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I think most of us are 4 year olds on this forum Especially me, I am 23 with no experience with any woodworking or machinery at all, I kind of just dove right in and hoped for the best. Trying to soak in as much information as possible as I go around, I probably ask some dumb questions. I always try to use the search tool as often as possible, as I know it can be frustrating for the big rigs on this forum to have to repeat themselves over and over!
Iāve been using the settings you provided in one of your threads. Only cutting 0.01" deep. Iāve boiled it down to 3 things. I am using extruded acrylic (solved this issue yesturday when I was finally able to source some cast acrylic for half the price out of town in a big city and had 50 pieces shipped to me) Next is the bit, this is the bit I am using (30 degree bits for fine scoring or engraving, sharp point, narrow tip Kyocera | eBay) I also fixed this issue by buying the pack of bits that you recommended. Hoping they show up soon also. Last issue is the collet adapter, I feel like the 90ipm is just to much for this adapter. (Just bought the elaire collet you just linked)
Feed Rate: 90ipm
Plunge Rate: 9IPM
Depth per pass: 0.01
I was wondering if you have seen this for f-engrave before. I am trying to do a 3.5x2 image of my logo (just testing f engrave to see what I can do with it). I started with a vector and changed it to a dxf and bmp. I couldnt get the dxf to load into f-engrave but I got the BMP to upload, however, the quality is absolutely horrible!
The accuracy seems way off and it appears to be missing a lot of the smaller details. Is there a setting I am missing in the software or should I doing something else? Thanks in advance!
@PhilJohnson I may have answered my own question. I changed the vector do about 40in from 3.5in and it cleared up quite a bit. I am assuming it was due to such a low quality BMP.
I think it is a Disqus āfeatureā. Each user can unpin it for themselves and it does it automatically by default. Thereās a setting for this behavior in āsettingsā:
So what you might be seeing is that you have that checkbox on and it unpins it in your view when you reach the bottom. But itās still pinned for everybody else (until they reach the bottom).
So it looks like this is due to the āfeature/optionā that @MarkWalker mentioned. Looks to be defaulted on for users.
You can also see that when you hover over the pin icon it will say something like, āunpinned for youā. Which means it should still show up for users who havenāt discovered it yet.
I would suggest for anyone how finds this post helpful and you would like to have a quick reference/access to ābookmarkā the post.
Iāve marked this post as a wiki now as well, not really sure what that does, but maybe it will help with itās visibility.
Good work on the post @PhilJohnson, there is some great info here.
Especially me, I am 23 with no experience with any woodworking or machinery at all, I kind of just dove right in and hoped for the best. Trying to soak in as much information as possible as I go around, I probably ask some dumb questions. I always try to use the search tool as often as possible, as I know it can be frustrating for the big rigs on this forum to have to repeat themselves over and over!
