Hi everyone,
I just finished doing a job for a customer, and it was larger than the table size of my laser, which is 24" x 18". The part was 20" x 28". The way I did it was to first put the exact size of the part in on the workspace in corel 12. Then I put in the vectored image exactly centered on the workspace. Then I laserd out the vectored image almost to the full width of the laser table. I stopped where there was a break in the image. I turned the part around and put the bottom half of the part (which has not been laserd) on to the laser grid. I then I send a 2nd job to the laser with the bottom part of the image, which I turned around 180 degrees in corel. This 2nd job I only do part of the image which is right next to the area of where the first job ended so I don't need to do the full half of the job and I do it at low power and 200 d.p.i. And before I start lasering I put a piece of paper taped down to the part, and only engrave the paper. I allways have to move the image in Corel a few times to get every thing to line up(this is where it takes me some time) with the 1st half of the part. Some times if I get nervious that I might accidently burn into the wood I put a piece of thin 24 gauge metal between the wood and the paper above it. Then once everything looks like it is lined up I take offf the paperand send a 3rd job to the laser and finish the last half of the part. So any input from fellow creekers on some possible ways to do it better? Or faster? whould be helpful.