I saw a few weeks back that they were emailing notification to the buyers about shipping in near future. I'll take back the call of vapor ware now. But I think there will be a lot of unhappy folks very soon. Flat goods only, and I'll not say slow engraving, I'll say extremely excruciatingly slow engraving. 9 minutes? Wow. Maybe there wont be any fires after all!
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Jet JWS18, bandsaw Carbide Create CNC, RIA 22TCM 1911s and others
9 minutes?
A few days ago I made a video. I was going to post it up here, partly to show why I still swear by Casmate, and partly to toot my horn a bit -- but haven't yet... I start with a customer supplied color jpg graphic, which I ran thru Corel Paint to remove some colors, exported the result as a TIF file, changed computers, loaded up Casmate, imported the TIF to Casmate, vectorized it, exported the finished vector file as a DXF, changed computers again, imported the DXF into Corel, resized it to fit a 3 x 1-1/2" or so piece of white Rowmark, sent it to the LS900, engraved it, and then showed it to the camera... The entire video is exactly 5 minutes long. The reason I haven't posted it up is because I figure I can cut it down to closer to 4 minutes
I've got nothing against Glowforge, but I'm sure glad I'll never need one!
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
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All the "It's so hard to use conventional software/lasers" is just a red herring. With run times like 9 minutes on that small graphic, the only way all that technology is helpful is if you are doing 1. If I had to do 10 of them, that's 90 minutes. 90 minutes is about 70 minutes more than it would take most any other laser. Saving 70 minutes on a 10 piece job, would easily convince me to learn how to use "Autotrace" in Illustrator or Corel. Once you learn it, then you have that skill for all the jobs in the future. However, with the GF, you'll always have the painfully slow engraver. I can't believe that engraving took 9 minutes. That's like performance of a 10W laser.
They are still on track to do what I suspected. They'll come out, people like the "I make things" guy will say how awesome it is, they'll sell way more in the months to come than they did at the start up, they'll get great press (because that's all the press they ever seem to get, no matter what), then Amazon or some big player will buy them.
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And sneaked in the latest update is another delay, so rather than end of July it is now end of October
You did what !
I've been hearing "glowing" reviews on the facebook groups. But I think it's more the "I finally got my new toy and it does something" feeling.
I am very curious to know how they don't require exhuast (other than a small fan apparently?) for anything. And how is the tube "cooled"? I can't imagine the technology matches the traditional US machines air cooling.
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"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
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And I don't know if you noticed (for you guys that watched that 'review'), it was roughly 5 minutes (at least as video flipped to next scene) to UPLOAD to their server! I'll make the assumption it downloads as it engraves.
No, no fire, no exhaust, no cooling. it could be convection cooling of a simple water bath running that slow!
Woodworking, Old Tools and Shooting
Ray Fine RF-1390 Laser Ray Fine 20watt Fiber Laser
SFX 50 Watt Fiber Laser
PM2000, Delta BS, Delta sander, Powermatic 50 jointer,
Powermatic 100-12 planer, Rockwell 15-126 radial drill press
Rockwell 46-450 lathe, and 2 Walker Turner RA1100 radial saws
Jet JWS18, bandsaw Carbide Create CNC, RIA 22TCM 1911s and others
I have this acute visual in my head right now; the GF engineering team gathered 'round a laptop, reading the latest comments from the various engraver's forums, and upon reading the latest contributions from The Creek group, one of engineers stands up, crinkles his forehead, and says quietly...
Cooling?
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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
I can just about guarantee that they do read this Forum and CNC Zone.
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