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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by Palomides on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:38PM (#10692064)
not having an automated/instant quote system totally kills my interest in this; compare with ponoko or big blue saw, upload a design and it will very easily give exact prices for your design on various materials.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:36PM (#10692494)
Understood and well noted. If i'm not mistaken though, those services have their own software and some very specific guidelines to follow.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by beardicus on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:57AM (#10696042)
You mean their own design software? You are mistaken. Ponoko provides templates of their default material sizes, and that's about all that's required. Oh, you also need to use the correct color path to indicate between engrave and cut passes.

Either way, clearly you're already calculating this value for billing, no? Or are you just using laser run-time for the bill, and estimating that based on the user's guesstimated path length?

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