Double sided engraving help please

[Stephen Henderson]

What type of engraving machine and software do you use ?

[Graeme Harrold]

Use double sided tape and fit them in neat rows to another piece of material to form a grid (depending on machine size). If you do for example a 10×10 grid and they are exactly 25mm each then the overall dimension should be 250mm

Then set up a template in your software to replicate the physical layout and get engraving. Hopefully they have a pre drilled hole to aid with alignment………

Ive just done 130 x 35mm tags, all with different info front and rear……….. :lol1: it worked a treat!

[John Hughes]

hi Stevie – we have a Suregrave m/c 400mm x 600mm bed size & running using their software surelab.

Hi Graeme – sounds good but would that work with circles ?

cheers
John

[Graeme Harrold]

As long as they form a grid then yes. If in doubt, Get a piece of scrap ally and engrave a 25mm grid, run tape down the center run of the boxes (only 1 direction required) and use the grid to line up the discs. The first horizontal, and vertical are the ones to get spot on, the rest will just butt into place….

If you are going to do loads of these in the future, get a template made. Get a firm to punch a grid out that will accept the tags, then sandwich some sticky engraving sheet in with another rigid backing sheet.