After spending countless hours adjusting, upgrading and failing with the Chinese 1490 machine I bought 3 years ago, I have finally given up on it ever working right and bought a 1290 60 watt from Lightobject. It’s fantastic machine. Now I’m getting creative and turning out usable items.
I do mechanical design in Fusion 360 and graphic layout in Corel. I export outlines and hole locations from fusion as a PDF, import into Corel and create text and graphics for control panels. I need to combine these vector cuts and raster images into a file to import in LB and run. Typically engraving and cutting the control panel in Rowmark or Trotek two layer material.
So far, I have tried exporting PDF and SVG. Each gives slightly different results in LB. Both require extra work to arrive at the final result I’m looking for. Questions:
Should I try exporting/importing AI files? I’ve read they handle vector and raster combined.
Should I export separate files for raster and vector? Bitmap for raster and SVG for vector, for example.
Should I process my curves and images in some way before exporting?
Please know I am coming from electrical and mechanical design background. My graphics experience is very little. I bought Corel a couple years ago to learn how to handle this stuff. So forgive if I’m missing obvious steps or processes.
Appreciate any guidance. I’ll be watching endless youtube tutorials…
George