Welcome to the Sienci Community Forum!

This user group has been created so that our machine owners and other CNC router enthusiasts can post questions and answers in order to learn how to better use and enjoy their machines!

Connect with other users to share ideas
Show off your machine setup, coolest project successes, or largest failures
Share any useful tools or resources that would benefit our other members
Feedback is always accepted, we want to always do better

We want our forum to be a place of helpful, educational, and enlightening conversation. There should be no need for shaming, demeaning words, name calling, arguments, inappropriate content, or anything else of the sort.

This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion. Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We aspire to be a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation. In order to help nurture this environment, we’ve set out some guidelines below that are not by any means strict, but are encouraged when engaging within this community. Below is a very concise list, but elaborations to the core rules can also be found further down if you’re looking to better understand the expected conduct.

Terms of Conduct

These Terms of Conduct outline the expectations that we have for the Sienci Community forum. These are presented in the hopes that it will foster a helping and understanding community of CNC users not just for our machines but for the CNC community as a whole. To ensure appropriate conduct, users will be expected to abide by the Terms. Understand that Sienci Labs, the Administration Team, or its Moderators reserve the right to suspend users, restrict their privileges, and remove their content at any time if they violate these rules or as we see fit.

This forum is meant to provide a relaxed and respectful atmosphere for everyone to share their experiences and learn from each other.
Refrain from using coarse language, including: swearing, cursing or inappropriate jokes.
No explicit or disturbing content, including: nudity, sexuality, or violence.
Racism, sexism and any other forms of discrimination will not be tolerated.
Bullying, mocking, threats, hate speech and other forms of hostility are not welcome here. Be kind and courteous to fellow members.
No political or religious discussions.
You may have a differing opinion, but that does not mean you have the right to bash others for their opinion. You should try to demonstrate your point of view in a respectful manner.
Please use the search function to see if the problem you are having or question you have has been asked before. If it has, review that information, and then post any additional questions you may have.
Do not share passwords, email addresses or any other personal information with people you do not know. Keep your personal information safe. Do not solicit this account information from other users.
If you suspect someone has hacked or tried to hack your account please inform an admin immediately.
You can sell and buy accessories, materials or work that are personally owned. Special approval from the Moderator or Administration team must be granted for those wishing to sell commercial products. Please contact a Moderator or Admin member to request approval to sell commercial products through the forum.
Each user should only have 1 active account on the forum.
Content posted must be either the user’s own property, if it is not yours you must either receive appropriate permission by the original owner or give credit if required.
Spamming, either through private messaging or through public posts, is prohibited.
Sienci Labs, the Administration Team, Moderators, or other representatives will not be held liable or responsible for any damages to persons or equipment through use of practices learned on this forum. Each person has a responsibility for personal safety. If you feel what you see is not safe then do not do it.

The Terms of Content are what we consider as addressing any average user who is reasonable. Knowing to maintain friendly conversation, treat the features and layout of the forum with respect, and share projects or information with due process on a public forum are all manners that would be akin to having appropriate table manners.

Rather than conclude the Terms here, we feel it would be best to still provide:

additional examples to cover more of the nuance of actions which we feel could occur on this forum
some more boring ‘legalese’ at the end

Our top priority will always be to promote a positive CNC learning environment and to protect each and every forum user. We feel that the combination of Terms of Content, examples, and legalese accomplishes this

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.

Keep a Level Head

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

Name-calling
Ad hominem attacks
Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

This forum provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

Keep It Tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So, try not to:

Start a topic in the wrong category.
Cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
Post no-content replies.
Divert a topic by changing it midstream.
Sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.

Powered by You

Remember that this site is operated by your friendly local staff and you, the community. If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in the feedback category and let’s discuss! If there’s a critical or urgent issue that can’t be handled by a feedback topic or flag, contact us via the staff page.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have this Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use our (Sienci Labs) online internet forum (http://forum.sienci.com), you must agree to abide by our TOS.

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Important Terms
Your Permission to Use the Forum
Conditions for Use of the Forum
Acceptable Use
Content Standards
Enforcement
Your Account
Your Content
Your Responsibility
Disclaimers
Limits on Liability
Feedback
Termination
Disputes
General Terms
Contact
Changes

Important Terms

These terms include a number of important provisions that affect your rights and responsibilities, such as the disclaimers in Disclaimers, limits on the company’s liability to you in Limits on Liability, your agreement to cover the company for damages caused by your misuse of the forum in Responsibility for Your Use, and an agreement to arbitrate disputes in Disputes.

Your Permission to Use the Forum

Subject to these terms, the company gives you permission to use the forum. Everyone needs to agree to these terms to use the forum.

Conditions for Use of the Forum

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

You must be at least thirteen years old.
You may no longer use the forum if the company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

Acceptable Use

You may not break the law using the forum.
You may not use or try to use another’s account on the forum without their specific permission.
You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.
You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
You may not use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the company.
You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the forum on other webpages.
You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the forum.
You may not show any part of the forum on other websites with <iframe>.
You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.
You may not strain infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.
You may not impersonate others through the forum.
You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

Content Standards

You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, or abusive.
You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
You may not submit content to the forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
You may not submit content to the forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
You may not use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

Enforcement

The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.

The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.

Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing hi@sienci.com.

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

The company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.

Your Content

Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the forum. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.

Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.

Content you submit to the forum belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the forum.

When content you submit is removed from the forum, whether by you or by the company, the company’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from the company’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or the company itself, the right to share your content through the forum again.

Others who receive content you submit to the forum may violate the terms on which you license your content. You agree that the company will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.

Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify the company from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the forum. Both you and the company agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify the company as soon as possible. If the company fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to indemnify the company for damages that you could have defended against or mitigated with prompt notice. You agree to allow the company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the company, and to cooperate with those efforts. The company agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.

Disclaimers

You accept all risk of using the forum and content on the forum. As far as the law allows, the company and its suppliers provide the forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever.

The forum may hyperlink to and integrate forums and services run by others. The company does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.

Limits on Liability

Neither the company nor its suppliers will be liable to you for breach-of-contract damages their personnel could not have reasonably foreseen when you agreed to these terms.

As far as the law allows, the total liability to you for claims of any kind that are related to the forum or content on the forum will be limited to $50.

Feedback

The company welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the forum. See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.

You agree that the company will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that the company won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

Termination

Either you or the company may end the agreement written out in these terms at any time. When our agreement ends, your permission to use the forum also ends.

The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.

Disputes

Ontario Law will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum.

You and the company agree to seek injunctions related to these terms only in state or federal court in Kitchener, Ontario. Neither you nor the company will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.

Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you and the company will resolve any Dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in San Francisco, California. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the company’s permission.

Any arbitration award will include costs of the arbitration, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and reasonable costs for witnesses. You and the company may enter arbitration awards in any court with jurisdiction.

General Terms

If a provision of these terms is unenforceable as written, but could be changed to make it enforceable, that provision should be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Otherwise, that provision should be removed.

You may not assign your agreement with the company. The company may assign your agreement to any affiliate of the company, any other company that obtains control of the company, or any other company that buys assets of the company related to the forum. Any attempted assignment against these terms has no legal effect.

Neither the exercise of any right under this Agreement, nor waiver of any breach of this Agreement, waives any other breach of this Agreement.

These terms embody all the terms of agreement between you and the company about use of the forum. These terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the forum, written or not.

Contact

You may notify the company under these terms, and send questions to the company, at hi@sienci.com.

The company may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the forum or your account page.

Changes

The company last updated these terms on August 25, 2021, and may update these terms again. The company will post all updates to the forum. For updates that contain substantial changes, the company agrees to e-mail you, if you’ve created an account and provided a valid e-mail address. The company may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the forum.

Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the forum.