Engraving small lettering.

[wganders]

When I engrave with MC, I use contour with the comp turned off, select the lettering with a window, and use a carbide center drill (0 or 1) at about .002/.003 deep.

[cadcam]

wganders, all ready in the video as one way to engrave.
I also use a a engraving tool from Micro100 one sided spade cutter with 60 deg to a point.

(Also when you did the pocketing way of cutting the letters how come you did not check island pocketing in pocketing options or is that not needed?) Because I did not have diffrent hight ilands standing so need.

[cncboss6]

Hello, I use a no 1 or a no 2 centerdrill. I create the letters then us modify, window and drag them where you want them. I have done alot of engraving, just change the size of the centerdrilll and the depth. I also use windows fonts to get the nice lettering. They are actully true type fonts which you need alot of machine memory for becaus ethey are splines. Pat