Manual laser calibration questions (1.6mw)

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Snapmaker should have really included a red dot pointer for positioning your work, like many other laser manufactures do.

Could always forgo and ignore the annoyance of jogging the laser around to line it up and use math and repeatable setups.

Accurate, Repeatable Laser Guide

My rotary guide (found here) seemed to be well received, so I’m going to move onto the laser. This guide will be a bit shorter, as it’s not too involved, but is mostly to help increase repeatability, accuracy, and quality of your laser projects. Likely any machinist will say a repeatable, accurate origin is a key component in quality production. You gotta know exactly where you start to know where you’re gonna end right? I know the snapmaker method is just eyeball it, be it with a mark and lini…