Aluminum dog tags

One quick note: I’ve since worked on settings a bit, lpi seems to matter a lot more than I would have thought. I was doing 340 but have since upped it to 600+ and the result is much better. Aluminum engraves so crisply that it was easy to see the lines at 340, 600+ gives a much smoother edge.

I fooled with doing 340 engraving but then running a score of the same path to define the edges and got great results, but my specific path here had a few issues with open nodes and it was not cool. If I were going to make hundreds of these I’d probably work on that some more, lower lpi and scoring is much faster than high lpi and yields similar results.

(Shifted to BTM for settings discussion)

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