Send me the artwork and I will run it through EnRoute, which can handle 3D engraving on a curved surface much better. Depending on the plastic you will probably be happier with an engraving tool with a small tip (.001 or .005 need to see the artwork) That tip gives you a little rotation to actually cut the material rather than rub and melt. I will also need the spec on the shape of the button as I will create a 3d surface to match that EnRoute will follow when creating the engrave toolpath.
Thos. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Erik Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am routing some lettering on some small plastic buttons with a .020 ball > nose feeding at 15 ipm. I am using vcarve pro to create the lettering, > using Norm West 1L, or a single line font. I am using create profile, on, > to route the line, and doing two passes, one conventional, one climb, in an > attempt to minimize the plastic from leaving a curled edge on the cut. It > isn't working well enough. Really, I need to be cutting this as a vector > that is .001" wide, and routing it all conventional, as I think this would > fix the edge problem. Not sure how to get there with Vcarve pro though. > Any other suggestions out there? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
