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Greyhound

Greyhound

Trail Rat
Jul 8, 2002
5,065
365
Alamance County, NC
Good Morning!!

Man....running a little late today. I just can't seem to pull it together this week for some reason or another.

Busy night of work on my engraver....finally test-fired the laser and got the results I was looking for. Learning this new software has been a real pain, but eventually I'll get used to it.
Not much going on this weekend other than knocking out some work and watching some football.
 
I Are Baboon

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
32,413
9,424
MTB New England
'Morning. Not too excited that it's Friday, since that means vacation is winding down. Booooooo!

I've got that exhausted grogginess one feels the morning after hard, tiring bike ride the day before. I miss that feeling.

I've got PT this morning, then the wife and I are going out for lunch, going to Costco and another store, then meeting a couple of friends tonight for a brewery open house then dinner. It'll be a good, busy day.
 
biggins

biggins

Rump Junkie
May 18, 2003
7,173
9
mornin.....getting laid off in two weeks. still bikeless.entering a fly fishing tournament this weekend.
 
Damo

Damo

Short One Marshmallow
Sep 7, 2006
4,603
27
French Alps
Today is my last day on the boat.
Seven weeks of living in cramped spaces cooking for Americans on the Forbes List.
I'll be heading home tomorrow morning with a great wad of cash that is going straight on bills.
Sigh.
 
Icantdrive65

Icantdrive65

Monkey
Mar 21, 2005
609
1
Chinquapin fire road
Greyhound said:
Busy night of work on my engraver....finally test-fired the laser and got the results I was looking for. Learning this new software has been a real pain, but eventually I'll get used to it.
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I feel your pain. I am sitting here trying to work around the quirks in my CAD/CAM software to do some engraving on my CNC mill. It's making me crazy. It throws in these extra arcs that don't show up on any previews. Then I go to engrave the actual plaque and it is ruined. I have to deliver these plaques by Monday and I am getting nowhere fast. :banghead:

I am really interested in your setup. I want to see pictures. I think I will eventually add a laser engraver to my operation if I can raise the cash.
 
Trainwreck

Trainwreck

Turbo Monkey
Aug 10, 2005
1,585
0
Med. to Well-Done in Phx
Good morning, only excitement on my end is suite tickets for the Suns game tonight.

Going to try and get back on the bike tomorrow after being off off of it sick for the last 3 weeks.

Have a good weekend!
 
Greyhound

Greyhound

Trail Rat
Jul 8, 2002
5,065
365
Alamance County, NC
Icantdrive65 said:
I am really interested in your setup. I want to see pictures. I think I will eventually add a laser engraver to my operation if I can raise the cash.
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No problem. I'll be doing quite a bit of work on it this weekend, so I'll get some pics up for you guys at the beginning of the week.

I've been looking at these things for about 8 years just waiting for the features to become more user friendly and the prices to come down to the average consumer range. I did some engraving of photos on black granite last night and back-filled with white printers ink to make the images pop out there better. They came out really nice.
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
54,394
20,185
Sleazattle
Icantdrive65 said:
I feel your pain. I am sitting here trying to work around the quirks in my CAD/CAM software to do some engraving on my CNC mill. It's making me crazy. It throws in these extra arcs that don't show up on any previews. Then I go to engrave the actual plaque and it is ruined. I have to deliver these plaques by Monday and I am getting nowhere fast. :banghead:

I am really interested in your setup. I want to see pictures. I think I will eventually add a laser engraver to my operation if I can raise the cash.
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Single or multi-pass engraving? If you are doing single pass letters there are a lot of nice macro programs out there that you can just download of the intarwebs, as long as you aren't trying to do any special Fonts or anything.
 
Icantdrive65

Icantdrive65

Monkey
Mar 21, 2005
609
1
Chinquapin fire road
Westy said:
Single or multi-pass engraving? If you are doing single pass letters there are a lot of nice macro programs out there that you can just download of the intarwebs, as long as you aren't trying to do any special Fonts or anything.
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Will they run a Fadal CNC mill? I am actually engraving an Adobe Illustrator file converted to dxf. Then I generate tool paths in BobCad V23. So I am actually engraving from vector files, not fonts.
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
54,394
20,185
Sleazattle
Icantdrive65 said:
Will they run a Fadal CNC mill? I am actually engraving an Adobe Illustrator file converted to dxf. Then I generate tool paths in BobCad V23. So I am actually engraving from vector files, not fonts.
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Probably would, which control? But what I mean by a single path engraving cycle is that the width of the letters is the width of your cutter, basically the toolpath is the same path as if you were writing. I've never used BobCAD so can't help you there.
 
Icantdrive65

Icantdrive65

Monkey
Mar 21, 2005
609
1
Chinquapin fire road
Westy said:
Probably would, which control? But what I mean by a single path engraving cycle is that the width of the letters is the width of your cutter, basically the toolpath is the same path as if you were writing. I've never used BobCAD so can't help you there.
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Fadals use their own control. I have 88h running format 1. I am pocketing the letters. Very custom stuff. Fadal does have their own engraving macros built into the machine, but I am doing fancy stuff. These plaques are going straight to Germany for a trade show. That's actually kind of cool now that I think about it.
 
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