User manual

Step by Step Operation 43

With your finger at the bottom of the nose cone, loosen the cutter knob set screw and lower the cutter

so that the cutting tip extends below the bottom of the nose cone by approximately 1/4 inch (6 mm).

Then tighten the cutter knob set screw.

Turn the machine's power switch on. Set up the job you would like to engrave in the Vision Software

(for an example job, please refer to the following section). Place the material on the t-slot table. There

is no need to adjust the Z-Axis height of the machine (also known as Set Surface). In this type of

engraving, the Proximity Sensor will automatically sense when the cutter tip contacts the material and

will adjust the Z-Axis height and cutting pressure. Also, the spindle does not need to rotate. The

material selection (shown in the next section) will preset the engraver to turn the spindle rotation off and

turn the proximity sensor on.

4.1.1 Example Job 1 - Diamond Drag

In this first example, Diamond Drag engraving will be performed on a 3" x 2" plate. The material used for

this example application is black painted aluminum.

Starting with a new file in Vision Express 9 software, the first step is to adjust the plate size to match the

plate to be engraved.

Click on the Plate Size icon.