I need a solution

[Zlatko Kursar]

Hello,

i will try to explain on my poor english what I need.

I have to engrave text on a thousands of plates with different sizes, with different number of rows.
I do this that I write text in Corel and then export to Artcam. In Artcam I set position of every plate to coordinate 0,0 and then make pathtool.
Then I save pathtool for every single plate. This is very slow procedure.

Does anyone know for the better solution?

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[Mike Heidrick]

Id research fixturing and offsets. Each plate should have a spot. Using a G offset will engrave each plate in its spot.

[Scott Shepherd]

Are you engraving them on the lasers? If so, which laser? That's the perfect job for lasering and you don't need to do anything in artcam.

[Zlatko Kursar]

My costumer need deep engraving and I do it with my CNC router. I made a vise for that job and I always make one plate at the time. X,Y zero is on center of plates.

[Gary Campbell]

Zlatko...
You may wish to look into the Plate Production feature in Vectric's VCarve Pro or Aspire if ArtCAM does not have it.

[Ross Moshinsky]

Vectic's plate feature will work, I honestly don't know how well. I haven't looked seriously at the Vectric option. We use Gravostyle which has a similar feature. The good thing about the Gravostyle software is I can set text length and use a variable and it will automatically condense the text. It's software designed for engraving so it would probably be the best software to program this. I think you'd be shocked how quickly it can setup this job. I believe Engravelab offers a similarly efficient way of doing things.

As for the rest of the job, you're going to want to standardize things as much as possible. Having 50 different setups for 1 style of plate will be overwhelming. A job like this is already a complete grind. Having a nightmare of a setup will just make the job a complete burden. For example, for Plate Style A, make 4 templates. 1 line, 2 line, 3 line, and 4 line. Then insert your variable data and let the software do the hard work.

[Gary Campbell]

Take a peek at the feature and learn how it works here: http://support.vectric.com/tutorials...ction_PRO.html