Trotec Training

[Brian J Rogalny]

Nice job Steve, never thought about setting up like that.

[Tony saunders]

… stop fighting it and change to the metric system guys!…. you have 10 fingers and toes (unless you have worked in a wood mill )

I still go into some shops here and have guys telling me that I need to use some Whitworth or other thread size from the 1800's … and I suffered nothing but verbal abuse when I visited Tormach and had the temerity to mention a millimetre … thought I was going to be hung !!

go metric - it's easy peasy lemon squeezy LOL

[Mike Null]

Steve

Another well done!

That will save me some time on every job for two of my customers who repeat like orders monthly.

[Scott Shepherd]

Thanks Mike! I'm really glad to see it helped you! There's just so much power in the Trotec Job Control system. Power that I think most people don't even know exists. My guess is most people running them are just doing things the same way every time because it's all the know. Hopefully through these videos we can expand the knowledge and get a lot of people using a lot more features, which makes us all move forward. If our "Superuser" group gets larger and larger, then we can give better feedback and feature requests that will help all of us.

[Scott Shepherd]

Are these clips helpful to many? If so, I'll do some more. If not that's okay too. Looks like they are being viewed a fair amount but not much feedback so far.

If anyone has anything specific they want done, let me know and I'll see if I can accomplish that.

[Tony Lenkic]

Scott,

I have viewed clips and you have done great job so far. You are correct in saying that most operators use same steps on most jobs because they are used certain steps and it works for them.
Your tip on "POSITION JOB MULTIPLE" is one I can use in many setups I run. No need to do multiple plates in Corel or Xenetech if data is same on all of them.

One thing I would like to see is how do you setup machine to engrave bitmap images (pictures and bitmap logos ).

Thank you for clips and the effort you put in producing them. I look forward to more of the same.

BTW, do you print form XGW to Trotec laser?

[Mike Null]

Steve

You're the spittin' image of Festus.

[Greg W Watson]

I wish I had seen this prior to banging my head against the wall last year figuring it out on my own

[Mike Null]

Wouldn't have helped. It wasn't posted until March of this year.

[John Warren]

Are these clips helpful to many? If so, I'll do some more. If not that's okay too. Looks like they are being viewed a fair amount but not much feedback so far.

If anyone has anything specific they want done, let me know and I'll see if I can accomplish that.

They were helpful for me to watch. I don't have a laser yet, but am looking to buy a Trotec towards the end of the month. It's hard for me to know specifically what to ask for you to cover since I haven't had a chance to dig into the software myself yet.

[shawn m reed]

I've got another video uploading at the moment. Not my finest work, but hopefully it'll add to what we discussed in the last video. I'll post it here as soon as it finishes uploading. This time around was filled with computer related glitches during it all, like my mouse buttons not working right, shift keys not working, etc. Sorry about all of that. I have to plug in a mouse with a scroll wheel to make Corel work right on my Mac and it's just not something I use at all, so no matter what I do, it's wrong the first time (oh, and the second time too).

Steve...just got my Speedy 400 a couple weeks ago, and it's in the shop with exhaust finally hooked up, and I'm watching your videos. As you mentioned Parallels, I just wanted to see if you'd had any issues with running all of the Trotec software (jobcontrol & coreldraw) in parallels....I've got a mac pro (it's a few years old, but has 48gb of ram and a 2.66 quad-core xeon processor, so I'm pretty sure it can handle the processing power). I'd prefer not to pick up another computer just to run the laser, but my rep said I'd have problems running everything in parallels.

Thanks a lot for your videos...they're doing a lot to give me an idea of how things work and what I want to ask my rep before he shows up for training.

[Mick A Martin]

GREAT video Scott ... very useful and thanks for taking the time to make and post it I can at least cut something now.

Could I ask for a request .... could you explain about cutting 3D, I understand how to create a 8 bit image. but how do you load it into Job Control X?

[Tamsyn Michael]

Thanks a lot Scott - just downloading the video now. We have the same laser, and a lot of issues, so fingers cross it helps.

[john passek]

I hope you continue to ad more videos, I have learned more from the first two than I did on my training day. it's hard to find good quality training videos that go into detail of how to do certain things.
Thanks for all the time you spent putting them online.
John

[Mayo Pardo]

I appreciate the videos Steve - seeing how other people set up work flow can save a lot of time if we're doing things in a less efficient way. Saving a job file with just one piece compared to saving multiple jobs with various quantities of the same piece can save a bunch of file space too.

This week I should be receiving my (used) Speedy 300. Having never done any laser engraving or cutting I suspect I will be full of obvious newbie questions. I've already been asking advice on setting up the machine and ducting etc, so I can get things prepped prior to the big delivery.

What limitations will I have with only 30 watts?

Speed and power settings are going to be a new concept again. Last time I learned about it was when I burned up wood and broke bits until I figured out what I could or couldn't do on my Shopbot. At least with the laser I won't break any bits.

I'm very familiar with creating design files for CNC cutting so at least I'm not coming into this totally blind.
Trotec Job Control software will be completely new to me but I have some experience with Corel and other sign design software.

This is going to be an exciting month for me! Hopefully not too frustrating. Learning a new software can always be challenging (for me) if it's not designed with an intuitive user interface or if the steps to accomplish a given task are not clear.

Any suggestions for what kinds of materials to practice on while learning?