I finally am getting a decent looking engraving with regard to burning off the powder coat.
Every time I run a test, the last letter of the longest sentence is truncated or screwed up. If I could figure this out, I’d be off an running. It’s not slipping on the rotary. I’ve tried different tumblers. I thought I had a good one yesterday, but I was wrong. I had a 102 fever and really didn’t see all what I had engraved. Part of the s was missing.
Can someone take a look at my engraving, and the LB file and tell me what isn’t ticked or right? Why would it want to screw up just half of the last letter? The word is supposed to be Hello
I’ve got to get some rest. Over done it yesterday… But I’m so close, I can taste it.
Update: I “think” I might have found it. I had to lower the speed down from 300 mm / sec to 50. Jason seems to think I should be able to run at 300 with no issues.
Just ran another test. Same results, so speed isn’t the problem. One line at 300mm /sec
the other at 50 mm /sec. Output was the same for both. Using 00 for my layer number. Do different fonts matter in the whole scheme of things?
I don’t see any issues with the artwork. It must be something mechanical. The rest of the lettering looks ok…
That’s how I set mine. Then I align the cups logo, which is usually in the middle to the mug so it’s pointed up, that would be the center with the head on the left.
I don’t use the center because I don’t know where the center will be on the mug. Whatever floats your boat. I agree with pretty much anything that works.
If you put the cups logo strait up, that would be the centre of your burn. Them frame to adjust how far from the top of the cup.
I find that running the frame equal amounts from side to side helps. It may not, but it does work for me.
Are you starting at the “H” and going towards the “O”?
if so, it kind of looks like you are running out of y axis movement.
Moving the job origin to centre or right “may” help.
The laser is always running right to left, starting with the last letter in any word or sentence. Is that an I issue? I have to rotary located physically in the middle of the honeycomb bed. The drive wheels are located nearest side to the stop button, and control buttons on the panel
I just ran one of those line boxes to see if both ends hit each other. 270mm both ends touch.
Just thought of something.
Once you get everything aligned, what are you using for “start from”?
With everything set where you want, using Current position may be the answer.
That goes along with my running out of y movement.
Still guessing here.
Change the setting to Current position, however; when I perform a frame it frames dead center on the tumbler, no matter where I place the artwork. I can move the artwork top right on x/y, and it frames in the center of the tumbler, which is sitting in the center of the laser… I tried it, but the right side of the 0 is half the size of the left side.
I think I might have been getting that confused with absolute position, but anyhooo, it didn’t fix it.
