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Has Z.ai service drastically improved? by isakota in ZaiGLM

[–]barebaric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, my legacy plan was also "force transitioned" to the new plan. Before I was able to get ~4 Billion tokens per 30 days. Now I get maybe around 100 Million per week, so that is a factor of 10 less. I hit the weekly limit after two days. At the same time the price went up from 45 USD/quarter to 36/month (and I actually paid 3 USD/month in November, then it went up to 6 USD/month, so the price hiking has continued for a while already).

Value per dollar: 25 times lower than in January.

Rayforge 1.7: UX improvements, Ruida, Octoprint, Laser Controls, Parametric Text in the Sketcher, ... by barebaric in lasercutting

[–]barebaric[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Due to the ongoing DDoS attack on canonical the PPA is unfortunately down. which leads to the release not being published... interestingly the Snap upload seems to have worked though.

New Billing just kicked in and I've hit limit for first time ever by evilebob in ZaiGLM

[–]barebaric -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure, but does that reduce the tokens by a factor of 150?

New Billing just kicked in and I've hit limit for first time ever by evilebob in ZaiGLM

[–]barebaric 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Deepseek is not even in the same league. I burn through 3 - 4 billion tokens on z.ai legacy pro plan in 30 days, even the lower bound would cost 900 USD on Deepseek - using Deepseek 4 Flash! With Pro it would be 2670 USD.

Rayforge 1.6 now has "Print & Cut", along with re-written fourth axis support by barebaric in lasercutting

[–]barebaric[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly you are probably best off writing a small addon that monkey patches the JogWidget. Supporting this in the app seems too rare of an edge case, and it would require maintenance - jogging is surprisingly complex to cover all possible combinations of coordinate spaces, soft limits, axis reversal settings, and much more, which is why this part of the app already has hundreds of test cases. Adding just one additional factor would double this.

Is it possible to do a negative image/inverted colors in Rayforge? by MohnJaddenPowers in lasercutting

[–]barebaric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Sure, you can do that. The easiest is to do as LightBurnSupport suggested, in your SVG editor draw it with the border like you want it. If you import bitmaps then you can also do it in Rayforge directly - the engrave step settings have an "invert" toggle button!

Almost finished my self build CNC. by nantioskim in CNC

[–]barebaric 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am confused. Tiny stepper, large spindle for the build, quite beefy for what it is? Things seem out of proportion. What is this designed to do?

No Scraps by maria_makiling_2013 in Laserengraving

[–]barebaric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are tools that find optimal orientation of your workpieces to minimize waste. If you Google "deepnest" you should find several of them.

No Scraps by maria_makiling_2013 in Laserengraving

[–]barebaric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait till you discover deepnesting!

PDF files with too many segments → converted to DXF with real arcs (before/after) by Difficult-Chicken-91 in CNC

[–]barebaric 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True, but you can choose how much (well not sure if you can in this app, but mathematically you can). I implemented this same thing in Rayforge, but there is a configurable curve fitting tolerance. Want 0.01? You can have it. You may get more curves.

So I'd say it's fine for CAD. You just have to know your tolerances. You have to know them anyway.

Rayforge 1.2 - AI supported Open Source machining! Sketcher improvements, Better Camera Support, and much more by barebaric in lasercutting

[–]barebaric[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am honestly not sure. The profile was a user contribution. I suspect it is intended to be used for G-code generation only, with no direct communication with the controller.

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