Fourteen Glass and Crystal Entries with Tested Settings
K9 and K5 crystal in balls, hearts, keychains and rectangles. Frosted sheet in clear, black and amber. Soda-lime glassware, a narrow-mouthed champagne flute, cobalt blue and high-temperature glass.
Forty more sit on the Community tab, submitted by makers working on bottles, mirrors, tumblers and Christmas bulbs — fifty-four records in total, each carrying a machine, a mode and the numbers that produced the result.

3D Inner Engraving Is a UV Job. Surface Frosting Is Not.
Frosting works on any wavelength. The beam lands on the face, abrades a shallow white layer, and you can feel it with a fingernail. Diode, CO2 and UV all do it — a mirror recorded 120 mm/s at 20% on a P2, a 16oz tempered glass 600 mm/s at 24% on a P2S.
3D inner engraving is different in kind. The focus sits inside the crystal, so microfractures form at depth while the outside stays smooth. That is what makes a photo look like it floats in the block, and on the tested set it only comes from the F2 Ultra UV.

Pick the Crystal or Glass Form
The form decides the process before the artwork does.
Which xTool Machine for Which Glass Job
Every machine here can frost a surface. Only one focuses inside the crystal.
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Glass Settings Tested by Real Makers
The machine each job was run on, and the numbers that produced the result.
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