I have been using an array of Adobe software to design my engravings for various precious metals, and have been struggling to make the edges between engraved area and non engraved areas softer. For example the engraving stops and is usually a large height difference(reletively) instead of it being tapered even slightly. I know I can use a 3D sliced image to make this gradual however for general text engraving is there an easier way to do this? Any tips are much appreciated.
Don’t know if you have figured anything out yet (I’d love to know!), but I’m trying to tackle this exact problem now. I have a 30W Raycus Fiber from Cloudray and I do engravings specifically for jewellery (rings, necklaces, bangles etc.).
Still experimenting but a potential solution could be to use the offset tool to create multiple layers offset internally to create a tapered finish? I haven’t had much success with this yet though, but I just bought a digital microscope to inspect the actual finish better. I’ll come back to this thread if I figure anything out!
What’s given me the smoothest finish so far is using the “finish shapes individually” setting and then using a cross hatch for each layer at 0.02-line interval.
I believe I have stumbled upon the solution!
Lightburn has a setting called “ramping”. Select this and then for text you select “ramp outer edge”. What this does is automatically scale down the power around the outer edge of your engraving (text) which will make the edges SO MUCH smoother!
For fills its also good etiquette to add cross hatching with automated angle shift per pass.