Hey All,
Another new guy... who's read almost every post in the forum in the last few months while saving for a machine. Learned enough to not burn the house down so far. Ended up with a Boss 1416 60W. Been cutting and engraving some cheap birch ply for a couple days and it's going pretty well considering the editing limitations of the RD Works Software. Was recommended to get Corel X6 by the folks at Boss. Been watching Corel tutorials on Youtube and have at least a grasp of what's involved. Right now I"m just using fairly decent graphics from the net and having fun.
So anyway, if you were to start all over again... What sort of structured approach would you recommend? On the hardware side of things I'm thinking maybe take a day or two to dial in my settings on different substrates and engrave/cut a power/speed model for each.
Software wise I would imagine it's taking baby steps and increasing complexity. The other possibility is just winging it on whatever challenge I stumble into.
Any/all advice appreciated.