With my arriving yesterday and my materials not coming until Friday, I had to do my first prints on the fancy specialty acrylics I got from Inventables.
I did the founder’s ruler on metallic silver, and two quickly-designed-in-Inkscape pendants on gun-metal metallic. The silver is a smooth finish, while the gun-metal is a brushed texture. It’s hard to get a good picture of the gun-metal as it’s so reflective and shiny. It’s also ever so slightly darker than the silver.
They all came out great – both engraves and cuts – using the Black Acrylic settings. Easy-peasy.
Now if I could just use my machine in the evenings when my workshop is a scorching 77-degrees… grumble (latest update expands working temps!)
Wow! Thanks for showing that. We’d been thinking of getting some and it’s really great to see how it looks engraved. Gotta say, the ruler looks pretty fantastic! And the triangle looks like it’d be illegal in 17 states if it’s concealed.
Mine was 78F last night and everything worked fine for the barnyard floss animals I cut. Have you turned it off since you got it? Might be a firmware update (the one @dan referred to in his temperature update) that you need. Mine did take a bit longer to calibrate and get ready to use last night but then it ran beautifully.
Ran some jobs yesterday with the ambient temp being 77, and things just purred along! That update also had the change in LEDs which I now noticed. Looks like that did the trick! Yay! (Of course it’s supposed to be 101 later this week, so my studio will probably be in the 90’s )
arriving yesterday and my 
materials not coming until Friday, I had to do my first prints on the fancy specialty acrylics I got from Inventables. 
(Of course it’s supposed to be 101 later this week, so my studio will probably be in the 90’s 
)