As I was banging out some can coozies today with a rotary on my galvo I had this thought.
Wouldn’t it be sweet to be able to cylinder-corrected rotary jobs?
Why?
Sometimes engravings are too big to effectively work with cylinder correction. There is a balance to be struck with power before you either start to blow out detail in the case of a CO2 or mark the underlying metal for fiber. This leads me to think it would be awesome if you could run cylinder-corrected jobs on the rotary and split a larger logo into maybe 2 or 3 sections or more if doing full wraps. You can physically do this now but the results aren’t great, where the split occurs things don’t line up correctly in the small bit of testing I’ve done.
Anyways, just a thought I had today. Or maybe I’m missing something and this can already be accomplished? I have been running around 3mm split with 0.06mm overlap on the rotary and am getting good results for the current batch in about 45 seconds. When I tested this idea with cylinder correction and ran the split as 1/2 the width of the engraving it knocked it down to 36 seconds but alignment was not good on the corrected axis. Not life altering but still quicker, time is money they say.
Cheers
Mike