draw it with a marker and go. Oh wait, it's not quite that easy.....apparently you need to take your hand drawn image into the software and manipulate it until it's ready to use.....not dissimilar to a hand drawn sketch in Illustrator or CorelDraw. I laughed when the guy said something about that feature being a gimmick because it you really wanted something done well, you'd draw it properly in software Made me laugh.

I suspect this video won't be up long. GF videos seem to disappear from YouTube, mysteriously

[Dave Sheldrake]

I suspect this video won't be up long. GF videos seem to disappear from YouTube, mysteriously

guess what...^^^^^^ video gone...no surprise there

Was talking to a guy earlier who did some cutting on his GF, the edge quality looks aweful, even on 3mm ply it's really black and burned,3mm ply cuts almost white on any of mine , I'd think they are overpowering something....oh....the story about the tubes being RECI? they aren't. they are YongLi and use a funky alcohol based coolant (similar to the stuff I use in my industrial's) it's expensive to replace and stinks when it leaks...

[Michael Henriksen]

I can still watch the video.

[Matt McCoy]

guess what...^^^^^^ video gone...no surprise there

Was talking to a guy earlier who did some cutting on his GF, the edge quality looks aweful, even on 3mm ply it's really black and burned,3mm ply cuts almost white on any of mine , I'd think they are overpowering something....oh....the story about the tubes being RECI? they aren't. they are YongLi and use a funky alcohol based coolant (similar to the stuff I use in my industrial's) it's expensive to replace and stinks when it leaks...

Here's the direct link to the video.

https://youtu.be/iFSd0Hz7O1Y

[Dave Sheldrake]

Here's the direct link to the video.

https://youtu.be/iFSd0Hz7O1Y

cheers Matt and Mike