Debbie Sweet
06-26-2005, 5:49 AM
:eek: Help---I have a job that needs engraving onto acrylic. I'm a newbie to Coral and laser engraving. But Signwarehouse doesn't have Coreldraw so they can't really help me determine what my problem is and how to correct it. But I've struggled with this for 3 days now and am very frustrated and need to get this job out on MONDAY!!!
The first time I went to engrave I stopped the input to correct something. Then I resent. I got the wierdest little 1" lines engraving all over the place plus bands of lines and blank areas where there should be engraving. I called Signwarehouse they said that I should shut off my laser and restart it after I stop something in the middle of being sent. The laser gets garbeled up. So I tried it - It worked but I had to redo it because it had a bad edge from the laser hitting the cutting bd.pins. Ever since I tried to engrave again (about 8 times now) I get the same garbage again and sometimes different. This last time I didn't get any random lines but got blocks of missing engraved areas.
I'm trying to (mirror)engrave 2 graphics that I imported into Corel. But I had to clean the edges up. Being a newbie I can't figure out how to do this except make small patches of white (to block the black) or black patches to fill in. I think these patches are floating around and making these blank areas?? But when you go to look, they are in the right place and haven't moved. How are they getting there? And I keep shutting my machine off to clear everytime. The frustrating part is that it worked once and never again.
It would be nice to just correct the graphics original edge but I can't seem to click on them to change their outline Or find their outside outline.
Please I need help :confused: - if I do well on this job it would mean more potential work plus good word of mouth around our chamber meetings.
I appreciate any advise!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you
Debbie
The first time I went to engrave I stopped the input to correct something. Then I resent. I got the wierdest little 1" lines engraving all over the place plus bands of lines and blank areas where there should be engraving. I called Signwarehouse they said that I should shut off my laser and restart it after I stop something in the middle of being sent. The laser gets garbeled up. So I tried it - It worked but I had to redo it because it had a bad edge from the laser hitting the cutting bd.pins. Ever since I tried to engrave again (about 8 times now) I get the same garbage again and sometimes different. This last time I didn't get any random lines but got blocks of missing engraved areas.
I'm trying to (mirror)engrave 2 graphics that I imported into Corel. But I had to clean the edges up. Being a newbie I can't figure out how to do this except make small patches of white (to block the black) or black patches to fill in. I think these patches are floating around and making these blank areas?? But when you go to look, they are in the right place and haven't moved. How are they getting there? And I keep shutting my machine off to clear everytime. The frustrating part is that it worked once and never again.
It would be nice to just correct the graphics original edge but I can't seem to click on them to change their outline Or find their outside outline.
Please I need help :confused: - if I do well on this job it would mean more potential work plus good word of mouth around our chamber meetings.
I appreciate any advise!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you
Debbie