God Bless America! - UPDATED with Wood Base

[hansepe]

You are teaching a lot of us. Thanks for taking the time to document your projects so well.

[nunzioc]

Really? Wow, thanks! Glad to help, and glad to hear

[nunzioc]

Wow, interesting. Yeah, I’ve noticed little shiny spots here & there, kind of liquefied & mostly re-hardened, but sometimes with still a little bit of tackiness.

I just figured that this is par for the course, and didn’t even think of reporting it. I.E. if you set fire to a petroleum based product, you’re usually going to be left with some melted / polymerized residue.

[jamesdhatch]

@nunzioc

Wow, interesting. Yeah, I’ve noticed little shiny spots here & there, kind of liquefied & mostly re-hardened, but sometimes with still a little bit of tackiness.

I only get that when I’ve overpowered the cut and melted the stuff from flashback - when the settings are correct, everything cuts nicely with no residues.

[nunzioc]

interesting…I think I’ve seen it on engraves, with the pg auto settings…but I usually use the darkest engraves, so maybe that’s why?

[marmak3261]

@nunzioc

When I uploaded it through the “add artwork” it would appear reallllly tiny…

The difference between adding in the design space versus the workspace is interesting. I haven’t noted that difference with rasters. But then, I don’t believe I have been able to even upload an svg as a raster into the workspace before. This is new I believe (and SVG doesn’t show on the popup, but it does show up in the file selection menu.)

I tested it out with some bitmap squares and then SVGs. No difference.

For those grappling with dimensions of bitmaps for the first time, that can be quite a challenge. Not sure what you are familiar with.

There certainly are some things to learn about bitmap resolution and sizing. For example, a 1/2" square vector exported as a 150 pixel image at 300 DPI becomes an 1 1/2" square and at 600 DPI becomes a three inch square.

But adding the SVG as a raster in the design space is a plus but it only gives the engrave option. Unless this has been there all along and I just don’t recall it since I was so focused on not be able to load a second vector in the workspace.

[dan]

@henryhbk

@dan what if you use a custom material, since it forces you to enter the height?

The part that disables autofocus is changing the focus height on a step, not for the whole material.

@jamesdhatch

I wonder if that means I have a focus issue too then.

There aren’t any laser focus issues that I know of. The only focus issues I’ve heard reported are lid camera focus.

@nunzioc

Does anyone know if it is possible to set the thickness so that a thick enough piece of acrylic or glass can be engraved INSIDE, and only inside?

If you mean go through the material without affecting it and then vaporizing the inside, then I’m afraid not.

@nunzioc

2. I’ll ask you guys this before I maybe waste support’s time:

Please address all questions to support first. Answers here are always helpful and well-intentioned but not always correct. Further, if we don’t know we’re confusing people, we’ll never fix it.

[nunzioc]

Update in OP on 4/10/17; milled out a wooden base for the wire and LEDs