First engraving test :)

[Davek0974]

Had a play with engraving tonight, most impressed :) The more i mess about with my machine the more i like it.

No idea of the proper way to do it so i used SheetCams' built in text tool and used a lump of scrap ally.

Tool was a 1/8" 90 degree carbide bit that was given to me a while back, i guessed 24,000 rpm, 165mm/min feed and 65mm/min ramp in.

DOC was 0.2mm in two passes of 0.1mm having no idea of correct depths.

Result looked really nice - 96mm long



Close-up...



So, what is the 'correct' set up for this as i can see uses here ;)
Are there better tools?
Better feed-rates?
A correct DOC?

Fun stuff ;)