So I just thought of something. Recently I made a little LED sign which many on here have seen, I’ll link to that post:
My question really is this. When I made some keychains on the clear acrylic a while back, it didn’t seem like it engraved as deeply as it did on the sign. I don’t remember doing anything different between the two, just the file type I uploaded to the GUI was different. The keychains I believe used a PNG and the sign was an SVG file. Left the settings to whatever the forge had chosen on both. Was there something I’ve missed on the sign settings? I like the way it turned out, but, I feel it could have not engraved as deeply on the sign and it would have been faster and looked a bit better…
Possibly. If you used a PNG, the color makes a difference. If using the vari-power option, it will modulate the power dependent upon the grayscale value of the pixels.
One thought–had you cleaned the lenses before doing the keychains? Sometimes acrylic can leave residue/blow back on the lens, and will thus affect quality on subsequent jobs. And I only know enough to be dangerous, but different files is more likely the cause–since line resolution & such can vary, so even with the same power, speed & thickness, you’ll get different result with different lpi & such, or if images had different contrast…
Actually the keychains were the first acrylic projects I worked on. I’m thinking it has to do with the resolution of the images I used and the different formats of them. The keychains I engraved some text that was a pretty low resolution image to be honest. The LED sign was a much higher res SVG file.