Focal distance matters… Like a lot. Too high and you’re just scorching the surface. Too low and you’re dragging the nozzle through your material like a plow.
Auto Focus takes the math and the guesswork out of it. Push a button, it finds the perfect height, and you start cutting.
No rulers. No feeler gauges. No squinting at a Z-axis readout like it owes you money.
Physical Touch Probe, Old School Reliable
This one’s for the flat stuff. The probe drops down, touches the material, finds the surface, then pulls up to your exact preset focal distance. It touches once, then stays locked. Perfect for sheet goods, acrylic, plywood, and anything else that lies flat. Simple as a handshake.
Laser Distance Sensor, Actively Follows Curves
This is the fancy one. It shoots a laser at the material (no contact), reads the distance dozens of times per second, and adjusts the Z-height while cutting. The head rides the curve like a train on tracks. You don’t touch anything. It just works.
Designed for your Niche
Spend ten minutes dialing in your focus on a test piece, everything looks great, then you load the actual material and… it’s warped. Or domed.
Or slightly tilted because your honeycomb table isn’t perfectly flat. Suddenly your perfect cut is a mess. Auto Focus kills that problem at the root.
Stop fighting your material and start cutting it.
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| Auto Focus (Physical Touch Probe) | Drops down, touches once, locks in. Perfect for flat sheet goods and repeat jobs where speed and simplicity matter most. |
| Active Auto Focus (Distance Sensor) | Actively adjusts on the fly during cutting. Designed for formed plastics, 3D car parts, curved acrylic, and anything else that isn’t perfectly flat. |
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