I went a little deep on playing with defocused engraving of acrylic I think. But if you’ve been curious about defocusing and the results you can get from it, check out this video.
It can give you better results and save you a bunch of engrave time possibly.
Wow, thanks for that information! I have always wanted to try this and never knew it was that easy. I will definitely have to try this out the next I am engraving acrylic!
Noticeable differences! In a complex engrave, it might pay to do a 2nd sample that compared the time of the most-preferred .2 result to the most-preferred .3 result. It would be easy to chose the combination that fit your needs.
I just realized you can use the artifacts in the auto engraves as design elements. If you have related but individual pieces that will be engraved, you can orient some 90 degrees to the engraves of the others. This is assuming the designs are not quadrilateral and have the same ‘up’ orientation.
Troy the Maker has cut 1/2" clear acrylic on it. But I haven’t tried anything more than 1/4" so far. Although I’ll probably try 3/8" in the near future as it fits the lighted RGB bases better than either 1/8" or 1/4"