I could just do a search but what fun is that?
After nearly a year and a half of owning my fiber, one of my customers came up with a new product that requires I use the fiber rotary. Most of what I HAVE done with the rotary is simple text around some sort of cylinder, and 'rotary textmark' works great for that. But my new job requires a pair of .010" thick lines engraved around the circumference of a 1-1/2" diameter cylinder. And the issue is the old 'the seams don't line up' problem. I got thru the prototypes okay by running 3 separate passes at split differences that don't divide into each other, 1.5mm, 1.1mm, and a .7mm low power 'cleanup pass, which successfully overlapped all the seams. But that's not going to work when doing lots of parts
So awhile back it was brought up that changing the 'pulses per round' setting AND the dip switches from 6400 to 12800 (?) or 20000 (?) resulted in a nearly seamless transition. Ergo, I'm curious as to who's had good luck with this change, and the settings...
For fun I was experimenting with changing the pulses per round number. At 5150 I think it was, I had a nearly perfect transition! However, the line that should have traveled 360° only went about 2/3 the way around. Extending the line length or changing the part diameter to 'artificially' reach the full 360 just resulted in the same small but noticeable un-engraved spaces at the transition points. Extending the per round number to 20000 made for HUGE un-engraved spaces. I'm assuming this is microstepping issue that just won't fix simply by changing numbers!
I'm going to open up the machine later today and locate the rotary driver and mess around a bit...