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what software would i use engraving software?
guys im looking at expanding my business to do engraving and was just wondering what sort of software would work best in different situations, we want to do general engraving but we also want to do foil blocks and lazer cut 16mm mdf/ply to make dies out of both being for the printing industry
i was thinking of corel draw, autodesk autocad and autodesk inventor
would these work???thanks in advance
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Firstly one machine will not fullfill both your requirements
You would need at least a 100-200W large field CO2 laser to do the die boards and would need either a small robust overhead gantry type engraver or a small computerised mill to do the foil block (easier to etch)
I would start out with a 30-50W co2 laser and see where it goes from there.
Heres a good article I wrote that will give you some idea what you could do with a laser like that.
http://www.engravingetc.org/forum/messa … msg=1617.1
For what you want to do , you would need Coreldraw for the laser and a program like Artcam , Mastercam or the like for the foils. The laser works in the XY plane and the mills will work in the xyz plabe and the software used to drive them requires some serious toolpath stategies so thus must be able to run the machine and generate the toolpaths , acad cant do that.
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