Hi, Guys
I'm new at the engraving business. I'm starting a small business with my mother in law (trying to help her) and the first thing I need to learn is how to engrave two o three lines of text on a 1 1/2 by 3 inches piece of alluminum plate.
I've been reading from you guys about how to accomplish this. First, I'll get my machine ( CNC Router on my desk) in one more week and I know I have to get Mach3 to run it. The seller sent me a file to place it into Mach3. To me it sound like a pre-made profile, according to what I'm reading, don't believe me. Mach3 allows you to download a version with limited features, but I've been told it does many things in demo mode.
The next thing I'm supposed to get is a program that allows me to create those text lines and save them as certaing kind of file format. I would have to import this file from Mach3 and send it to the engraving machine.
CorelDraw is supposed to be a good sofware to create and properly format the text file to be engraved.
Now... Please, tell me what do I need to know to do this "simple" task?