48 – Laser Job Positioning and Virtual Arrays (33:34)

The Lightblade Learning Lab with Russ Sadler

The Lightblade Learning Lab is a series of videos that Russ did for Thinklaser Limited based on using the Lightblade 4060 Laser Cutting and Laser Engraving Machine. Thinklasers Lightblade 4060 has a 400 x 600mm bed size and was supplied with a 60W EFR laser tube. In this video, Russ discusses the process of laser job positioning and goes on to explain how Virtual Arrays work.

Laser job positioning and how to set up a job
Laser Job Positioning and How to Set Up A Job

Contents

  • Reference points.
  • Checking the table is solid.
  • Modifications to the honeycomb table to remove movement.
  • The origin button.
  • Setting reference edges (must be inside work area or job will fail)
  • RDWorks and the green head position marker square.
  • Current position and the origin button.
  • Absolute co-ordinates.
  • Position references of objects in the drawing.
  • Creating a reference rectangle showing the outline of the table in relation to the drawing.
  • How to create a test graphic.
  • Creating an array, i.e. multiple copies of the graphic in the drawing.
  • Effect of the ‘Independent Output’ feature.
  • Order of scanning and cutting processes.
  • How to scan and cut, scan and cut, etc. using ‘Virtual Arrays’
  • Making a reference square.
  • Issues associated with accuracy of the head when using a reference square.
  • Correcting play in the steel bed.
  • Engraving and cutting an example in Acrylic.
  • The ‘Current’ feature.
  • Use of Isopropyl Alcohol to give the work a shine (provided the Acrylic is not clear).

My thanks go out to Tom at Thinklaser for giving permission to embed these videos on this site. If you are looking for a new laser machine from a quality supplier, then I would suggest you check out their website: www.thinklaser.com.

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[Music]

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welcome to another lightblade learning lab

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today we’re going to cover a couple

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of topics that crop up regularly as

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questions one of them is how do I locate

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my work so that it’s always referenced

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to the same position and the second

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question is all about arrays there are

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two types of array in RDWorks what

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happens called array and the other ones

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called virtual array there is a big

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difference between the two that many

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people don’t actually understand so

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we’ll check on that subject later on

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after we’ve touched on how do I locate

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my work to a reference point now the

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most important part of that last

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sentence was reference point the word

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reference basically means somewhere that

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I can rely on that’s fixed so when we

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start the Machine off and we do a reset

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the Machine goes to its own reference

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point and it sets a zero zero in that

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corner and if I drive the machine to

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there and look on the keyboard it will

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say 0 for X and 0 for Y now I’m just

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going to remove my steel solid table to

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reveal what’s underneath which is a

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fixed slap table the one thing about a

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reference point is it cannot wander

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around so if you grab hold of your table

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and it moves you can’t have a reference

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point as the machine moves around and

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shakes your table could equally well

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move in the opposite direction possibly

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and give the errors so it’s absolutely

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fundamental that the table is solid you

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will have also be supplied

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with one of these a honeycomb table I

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don’t think you could call that a

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reference to you now I’ve attempted to

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make this into a reference table because

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what I’ve done on each of the corners I

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have removed the screws and I’ve put a

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small stainless steel angle on each

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corner on opposite corners now this

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gives me the opportunity of juggling the

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corners over the solid part of the

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bedroom it is possible to move this and

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trap it underneath these points here so

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that’s the main reason why I put corners

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on the honeycomb bed now because I never

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use this as a reference and I rarely use

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this as a table as you can see after

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nearly two years this table is almost

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clean because I don’t use it a very

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personal opinion this is one of the

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worst things that was ever put onto a

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laser machine if you love this sort of

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table then go ahead and use it but what

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I would advise you to do is this now

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we’ve got the corners on but because

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we’ve still got movement there all right

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now we can get rid of that movement with

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a little bit of brutality we can grab

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hold of these corners and we can bend

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them in very slightly here and here

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so with a little bit of judicious

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bending of those corners I can make this

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now into a basically part solid part of

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the table underneath so that there’s no

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movement on it now although this corner

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here is not zero zero as you can see

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it’s probably something like 50/50 in

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other words we’ve lost 50 millimetres of

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available work space if I use that

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corner there as a reference I couldn’t

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decide to locate my work there now I

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can’t guarantee that this edge here and

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this edge here are absolutely true and

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square to the axis of the machine in

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fact I can see when I look down the edge

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here that this table is very slightly

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probably out of position use some

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double-sided tape on here

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okay now I’ve got a piece of scrap

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acrylic here which I’m going to peel the

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covering off on I’m using acrylic

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because it’s a nice shiny surface and

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the double-sided tape that I’ve put on

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here will stick well to it

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speed to about

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five or four of three

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and I should be able to get those

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dimensions fairly now

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29.9 a little prick

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30 get

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and this one here in X is 30 as well so

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I’ve got my zero in that corner sector

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30 30 so if I press the origin button

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now

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and I’ll set my power pole power and my

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speed a suitable speed to cut this

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material

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and that will be around about probably

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eight millilitres a second and just make

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sure we’ve got the focus height set

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knife

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[Music]

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hold the post button down

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and press the left arrow

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okay

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now remember I set the origin at 1330

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it’s going to take me ages to send that

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head back to zero so if I press reset

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what happened is it will go back at a

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comfortable speed and it will set back

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to 30 30 in the origin point

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there we go keyboard says 30 40 so now I

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can do exactly the same thing in the

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wires

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it’s hold the pulse button on

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we’ve never got an absolutely perfectly

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square reference each to work to to put

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our work in and the table is not moving

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so we can guarantee that position 30 30

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is always going to be in that corner

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there now

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I must remind you that every time you

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take this table off it may not go back

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in the same position we’ll carry on

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using this table for the moment as we

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have already set their reference up and

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we go and take a look how we should use

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this for working with in our D works now

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at the moment any job that I put on to

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this drawing has got the head position

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shown with a little green square now

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that head position is defined by coming

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down here and we will find that what

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we’ve got is something called position

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current position and current position

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means that wherever you position the

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head and press the origin button that is

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where the head will start we can come

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down to here and we can change this

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current position to absolute co-ordinate

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and that’s what I would recommend that

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you do because now what I’ve done I’ve

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changed this so that when the machine

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cuts this job it will cut it from the

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co-ordinate of this head position now

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this starts to get a little bit more

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complicated because at the moment the

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reference position for this object is

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relative to the centre point there and

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let me just explain to you if we go to

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config system setting we should find

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that we’ve got the position for the

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laser head shown which is the Green

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Square and those nine positions for the

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head should not be confused with this

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little box up here beside the padlock

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on that and you’d find another nine

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positions at the moment you’ll see that

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the dot is right in the middle

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now just for convenience I’m going to do

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two things first of all I’m going to

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mark that square and we’re going to

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change its position we’re going to

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change its dimensions to 100 by 100 and

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now I’m going to drive it to position

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and here we got X&Y at the top here to

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position 1 hunt position 50/50 and you

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see where it’s driven to now it’s driven

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to the centre point here at 50/50 now if

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I change

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this here to that position if I now

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check the co-ordinate position of that

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square you’ll see that it now says zero

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zero

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that’s because look I’ve set this corner

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position here which is the position

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reference for the object to zero zero so

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even if I draw a circle now and I make

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that circle let’s just close the padlock

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and I make that circle 100 millimeters I

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put handles around that I’ve still got

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this Center position shown but if I tell

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that Square to go to positioned zero

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zero it also jumps up into that corner

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because it’s dragged around by its top

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right-hand corner handle that’s where

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the object is now referenced to so it’s

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important that you understand the use of

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this little square here because that’s

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how you need to position your work

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reference to zero zero we’re not going

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to position our work to zero zero we’re

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going to position our circle to actually

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30 30

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now that would cut a circle that just

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touched our reference square now the

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chances are that we don’t want that so

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just for guidance what I would tend to

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do is draw a rectangle on here and set

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this rectangle

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at position 30 30 so now you know

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exactly where your reference square is

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and you can even give it a different

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color put it on a separate layer like

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that and make that a non cutting layer

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is output no so now you’ve got a

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reference there and that defines the

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table area that you can work in and

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where your corner is going to be right

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so if I now want to cut that circle at a

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specific position let’s just say that

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relative to that top right hand corner I

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want to move it in by 10 and 10 then

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basically I’ve got to remember that my

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corner is 30 30 and the top corner of

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that circle is now going to be 40 and 40

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we’re going to cut it I don’t know

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what’s in material I’m going to be using

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probably something like some I might use

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some plywood okay so we use a small

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piece of plywood and that’s probably

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going to be cutting three millimetre

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plywood probably cut that around about

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15 or maybe 20 millimetres a second and

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blowing yes scanning we’re gonna cut and

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we’re gonna have power 70% okay so

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that’s my circle I’m going to cut that

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circle relative to that corner 10

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millimetres in from the edge of my

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material now I’m also going to put a

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subtext in there I could put a picture

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in there but let’s just put text in and

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we’ll make it some sort of fancy text

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should we let’s do something silly like

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Bauhaus it doesn’t really matter

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100% width

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and we’ll have characters that maybe

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let’s just see what 10 looks like yeah

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that’s okay first of all I’m going to

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ungroup all of that lot then I’m going

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to group that one group then I’m going

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to group this one group then I’m going

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to group this one group

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the whole lot I’m going to mark the

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whole lot and I’m going to specify it to

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be sent centralized and vertically and

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there we go now it’s justified

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now put the whole lot back into a group

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will change it to a blue layer and I can

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position all of that because it’s a

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group with that as a second object so if

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I hold my shift key down press that as a

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second object and then ask it to be

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centered that way and this way I’ve now

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got my text in the middle of my badge

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let’s call it that and we set the blue

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layer to be a scan layer and we’ll run

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that it’s a four hundred his output yes

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blowing no processing mode scan

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power mmm let’s try about 30% scanning

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interval 0.1 doesn’t do now while we’re

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looking at this little logo I’m going to

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mark it and put it into a group and now

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I’m going to ask it for an array now I’m

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going to do an array copy here and if we

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take a look at this little logo here

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which I’m clicking at the moment you’ll

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see that there’s a little black dot in

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the corner now you need to put the

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little black dot at the top right hand

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corner which is where you’re going to

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build your array from because you’re

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going to build it going left and going

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downwards exactly as it says here and

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we’re going to put three on the top line

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and we’re gonna have spacing of five

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millimetres between each one and we’re

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going to put three downwards and again

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five spacing between them okay and there

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we go that was nice and simple wasn’t it

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let’s have a look what happens right

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let’s do a simulation we’ll run it as

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fast as we can

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so it’s building from the bottom upwards

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scanning across whole lines and

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everything now only when it’s finished

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scanning all of the text will it go and

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cut the badges out and here we go

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ba-ba-ba-ba-bom 1 2 etc sometimes that’s

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not very convenient especially if you’ve

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got a very complex engraving and you

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don’t want to run the risk of the

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engraving shifting relative to the

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outside shape and that can happen quite

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often for various reasons it would be

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very convenient if we could do the text

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cut the shape do the text cut the shape

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etc so how do we do that I know you say

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look we’ve got this feature built into

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scanning

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independent output let’s try that

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no that’s not working is it it’s

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probably saving us a lot of time but

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it’s still doing all the scanning before

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it does the cutting

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well there are many things that you

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could try for example you could put the

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text on this one on one layer and then

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the cutting on another layer this one

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text on one layer and that one on

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another layer trust me it won’t work it

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will always do the scanning before it

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does the cutting that’s a golden rule

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associated with our D works you cannot

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beat that rule okay now if we look under

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work we shall also find that we’ve got

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one of these funny little symbols down

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here first of all we must mark the job

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and when we come over here but we had

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this little array symbol down here this

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little positional thing well we’ve got

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exactly the same thing here which makes

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you think that well you know it’s the

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same doing the same thing in a different

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area but it’s not over here it’s called

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a virtual array so you need to click on

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virtual array and when you clicked on it

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you should be able to remove your array

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direction to the right corner which is

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the top right hand corner for you and

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now we can specify in here that we want

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for instance 3 in X with a spacing of 5

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millimeters between them we need 3 in Y

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with a spacing of 5 between them we have

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to move to a new box of some sort to get

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our spacing ok now you notice everything

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is dotted here it’s because it’s a

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virtual array it’s not a real array

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let’s go and have a look what’s happened

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when we go and view it this time

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where they all gone they’re not there

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now if we click on simulation watch what

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happens

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text outside shape that’s what’s going

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to happen here then it’s going to pitch

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across to here and do the same thing

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then across to here and do the same

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thing so now we have got individual scan

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cut scan cut scan cut a very useful

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feature if you have got hundreds of

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these on a big sheet and you want to

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start for instance cleaning them or

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painting them you might want to stop the

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machine and picked four off them out six

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of them out and carry on you’ll

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obviously need to be careful but of

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course you’ve got your corner reference

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here so even if you disturbed the job

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you can always put the job back plus the

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fact that you’re not going to upset the

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relative outlines of these positions

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because they’re not there they’re not

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there until you’ve scanned and cut

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scanned and cut so even if you move your

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base material it’s not going to be a big

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issue to make this a lot more compact

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I’m going to reduce this to a scale of

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say 50%

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bear in mind I’ve got my padlock closed

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let’s see what happens

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very intelligent isn’t it everything is

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changed by 50% just because I’ve changed

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one of them right now before we run this

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job something I must tell you although

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I’ve drawn this green square outside

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here for convenience when it comes to

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running it on the machine the machine

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won’t allow you to run that green square

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even though we’ve specified it as do not

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cut the actual dimensions are outside

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the work area so we must make sure that

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this green square is held just inside

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the work area like that you must have

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this setting here on your machine that’s

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plugged into the PC and you must have

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this co-ordinate down here set as

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absolute coordinate with your machine

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connected to the PC both of those are

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essential so you cannot actually

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transfer this program as a dot ro D file

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to another PC that’s connected to the

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machine you can save this program as a

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dot Rd file in other words save to au

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file and all the information stored in

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this program will be put into your

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machine and you’ll be able to run this

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from the machine but the safest way to

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run this stuff is to run it on a PC and

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program it on a PC that’s connected to

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your

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[Music]

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so there we go virtual array in action

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scan scan

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this is one way that you can achieve a

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datum reference let’s just take this as

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an example of something that I want to

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make my reference square from now what

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I’ve got to do is to make sure that I

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lower the bed because there’s a lip just

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here and across the back here I need to

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make sure that my reference square sits

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below that lip and sits on the edge of

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the frame around the back here because

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this part of the machine is actually

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quite square because we don’t have a

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great deal of support along this edge

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here we need to have this fairly thick

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down here and across the back so again

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we’re probably going to lose at least 50

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mil I would think

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so that’s 40 40 I press my origin button

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now can see how the smoke

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Eddie’s underneath there it was a great

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deal of air movement underneath there is

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though

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and that’s a classic example of what’s

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happening inside the honeycomb

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there is no escape from the honeycomb

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reset

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there we go 40 40 so I can use that

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square again and again to set my

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reference

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and of course I shall still have to use

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absolute coordinates when I’m drawing in

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our D works but there is one major

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problem with this approach and the

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problem now is this length here is so

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long that on beginner to generate a

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potential error with my lens I can’t

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guarantee that the – I can’t guarantee

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the beam is going to pass right down the

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true centre of the lens because if we

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watch very carefully look

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there’s a little bit of clearance in

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here and

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I’m not pushing and pulling that very

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hard but I can move that a millimetre

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push it that way

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both

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so you can clearly see there that we’ve

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got two positions vertically and two

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positions horizontally that that nozzle

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could take up because it’s so far

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extended and not very well supported

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so all I’m warning about is that’s fine

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if you understand what the limitations

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are of using this system now in a

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situation like this where maybe you want

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to engrave on the surface of a block

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because you’ve got some height here it’s

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another problem because we’ve pulled the

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nozzle right up and we’re still on this

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piece of metal here we could go down

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with the table quite a long way so this

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is a very convenient way for instance if

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you’re engraving on the surface of a box

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or something and you want a reference

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now finally I’m going to show you a

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slightly different approach to the

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problem

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which may suit some people now this is

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using my solid metal table when I first

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made this it sits over the table and

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snuggles in but it’s not absolutely

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perfect and error free it’s not movement

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free so what I had to do was to cut a

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small slot in here at the end of each

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side and then I went in there with my

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screwdriver and I very carefully bent it

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up just to increase the overall length

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because I made it wrong by maybe a

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millimetre so now when I put the totally

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it sits in there and does not move at

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all

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no I’ll wear that lots of people use

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these machines for producing trinkets at

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craft fairs for Christmas for birthdays

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for all sorts of celebration occasions

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and

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00:27:39.19 –> 00:27:46.360
they have lots of these already made

498
00:27:42.84 –> 00:27:49.600
standard on the shelf now here’s one

499
00:27:46.36 –> 00:27:52.180
that I produced earlier absolute rubbish

500
00:27:49.6 –> 00:27:55.150
but hey it demonstrates the point it’s

501
00:27:52.18 –> 00:27:58.210
not for sale so no you can’t have one

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502
00:27:55.15 –> 00:28:02.590
even if you ask for one what we do we

503
00:27:58.21 –> 00:28:06.370
manufacture the whole of the unit the

504
00:28:02.59 –> 00:28:10.720
cutting the hole the butterfly the the

505
00:28:06.37 –> 00:28:15.040
logo but we leave off the red layer

506
00:28:10.72 –> 00:28:17.760
which is the personalization so we’ll go

507
00:28:15.04 –> 00:28:17.760
to the red layer

508
00:28:20.059 –> 00:28:27.639
and where it says is output we say no

509
00:28:24.19 –> 00:28:32.679
okay so everything will be cut and

510
00:28:27.639 –> 00:28:32.679
engraved on there except the red layer

511
00:28:32.98 –> 00:28:38.539
and now what we’re going to do we’re

512
00:28:35.679 –> 00:28:43.209
going to come down here

513
00:28:38.539 –> 00:28:43.209
and we’re going to specify to

514
00:28:44.23 –> 00:28:50.390
with a five mil spacing

515
00:28:47.55 –> 00:28:50.390
and to

516
00:28:50.86 –> 00:28:56.150
with a five mil spacing and touch any

517
00:28:54.04 –> 00:29:01.390
other box

518
00:28:56.15 –> 00:29:04.610
and there we go and we’ve removed the

519
00:29:01.39 –> 00:29:07.700
absolute and we put it back to current

520
00:29:04.61 –> 00:29:11.330
position so that I can specify this

521
00:29:07.7 –> 00:29:13.460
starting point for the head on the

522
00:29:11.33 –> 00:29:16.610
material that have available and I can

523
00:29:13.46 –> 00:29:18.770
also lift it off the deck on my spaces

524
00:29:16.61 –> 00:29:20.840
for cutting so that it doesn’t actually

525
00:29:18.77 –> 00:29:25.420
mark the back so I’ll just put my

526
00:29:20.84 –> 00:29:31.480
spacers my standoffs towards the corners

527
00:29:25.42 –> 00:29:36.530
because these acrylic we want nice white

528
00:29:31.48 –> 00:29:38.540
characters but we don’t want white

529
00:29:36.53 –> 00:29:40.400
spilled around the outside of the

530
00:29:38.54 –> 00:29:44.420
characters and the logos and the letters

531
00:29:40.4 –> 00:29:46.490
so we’ve left the covering on now with a

532
00:29:44.42 –> 00:29:48.860
fairly complicated shape like this

533
00:29:46.49 –> 00:29:51.380
butterfly it’s a little bit of a pain to

534
00:29:48.86 –> 00:29:54.080
take the pieces off afterwards but if

535
00:29:51.38 –> 00:29:57.410
you’re doing it beforehand so you

536
00:29:54.08 –> 00:30:00.160
haven’t got to do it on the day all of a

Transcript for Laser Job Positioning and Virtual Arrays (Cont…)

537
00:29:57.41 –> 00:30:02.590
sudden it becomes easy

538
00:30:00.16 –> 00:30:04.690
because you can do this in your spare

539
00:30:02.59 –> 00:30:06.940
time so you want to get as much of this

540
00:30:04.69 –> 00:30:09.210
preparation work done as you possibly

541
00:30:06.94 –> 00:30:09.210
can

542
00:30:12.0 –> 00:30:15.130
[Music]

543
00:30:17.32 –> 00:30:23.490
so there we are engrave and cut using

544
00:30:20.23 –> 00:30:23.490
the virtual array

545
00:30:25.95 –> 00:30:31.489
so what I’ve now done

546
00:30:28.58 –> 00:30:34.700
I’ve sellotaped a piece of material onto

547
00:30:31.489 –> 00:30:36.979
the table it could be any material it

548
00:30:34.7 –> 00:30:38.629
doesn’t have to be the same material and

549
00:30:36.979 –> 00:30:41.779
what we’re going to do now from the same

550
00:30:38.629 –> 00:30:44.539
file we just suppress the butterfly

551
00:30:41.779 –> 00:30:46.519
layer and the text layer and the only

552
00:30:44.539 –> 00:30:50.349
layer that’s left is the cut layer take

553
00:30:46.519 –> 00:30:50.349
this down to five millimetres

554
00:30:52.7 –> 00:30:57.440
okay so we can set our origin now at

555
00:30:55.129 –> 00:30:59.960
that point there press the origin button

556
00:30:57.44 –> 00:31:01.460
under no circumstances touch the origin

557
00:30:59.96 –> 00:31:06.279
button again now I’ve suppressed

558
00:31:01.46 –> 00:31:06.279
everything except the cut layer

559
00:31:10.04 –> 00:31:18.310
but pull a piece of tape up backing like

560
00:31:12.89 –> 00:31:18.310
that I should be able to lift it out

561
00:31:19.35 –> 00:31:25.770
now drop that one in I’m going to put

562
00:31:23.19 –> 00:31:29.130
the red layer back on which is the text

563
00:31:25.77 –> 00:31:32.250
layer these output for the cut layer no

564
00:31:29.13 –> 00:31:34.559
I don’t want it to cut again all I want

565
00:31:32.25 –> 00:31:36.539
is the red layer so everything is

566
00:31:34.559 –> 00:31:39.030
perfectly lined up I can move the

567
00:31:36.539 –> 00:31:41.850
drawing around in our D works it makes

568
00:31:39.03 –> 00:31:44.760
no difference because I’ve got current

569
00:31:41.85 –> 00:31:47.640
set and current is always from this

570
00:31:44.76 –> 00:31:49.740
corner of the work so provided that

571
00:31:47.64 –> 00:31:51.900
don’t move the origin point on the

572
00:31:49.74 –> 00:31:52.590
machine here it will always start at

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573
00:31:51.9 –> 00:32:07.369
this point

574
00:31:52.59 –> 00:32:07.369
[Music]

575
00:32:10.33 –> 00:32:16.109
and here we go we put the next one in

576
00:32:12.839 –> 00:32:16.109
press run

577
00:32:31.41 –> 00:32:37.100
and then while that’s going on I can be

578
00:32:34.32 –> 00:32:37.100
peeling this off

579
00:32:54.48 –> 00:32:57.849
[Music]

580
00:32:58.08 –> 00:33:01.760
and provided it’s not clear

581
00:33:07.71 –> 00:33:13.820
and provided it’s not clear material I

582
00:33:10.05 –> 00:33:13.820
can give it a puff of isopropyl alcohol

583
00:33:21.09 –> 00:33:26.879
and quickly give it a nice shine well

584
00:33:25.83 –> 00:33:29.399
here we are at the end of another

585
00:33:26.879 –> 00:33:31.919
session I hope some of that will be of

586
00:33:29.399 –> 00:33:34.730
use to you so until the next time

587
00:33:31.919 –> 00:33:34.730
cheerio

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