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1. program will calculate accurate toolpath Choose Island or Hatch fill and the desired overlap and hatching angle if using hatch fill You must assign a tool to the color black Knowing the geometry of the tool the software will accurately calculate the 2D fill Simply select the color first and then double click on the tool in the Available tools window You see the numeric values of the tool parameters in the gray boxes above the Available tools window This tool color association is stored with this job Click on the Machining Mecanisation tab The black tool Tool 0 should still be selected on the right The tool s specific machining properties are set in this dialog Lul speeds spindle enable w tool pause etc Taai i ima Vai Select the X Y and Z Mal speeds by clicking on Bi the speed o meter Fach time it is clicked the red speed indicator co Corea moves to the next speed low mid high One more click cycles back to low to start the sequence again g New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial 5 16 Holding the cursor over the meter pops up the actual speed value You can over ride the default speeds by clicking on the rabbit icon and entering your own values The text box under the meters is the engraving depth for this tool The button under the depth is the dwell time Using this is optional depending on the material used The dwell time is the time the spin
2. horizontally centered Cut and remove the line through VALVE Step 8 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 11 h Lesson 16 Sign with Long Plate Option This tutorial will show you how to engrave a sign larger than the engrave area of your machine It also contains detailed instructions on the use of the mirror tools in the Transformation toolbox HAPPY 60 BIRTHDAY NEWHERMES Define the material for a long plate operation 2D fills of text Placing ornamental borders Mirror copying Setting tool properties Setting machining properties Panelizing the job Engraving one or all panels Design Specifications File longplate vnd Material Size 24W x 6H Text lines 1 amp 2 1 5 character height center justified Arial font Creating the Design The design is a simple 2D filled text sign with some ornamentation It will be designed as a wide plate but actually engraved as a tall plate Step 1 Choose the Engraving Machine For this tutorial we will use the IS400 engraver This will ensure activation of the long plate mode for the size material we are using Whenever you specify a material size larger than the default machine area you are prompted to either create the long plate or allow the program to adjust the material to the default size If the IS400 machine is not already the default then select or add it now It s OK to a
3. GREENVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION Don t worry that the text is condensed It will be spaced out after being placed on an arc Hit Enter for a new line Type the words Eastern Division Enter Next change the character height to 0 35 and type Champions Then at a character height of 0 5 and using the SCRIPT 2L font type New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial The Panthers Here s our progress so far see figure right Now we will put the first line of text on an arc Click anywhere on the first baseline Click on the Text on an arc icon on the GREENVILLE SOCCER ASSOGA TION Blue pinwheel Click Yes on the next Easiesn Drv cio dialog to activate Manual mode Enter the CNamoplicns parameters as shown in this Text on arc FE CA aarin dialog That is set radius to 2 5 with text u above arc Accept the default X Y origin below The cursor should be at the beginning of the arc text line If not hit the Home key Select all the gt arc text by pressing Shift and End together E JS Su _L_ Change the Character width by editing the text box on the green pinwheel to 125 Fa EE sm ESCE JS T x E m Now we will reposition the center of the bottom three lines of text to the arc center Click on the Select mode icon Drag a i horizontal guideline down until it touches the ends hami of the arc text Drag a vertical guideline to the Tis Baas FARA vertical center at X 3 a ae Create a rec
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5. Lesson 14 WYSIWYRE Step 2 Viewing toolpath in WYSIWYRE cont d ravoStyle 98 A cut the rest This job uses a 0 030 Gravoply tool for the bold letters and a 0 010 Gravoply tool for the thin letters WYSIWYRE is a tool to help you can see if your chosen tool s yields the desired effect If the chosen tool is too large you can have overlapping letters If the tool is too small you will see undesired spaces in the letters TO VO Change the cutting width from the pull down menu Tools gt Engraving width or click the iS icon until you are satisfied with the results WYSIWYRE only lets you change the cutting width for the entire job Therefore if the job uses more than one tool exit WYSIWYRE change the tools in GravoStyle 98 and then return to WYSIWYRE ere usiayre 2 Plex Matte for Surface Engraving ref 400 224 Step oi Selecting the s File Materials Tools View Window Help material in WYSIWYRE Plex surface k of mad ar Select a material from the pull down menu or by clicking an icon on the main toolbar Plex sub surface Li Architectural gauge Gravoply You can select any material that Gravoply Il New Hermes Inc offers Gravopl Il Metallex Gravoply Woods Metallex Gravoply Granites Gravoply O20 amp 040 Isravonly decni Gravoply Il Tech Patterns New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Step 4 Change the fill color i
6. this line spacing ELE ln This is the default line spacing mode for a new job The Click on the 4 corner holes icon Proportional Line Spacing Enter 5 for distance from corners in each text box default spacing ratio is 75 This means that the line space between the top of the ascending letters and the Click OK preceding base line is 75 of the character height At a value of 0 the tops of the ascenders touch the previous baseline as shown Step 8 Save your work Typographic Line Spacing Use one of several ways to Save shown hz 100 00 gt on page 4 9 This spacing mode averages the text height of two successive lines It accounts for both ascenders and descenders in its calculations At 0 the tops of the ascenders just touch the 0 Line Spacing 100 Line Spacing descenders on the previous line The default spacing in this mode is 100 FF ssf sf Fixed Line Spacing With fixed line spacing a constant value is specified for the distance between successive baselines In these examples the text height is 1 AUT gprs Line Spacing 0 Line Spacing 1 New Hermes GravosStyle 98 Tutorial 4 25 Lesson 3 Simple Plaque Simple Plaque Summary Step 1 Open a new file and set material dimensions Set plaque dimensions to 6 width by 8 height with automatic borders Step 2 Enter Text Click on the Center Justify Select the FUTURA 3L font from the Gravograph font folder Enter Type
7. type PROFESSIONAL BUILDING We will design the street number using vertical text Click anywhere in the material A Click on the Vertical text icon e The Vertical text dialog prompts you for the start New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 41 DISCOVERY OK Type 2200 Now we ll place this in the center of the ellipse Click on the Select tool Click on the vertical text to select it Click al to open the transformation toolbar Click on the move object tool cy Click once in the center of the selected vertical text When you move the cursor the selection moves relative to its center Now to place it in the center of the ellipse hit F4 and select the Gravity center snap Click OK Hover the cursor over any point along the curve of the ellipse When you see the red hint symbol in the center of the ellipse click once to place the selection You can resize the text if desired by dragging the object s handles Let s add the address Click on the text icon to go back to text mode Click in an unused area of the design to deselect the street number text If you neglect this step you will put the previously selected text in a text box object Click on the Text box tool A Hit F3 and choose Snap to Guideline again Create the text box in the lower left corner of the design under the ellipse Change character height to 2 and type Northmont Pkwy Duluth GA 30022 The software automatically compresses
8. Enable disable tool pause e Set dwell time e Choose additional passes if required Select axis SWap if required Edit Z lift Choose Test and Run to make sure engraving is in the engraver area On the engraving machine e Clamp the material e Use a depth regulating nose cone Put the cutter in the spindle e Set Z ref e Adjust the engraving depth with the nose cone micrometer e Make sure the machine LCD reads Ready To Receive Step 6 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 54 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 55 4 56 DI PDISCOVERY Lesson 7 Simple Matrix This lesson demonstrates the simplicity and speed of generating a matrix Objectives Use matrix Design Specifications Filename Simple Matrix vnd Material Size 8 x 6 1st text line HELVETICA 1L 0 15 char height Matrix size 3 x 2 elements Creating the Design This design is intentionally trivial to allow you to concentrate on the matrix function But you could use matrix with a design as complex as desired Step 1 Open a New File and Set Dimensions Open a new file and set the job dimensions to 1 5 wide by 5 high Make all the margins 0 SL m 1 ETA i Mpp pio coc Gb ae pit by ib batt ce AF Les fomos Fight Im Emin Emir pman che tec Step 2 Design Type in the text GravoStyle98 in the HELVETICA 1L font at a 15 character height New Hermes
9. Reverse engraving Select laser driver Choose printer options Setup job in laser engraver Design Specifications File Advanced Laser Plaque vnd Material Size 4 x 4 Text lines 41 amp 2 0 35 character height center justified Arial font Creating the Design Like the Simple Laser Plaque this design is simple consisting of two lines of text There is a box around the second line for the reverse engraving And there is a border engraved near the material edges The text is filled raster engraved while the border is not filled vector engraved Step 1 Define the plate size Open a new file and set the plate size to 4 x 4 Accept the default margins and click OK New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 93 4 94 Lesson 13 Advanced Laser Engraved Plaque Using Vectorization Option Step 2 Create the Job Hit F12 and set the character height to 0 35 Choose center justification and select Arial font Enter to accept Type GravoStyle 98 on the first line Enter to start a second line of text and type 98 on the second line Click on the Manual mode icon N and accept the warning This separates the two lines of text into two separate text objects Click on the Shape toolbox icon and select the Create rectangle tool Draw a small rectangle around the 98 and another larger rectangle near the edges of the material Don t worry about alignment yet We will use GravoStyle98 s powerful alig
10. e Select the rectangle first then select the upper left and right corner ornaments Click TO tl to force the selected ornaments flush to the top of the rectangle e Deselect the objects Click the rectangle and then the two rightmost ornaments Click to force the selected ornaments flush to the right of the rectangle 3 Using the mirror copy along an axis method Place a lower left corner ornament as described in Method 1 above Convert it to curves Select the ornament On the Transformation toolbox Al Click on Move object Hit F3 for snaps and select Control point Click OK Move the cursor near the lower left corner of the ornament until you see the small red hint circle Click once to start moving the object Hit F2 for the absolute point positioning dialog Enter 0 3 in both the X and Y boxes Click OK The ornament is now located precisely Click on the Marker tool i in the Shapes toolbox Hit F2 and enter X 12 and Y 1 to place a marker Press F2 again again enter 12 and 4 for X and Y Press F2 and enter 1 and 3 And finally press F2 and enter 4 and 3 These markers represent the axes that will be used for mirror copying IIHI TETE MEIT I l First select the ornament Then while holding the Control key drag a selection box around the two vertical markers Now hold the Shift key The Shift key is usually associated with a copy operation Click on the Mirror along axis tool mirrorOnAxisIcon bmp The ornament
11. open the Guideline Dialog Box Position the following guidelines Vertical guideline at 2 5 Horizontal guidelines at 0 75 1 5 and 4 5 Step 3 Create And Place Graphical Elements Using the guidelines place an ellipse CI in the left center of the material as per the design graphic image above Click the arrow icon A then choose to create and place an orthogonal arrow in the bottom right section of the material This is an artistic expression Try different types shapes and sizes of arrows Step 4 Create And Place Text Elements Using the Text in a Rectangle tool al create and place PROFESSIONAL BUILDING along the top of the material in the CLARENDON 3L font at 0 5 character height A Using the Vertical Text tool 8 type the street number Position this number in the center of the ellipse using snaps and resize as required This is also in the CLARENDON 3L font at 0 5 character height by default Again Using the Text in a Rectangle tool create and place the address in the lower left corner of the design as per the finished design graphic Add another Text in a Rectangle to the right of the ellipse with the names and suite numbers of the tenants Step 5 Final Tweaking Resize the tenants text and arrow Add a rectangle around the tenants Step 6 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 43 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 44 ISCOVERX Lesson 6 Tool Managemen
12. 25 high in US BLOCK 1L font with baseline at the 2 5 4 5 Type LEFT center justified at 0 1 high in US BLOCK 1L font with baseline at the 2 0 4 25 Type RIGHT center justified at 0 1 high in US BLOCK 1L font with baseline at the 3 0 4 25 Type MASTER center justified at 0 1 high in US BLOCK 1L font with baseline at the 4 0 4 25 Type 12345 center justified at 0 1 high in US BLOCK 1L font with baseline at the 2 50 3 25 Put Text on arc of 0 25 radius Change the intercharacter spacing to 200 Duplicate the square and circle with arc text so that the center of the circle is placed at 5 5 3 25 Duplicate the text LEFT and RIGHT so that the intersection between the two circles beneath the text is placed at 5 5 4 0 New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 9 h Lesson 15 Control Panel Using Vectorization Option Step 5 Envelope Fit to Shape From the Symbol library ah select the arc envelope symbol arc syb Place it near the M in the word MASTER and resize it to approximately 1 square Convert the text MASTER CONTROL into curves Select the letter M and the envelope symbol in that order and click on the Envelope function Delete the envelope Step 6 Welding Overlap the distorted M and the A in MASTER and join Step 7 Final touches Create and align a 7 by 0 03 rectangle under the words MASTER CONTROL Align MASTER CONTROL
13. Click on the Setup command button on the Print dialog Choose the appropriate laser engraver from the pull down list see figure right If your laser engraver is not on this list you must go back and install it from the disk provided with the machine Refer to the instructions in the laser engraver manual also provided with the machine Lars meds reg pag Paid giro Mi em Choose Landscape orientation Click on the Properties command button In the Printer Properties Dialog left click on the 1 black color property item Select the power and speed appropriate for the material to s tido tyre al be engraved Click Set Make sure that Clipart meg Mode is unchecked The PPI and DPI settings are il your choice You need only set the properties for Lm ter black since our design uses only this color New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 88 Step 4 Setup to Engrave cont d In the Pen Mode field on the left side and vector raster only vector only or sequence through these choices with each click on the square For now the state of this setting is of no consequence since GravoStyle 98 is in Wire contours view Click the Engraving Field tab in this dialog right Change the Width and Height fields to 4 each to match the actual plate dimensions Choose Landscape to raster left and right Portrait orientation would be selected to raster up and down Since the line of text is l
14. GravoStyle 98 Tutorial di E Click on the Matrix icon eim in the blue vane of the text pinwheel On the Matrix dialog shown click in the grid and drag to the include the total number of elements desired in the matrix Alternatively enter the number of rows X and columns Y in the text boxes We will make a 3 by 2 matrix Enter 0 15 for the space between the matrix elements Also enter 25 in the offset text box to allow a border for clamping Set the axis cutting to None This specifies if or how the matrix elements are cut The Total width and height parameters are the default engraving table dimensions The software limits the maximum number of elements that will fit within these total limits Teal ici 2000 05 Tata Fatah FE i Da Click OK Here s how the material looks with no cuts between the matrix elements New Hermes GravoStyle V98 Tutorial 4 57 DISCOVERY Lesson 7 Simple Matrix Tech Note Approaches to Axis Cutting There are two other approaches to Axis cutting If Partial axis cutting is selected it would look like this If All full axis cutting is selected it would look like this There are various ways to order the plates on the material When Optimization is set to None you manually select this order by clicking on the appropriate icon in the Presentation section lower right corner of the Matrix dialog The arrows refer to the engraving direction which
15. Longplate3 bmpand then click the Insert command button Shortcut double click the font symbol to select and insert If you do not have the Ornament font it is a purchased option you can create your own simple corner ornament For example create two overlapping boxes like the figure to the right Go into Select mode If the Cursor is not locked you see this icon cursorUnlockedIcon bmp on the status bar Click on it now to lock it cursorLockedIcon bmp Drag the corner ornament flush against the lower left margin Convert this corner ornament to curves Open the Transformation toolbox 4 While pressing the Shift key click on the Horizontal Erg mirror tool to create a mirrored copy n above the object previously selected Control click on the original object so both the original and newly created objects are selected While pressing the Shift key click on the Vertical mirror tool Now you have all four corner ornaments created Simply drag each corner ornament to its appropriate corner fitting each snugly against the borders 2 Using the align to box method If you performed Method 1 above Undo until you see the four border ornaments New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial touching one another as in the picture just above this sentence Otherwise create the four touching border ornaments as described above Create a rectangle object fitted to the inside of the material border Open the Alignment toolbox E
16. Numbers and text can be mixed in a job with other graphical design elements to any degree of complexity required This lesson will show you how to combine multiple variables typical of data output from a database Jee Drac eh TES Tachre al Support l af Teang hes Eregi fin 1 FA Terry Gray Ted inside Sales A ea Le 7 O gh i Fa Scott Clark ar Sales Ragresenialive os La Roger Williams Peki Servite lo a Objectives Matrix with combined variable list and serialization Design Specifications Plate size 3 by 2 Material size 6 by 8 1 j Tal Slave Caldi Doerglions E te al e Jum Sandels a Ta Field Servico i Ea Les r ermine d po Tony Walraven 475 Field Service ai Erie E F 4 Loua Caldo 457 Fild Sanit Te LI a Em J I a 4 Erp Ist amp 2nd lines US BLOCK 1L 0 15 char height 3rd amp 4th lines blank 5th line US BLOCK 1L 0 1 char height Filename complex matrix vnd Creating the Design The master plate consists of several variables A list of names will be imported from a file Numbers will be generated by the serialization routine The general approach is listed below New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial i NSCOVERY Lesson 10 Complex Matrix Design Putting It All Together Define the master plate size Set default text attributes e Add the variables Import data Compose
17. Sales A open aoe 5 Click in the Empl column and Torp aiak aer unid Sam vaca 45 113532 ae Ad fanti aad i click on the Series button Under H Louis Colado Fak aniti ANT 3 Parameters enter 1 for Start and Y Gai Casting Faki Favini el 3 1 io Cocha pales A pas 416 Step and 16 for End Click eats Paid Sos 481 LH Jum Lima Salas A epa apt Preview to see a list of numbers oras apa a from 1 to 16 Click OK to place ld Lee Mach E ale Hepar 440 a 75 Fond Haren Had Sami dl 5 these numbers in the Empl Pe pas F zj column Drag the dialog box wider as required to see all four columns as shown Click End on the Variable dialog New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 72 Step 5 Compose the Master Plate Click on the Select Variable icon wi and select the Name variable from the list Click OK Hit the Tab key to add space Click on the Select Variable icon again and select the Ext variable Click OK Hit enter to move to the second line in the composition Type Employee Add the Department variable Hit enter three times to move to the fifth line in the composition Add the Empl variable Select the text on the fifth line left justify it and change the character height to 0 1 Go into Select mode and click on the Shapes icon Select the star and place a 7 pointed star in the design The master plate should look something like this Step 6 Inspect with Live Data To get an idea how the plate will look with live
18. Step 4 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 64 Matrix with Serialization Summary Step 1 Setup job Open a new file Set the material size to 2 by 0 5 with O margins Edit character height to 0 25 using the Arial font Step 2 Compose the job Type sn N On the blue pinwheel place a numeric variable by clicking on mn Click on the Series button on the Variables dialog Enter 100 1 and 108 for the Start Step and End parameters Click Preview Then click Ok to accept Click End to close the Variables dialog Alter the variable name text NUM1 to italics Step 3 Create the matrix JE Click on the Matrix icon Ei in the blue pinwheel Select a 3 by 3 matrix with 0 25 offset full axis cutting and no optimization Click OK and you re done Well almost Step 4 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle V98 Tutorial 4 65 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 66 MA o A NSCONV ERA Lesson 9 Matrix with Variable List GravoStyle 98 provides the capability to automate text entry on a series of plates These plates can all be on one piece of material or one piece of material per plate Learning Objectives Use automatic mode Use matrix with variable list Design Specifications Plate size 2 by 1 5 Material size 8 by 6 Ist Line Arial 0 3 char height Filename variable list matrix vnd Creating the Design We will start by making a
19. amp Multi line engraver s fonts PhotoStyle New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 1 le n MN Lesson 15 Control Panel Using Vectorization Option 5 2 Objectives Alignment tools Create graphic objects Snaps Manual text placement Force upper case Manual kerning Duplication tools Convert text to curves Welding tools Digitizing tools Envelope distortion Design Specifications Material size 8 w by 6 h There are many graphical design tools available to help create control panels We will use a mixture of tools in this lesson There are as many approaches to the design process as there are designers New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 40H Ls BLO E Lo am LEFT B GLO ELK O A PA 51 10 TT A LO x 10 BOW x SSL a tirar LAB ARAL Creating the Design We will start by placing the guidelines Then we will create the graphic elements followed by the text Finally we will complete the special effects on the logo Step 1 Define the plate Open a new file and set the material dimensions to 8 by 6 Step 2 Create the guidelines Enter Manual mode Click the cursor lock icon to allow the cursor to go outside the material boundary Drag the guidelines from the rulers to the positions indicated in the specification Use the F2 key while dragging to accurately position the guidelines Step 3 Create the graphica
20. baiom in oe o ca New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 62 Now add the text 1998 into the Text after text box and see what happens Another interesting way to use this dialog involves using letters Click on Alphabetic and enter A 1 and I into the Start Step and End text boxes Click Preview Shut fo eek if E TES fo eno POS fim qe F mma Gi F omini menor al ga E digiti Li Tecla I To she TES A And finally here s one more interesting way to use this dialog Enter the parameters as shown below This is how to get the numbers to decrement Also you can make the numbers skip by entering a Step value other than 1 To complete this exercise enter the values as shown below Click Preview to check your work Click OK to accept Click End on the Variables dialog New Hermes GravoStyle V98 Tutorial 4 63 ISCOVERY Lesson 8 Matrix with Serialization Step 2 Composing the job cont d This is how the design looks You can apply attributes to the numeric variable just like any other text Select the text INUM1 and click on the italic icon Enter Step 3 Create a Matrix Now we will create a matrix sE cD Click on the Matrix icon in the blue pinwheel Hr h 4 timc fF 3 CP ol ee L r Spara basse An As shown above select a 3 by 3 matrix with 0 25 offset all axis cutting and no optimization Click Ok Good job
21. data click Y to open the Edit Variable dialog Move the dialog to the bottom of the screen far enough down to expose the composition and yet still see the Show State pull down menu in the dialog Change the Show State value to 1 2 3 and so on to see the actual data This is what the last record looks like New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 73 ERY Lesson 10 Complex Matrix Design Putting It All Together Step 7 Generate the Matrix E Click on the Matrix icon E on the blue pinwheel Select a 2 by 4 matrix by dragging the mouse cursor in the grid Choose Axis Cutting equal to All Click OK to accept The finished example shows one name per plate on one piece of 6 x 8 material Joe Draucek TE Technical n ermplo ya 1 Terry Gray Inside tina CMmplio vee 4 colt Clark 495 sales Represenalive Crip vee 3 o I Roger Willams 444 Field Service Emplo vee 7 Step 8 Save your work 4 74 steve Lalowell EXA Lperalions cra ya 2 Jim Sanders ATA Field Service Employees 4 i Tony Walraven ATE Field Servige Erre E Louis Collado Field une employee E A New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Complex Matrix Design Summary Step 1 Define the plate Set the plate dimensions 3 by 2 with automatic borders Step 2 Set text attributes Set the character height to 0 15 and the font to US Block 1L Step 3 Setup the variables Open the Variable Edit dialog Act
22. each text line and the interline spacing to fit the box Click again in an unused area of the design to deselect the street number text Click on the Text box tool Place the text box below the title and to the right of the ellipse Set the character height to 3 Type M Welby MD hit Tab and type 100 Enter Type B Casey MD hit Tab and type 200 Enter Type T Magnum PI hit Tab and type 300 The Tab character acts as a separator juta Step 5 Final Tweaking PROFESSIONAL BUILDING Click on the Select tool Select the newly o created text box and the arrow We will resize Es M Welby MD 100 these objects to improve their appearance A Casa MD an Drag one of the side handles inward while U T Ma rt um Pl aw holding the Shift key for symmetrical scaling See Tech Note on Page 4 32 Drop the selection when it is at the appropriate size Delcik A e Eu You can add a rectangle around this text as an enhancement Click on the rectangle icon in the shapes toolbar Click and drag around the text Step 6 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 42 Basic Sign Summary Step 1 Open a New File and Set Material Dimensions Set sign dimensions to 8 wide by 6 high Step 2 Place guidelines Change to Manual mode EU Invoke the Material definition dialog Set all margins to 0 25 Change to Select k mode Click drag guidelines then double click them to
23. either rabbit icon to bring up the Machining parameters dialog Foal om per eel as Sposina TVA la eizan TE Hu Send Sp rad LH i Fi Epemi imj fr Mini ia E pl A i ft al ir Fa Speed Z rasa i a Din ZE Simply enter the speeds desired for this job The dwell time can also be set here The Load Default button loads the program default values which can be modified by the user in the Options F10 dialog Don t be concerned about entering too large a value The program s post processor limits the maximum table speed based on the engraver model A V3400 maximum speed is about 1 5 inches sec whereas the IS400 maximum speed is about 2 0 inches sec Under the depth text box is the dwell time icon Successive clicking on this icon allows selection of three different dwell times or none The dwell time defines how New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 49 4 50 JSCOVI RA Step 5 Setup Job for Machining Lesson 6 Tool Management by Color long the tool pauses between a plunge into the material and the subsequent XY movement This should allow the cutter to attain its full rotational speed if it slowed any during its plunge The four icons to the right provide the following preparatory functions Enable Disable spindle rotation You would disable the spindle for use with of a diamond drag operation Trai Enable Disable coolant not used on the engraving equipment Enable Disable an auxiliary output This could be us
24. engraving and end mill cutter definitions Shaft diameter this value is really only useful for calculations made in the Dynamic level Cutting angle this is half the included angle Tip width this is the actual tip diameter The tip width of all New Hermes and Gravograph tools is defined as the width 0 008 above the tip New Hermes GravosStyle 98 Tutorial 4 48 Step 4 Machining or Pass Table On this same dialog click the Machining tab This will allow you to set engraving parameters such as the XY feed and Z plunge rates dwell spindle enable and tool pause Paper Eres Toei Mecenato PE pi ho do Manin Pa a Le i de Carni i Feb Before assigning these attributes you must first select the tool So click on the green tool bar Notice that the depth is already filled in for you You could enter the tool depth in this dialog or the previous tool dialog The x y rabbit allows you to set the XY linear engraving speed for this tool The Z rabbit lets you set the Z plunge rate There are two ways to set the speed The easiest is to click on the speed dial The red dial indicator cycles from left to right as you click on it This sets the speed to slow left mid range middle or fast right You can read the set speed on a pop up when the mouse cursor is resting on the dial The second way to set the speed is to override the default settings of these speeds for this job Click on
25. enter text The text will use the default center justification and Arial font The character height is the only text attribute used and it will be applied after text entry Open a New File Step 1 Open a new file and set material dimensions Leni Ctl N To open a new file click on menu File gt New Click the New File I in the Mai You will be asked for the plate dimensions i as Hi Alt F N dida The width text box will be selected by default the selected text has a blue background Just type the Piski dual 50d hos be width 3 and the selected text will be replaced Ta e eteri om e ee To Ln _ Zani Press Tab to move to the next field ap e PEG E The height text will be selected Type the height 2 Ignore the thickness parameter Tractor rese de cod Click OK to accept You now see a rectangle representing the plate area The dashed lines inside the plate are the margins which are automatically defined by default New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 7 J D y J o FLISCOVER Lesson 1 Beginner Plate Design with Simple Engrave Step 2 Enter The Text Just start typing GravoStyle 98 It will be automatically center justified in the vertical center of the plate Notice that the text position and character spacing are automatically adjusted to fit the text inside the margins We are working in the Automatic Mode In another lesson we will be working in Manual Mode S
26. gos fami pa MAN Ea 1 Click on any of the four corner sp H pas m r Fam E deal aa handles and drag in or out while i De TE paz mmr holding the Shift key i Paganini gt Incremental Scaling Start dragging any Sm handle while holding the Ctl key As the object is stretched its size increments 100 2000 3000 B Enter a width of 9 Hit the Tab key Since the proportional check box is on the height is calculated automatically Click OK or hit Enter to accept 200 Now we will move the object into a precise position Non Proportional Scaling Click and drag any of the four side handles to A ae one side of the object E as i Click on the Transformation Tool icon a in the Toolbox on the left side of horizontally or vertically La the screen This brings up a floating toolbar of Transformation tools Non Proportional Symmetrical Scaling Click and drag any of the four s side handles to symmetrically stretch 2 sides of the object horizontally or vertically New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 32 If this toolbar is obscuring your view click on the caption bar and drag it to another location Click on the Move Icon EL to initiate a move operation Now we must indicate the reference point to start the move Hit F3 to bring up the Snap dialog Sag ug E n mM Fira Ged amd puede Mane ma T Sr dora af Tangeri do Oriago it x 4 ori ana a ok cora Click on
27. is not correct you can experiment using different tool widths Use the cutter width tool Ezi Step 3 Selecting the material in WYSIWYRE Select a material from the pull down menu or by clicking an icon on the main toolbar Step 4 Change the fill color in WYSIWYRE A If desired select a fill color from the pull down menu or by clicking the on the main toolbar Step 5 Change the background color in WYSIWYRE If desired select a background color from the pull down menu or by clicking the icon icon on the main toolbar Step 6 Compare multiple versions of the same job in WYSIWYRE From the pull down menu choose Window gt New window Then choose Window gt Tile You now see a duplicate job Choose the material fill color and background desired for this new window Step 7 Save your Work Press Ctl S to save the file New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 106 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 107 INDUSTRY Plate Composition Text on curve Long Plate Digitizing Functions Alignment functions Duplication functions Fusion Addition Subtraction Offset Segmentation functions Convert to curve Convert to circle Shading Help Functions Group Ungroup Measurement tool Upper Lower Case Import Export Import IGES ISO 2D Export DFX HPGL 2D Options Scanning Vectorizing Filling and 2D tool management Braille Drivers for competing tables Dials and Rulers Single
28. justify text alignment icon This makes all columns left justified You can define the column justification differently for each column Just use the horizontal slide bar to select the column and then click on the alignment desired In the same manner each columns width can be made different Just clear the Same width of columns check box select the column with the horizontal slide bar and enter the width in the Column width text box Pr om a eri U Rip ira prep ta Prg mrar aed Lr Rei La ECC Click Next Notice that the parameters are remembered from the previous method of defining the column object There are some differences The XY position is now referenced to the frame Also you can set the overall width and height of the frame and the wizard will calculate the individual cell width and height based on the number of rows and columns you want Click Next Click Finish and you will be ready to enter text as described in the next step Now we will run through the wizard again using the frame position method Invoke the column wizard There are two ways to invoke the column wizard using an existing column object If you are in text mode place the cursor on any text baseline and click the Column icon EE If you are in point mode double click any object in the column Choose the Frame position method New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 81 DISCOVERY Lesson 11 Plaque
29. material Select the text 98 and the small rectangle surrounding the 98 Click on Vertical E and Horizontal Center He to center the rectangle to the text Step 3 Set up for Raster Engraving i Click on Convert to curves to convert the selected text object to lines and arcs Select the outside border rectangle and click the Point mode icon Click on one of the points Then click on the disconnect icon Drag a selection box around the text 98 and the small black rectangle Click on the Link icon Step 4 Setup to Engrave Select the objects to be engraved using the Select All hotkey Ctl L Click the print icon Click the Setup button in the Print dialog Select the laser engraver from the pull down list Choose Landscape orientation Click on the Properties command button Set the power and speed for your material using the black line item Set a slightly higher power level for the red color which is the design s border Click the Engraving Field tab in this dialog and set the size to 4 by 4 Click OK twice until you see the Print dialog Choose the following settings Print Range Selection Print to File none New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 99 DISCOVERY Lesson 13 Advanced Laser Engraved Plaque Using Vectorization Center none Info none Scale 100 Step 5 Engrave the Job Put your 4 x 4 material in the upper left of the engrave area at the intersection of the t
30. number you use in this step since we have yet to associate the real tool with the WS Tool 2 Tool number the tool Right click on Tool the tool label and you see an edit cursor Edit rear as you wish Here is an example BR 10013 Properties New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 46 Step 3 Tool And Color Association Click on the Properties button located at the bottom of the Machining Tools window This invokes the Tool Property dialog E N fai REGA Fall 2 Figg d Taal Taal h Toal 7 MA Tosi MS Toni i dii iii mito 17 74 On this dialog you associate specific tools with colors You set the engraving depth and the engraving mode center or fill The 2D fill is available as standard in Graphic and Dynamic levels and is available as an option in Discovery and Industry Tool and color association To associate the color and tool first click on the color and then double click on the tool For this example click on the blue Tool 3 and double click on the 030 tool Then click on the green Tool 2 and double click on the 020 tool You can verify the association by first clicking on another color say on the black Tool 0 Then click on the blue Tool 3 Notice that a dashed box surrounds the 030 cutter Click on the green Tool 2 and the dashed box surrounds the 020 cutter Currently this tool and color association is only remembered with the job But in a future release the association can be
31. raster and vector raster only vector Lange Seira Ergorri Fari Grato 30 Etech Posa Pan lod Color Rae ECT DO RaSTAECT RASTMECT RASTA CT RASTAECT HS RASTRECT Dli Ac TAECT RASTAECTO X 5pasd ajl PLEU H fim x im al la la L Fakri usa E Ua pauk PA IC D Clear Pijak D Cares Erdia wm _ im TE e only or skip none for the associated color You sequence through these choices with each click on the square Choose Raster Vector mode Click the Engraving Field tab in this dialog right Change the Width and Height fields to 4 each to match the actual plate dimensions Choose Landscape to raster left and right Portrait orientation would be selected to raster up and down Since the design is longer than higher the motion of the laser will be more efficient in Landscape orientation Click OK twice until you see the Print dialog In Print Range click Selection Uncheck Print to File Center and Info Make sure the scale is 100 By unchecking Center the job will be Lane otro Enguera Pedal Coapa 10 Elect nen aa Scan O prora M fai Elia IT flogao E Load Era Fasti with Heli M mol F pacas 4003 4000 rates feet C pod pri Bos E rh gu Em E ria o do Cia deriso Qui incised CO cs engraved in the upper left corner of the engrave area By unchecking Info the filename will no
32. saved as default for new jobs The next step is to set the depth The depth is the distance the tool drills into the material from the Z reference Zref point set at the engraver You do not associate depth with the tool Depth is associated with color First click on the green tool color bar and enter an engraving depth of 0 01 in depth text box Next click on the blue tool color bar and enter 0 015 in the depth text box The depth parameter should set to zero if you will be setting the depth with the nose cone Note You should use a depth regulating nose unless the material is prone to scratching It does not require a precise Zref adjustment and it provides a constant engraving depth over material with varying thickness Refer to the user s manual delivered with your New Hermes machine to understand how the Zref influences the adjustment of the engraving depth and how to carry out the mechanical adjustment of the engraving depth New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 47 COVERY Lesson 6 Tool Management by Color You can click on the Add Change tools button to add or edit a cutting tool See the Tool Library Tech Note below You are allowed to associate one tool with more than one color This would be useful for example if you set up a job with different colors at different depths or design layers and wanted to use the same tool for multiple depths or design layers Tech Note Tool Library Each tool has to be defi
33. the machine if not using the binary drivers You may see a Too large message indicating that the file size exceeds the view buffer size It is not an error condition Choose the Port option to send the job to the engraver Pass Table D E Be fobs Ne Da This section of the dialog is the same as the Machining dialog You can use either one The speeds used should be adjusted for the material cutter specifications and depth of cut These settings are unique to each tool It is possible to define up to three additional passes for the tool To define a second pass for example click on the 2 button This adds additional dials to define the tool s attributes for the second pass Notice that you can define a different depth This feature could be used for example to define a finishing pass or to clean up chips or to cut delicate or hard material Before clicking the OK button remember to select the second tool and define its attributes Clamping Method There is a great deal of flexibility in selecting a clamping method The top icon is used for standard flat plate engravers Even though your job XY origin is in the lower left the post processor automatically adjusts your job to fit flush in the upper left of the table near the home position The vise icon is used for center vise tables The center of your job is adjusted for the center of the vise The third and fourth icon
34. with Columnns Step 3 Define the Columns cont d In this dialog you turn on and off the horizontal and vertical rules using the four icons below the preview grid These icons toggle the grid lines on and off which are displayed on the preview grid All lines including the outside border horizontal and vertical rules Bj Outside border Horizontal rules E aj aj m HE r SH Vertical rules a You can also select the tool used to cut these lines and the line thickness in this dialog Turn off all lines and click Finish The column object is created In the picture at right the small red square in the center of the column object is its reference point The column Cha object can be moved by clicking and dragging this E EA point The text baseline for each cell is defined and CURE CREPES ready for text placement All text parameters such as font height justification etc are defined but can be changed Step 4 Column Text Entry Click on the text baseline in the upper left cell of the first column You must click the cursor on the baseline accurately or you will miss the defined baseline and add a text baseline that is not part of the column object Line up the cursor s horizontal cross hair with the defined baseline as shown Notice that the red text cursor snaps to the left of the column baseline as defined by its justification New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 82 CORRE
35. 0 engraver for this tutorial Step 2 Define the plate size Open a file and set plate size to 24 W x 6H Set all borders to 0 3 At the prompt select No for long plate mode Step 3 Add the Text Set the text height to 1 5 Select center justification and Arial text Type HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY on the first line and NEW HERMES on the second line Select the th after 60 and click on the superscript icon superScriptIcon bmp Step 4 Add Corner Ornaments Enter Manual mode Place the cursor anywhere in the lower left corner of the material From the Green pinwheel click on the Character list icon E Choose the Ornaments font from the Gravograph folder Click on any lower left corner ornament like the figure at right and then click the Insert command button If you do not have the Ornament font you can create your own simple corner ornament For example create two overlapping boxes like the ones in the figure at left Go into Select mode If the Cursor is not locked lock it Drag the corner ornament flush against the lower left margin Open the Transformation toolbox al While pressing the Shift key click on the Horizontal mirror Era tool This creates a mirrored copy above the object previously selected Control click on the original object so both the original and newly af created objects are selected While pressing the Shift _ Wi key click on the Vertical mirror
36. AWARD OF MERIT and Enter Type the following lines After each line except the last Enter Presented To David Daffner In Appreciation For Your Standard Of Excellence Loyalty And Friendship NEW HERMES INC 1998 Step 3 Modify Text Attributes Change font for AWARD OF MERIT to CLARENDON GL with a height of 4 Change David Daffner to Script 2L font with a height of 35 Step 4 Modify Line Spacing a E Select the 3rd and 4th lines in the job click Pei Pe 4 ee and change the Proportional Line Spacing to 150 Select the 7th and 8th lines in the job and change the Proportional Line Spacing to 150 Step 5 Working With Text On An Arc o Select the first line of text Click on the Text on Arc icon ES located on the blue vane of of the pinwheel Enter 4 for the chord length and 1 for the arc height Step 6 Aligning Job In Center Of Plaque Select and drag the arc text to position Step 7 Adding mounting holes Click on the Drill icon Set hole depth to 25 and drill diameter to 0 125 Choose 4 holes with a distance of 5 from the corners Step 8 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 26 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 27 DISCOVERY Lesson 4 Name Badge This exercise introduces the basic features of the Discovery Level software that you will be using in many of your designs The name badge you will
37. CT INCORRECT Start entering the names of the players on the Panthers team Use any names you wish Type the first name and hit Enter to move to the next line Continue entering names until all twelve cells are filled Hitting Enter at the end of a column will position the cursor in the cell at the top of the next column to the right You can use the Tab key to move to the next column or Shift Tab to move to the previous column on the same row Use standard word processing key combinations to move and select text within the cell For example Home End positions the cursor to the beginning end of the text line Shift Left Right arrow selects letters to the left right Step 5 Drill Holes Click on the Drill hole icon in the Shapes toolbox Enter a drill depth of 0 13 and drill diameter of 0 25 Select four holes and enter a spacing of 0 5 from the edges Click OK Step 6 Save your work Always remember to save your work frequently New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 83 Lesson 11 Plaque with Columnns Plaque with Columns Summary Step 1 Define the plate Set the material dimensions to 6 W by 8 L Step 2 Add text to the plaque Type the text GREENVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION in US BLOCK 1L font at 0 25 character height Type Eastern Division on the second line Change the character height to 0 35 and type Champions on the third line And finally type The Panthe
38. Dynamic levels Contour direction ar I E CO FI m L Basically with the Vectorization tools you are able to break a closed contour so that it will not be filled Filled contours The picture in Step 2 above represents the Wire contours view and when sent to the laser engraver will engrave just the outline vectors The picture below represents the Filled contours view and New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 87 DISCOVER Lesson 12 Simple Laser Engraved Plaque when sent to the laser engraver will be raster engraved It is possible to vector engrave after raster engraving using a feature in the laser engraver driver This is discussed below In text mode click on the Manual SL to enter Manual mode MA Wa a This separates the 2 line text object into two text objects G ravoS tyl E 98 In this lesson the first line will be vector engraved and the second line raster engraved This will be done as two separate transfers to the laser engraver For the first transfer the first line of text will be selected in Wire contour view mode For the second transfer the second line of text will be E mode icon selected in Filled contour view mode Click on the Select arrow icon and select the first line text Change to Wire contours view Step 4 Setup to Engrave E Hera ed Se Peni berm et er ET sea Tl de LT Click on the printer icon in the Main toolbar of GravoStyle98
39. Learning GravoStyle 98 A Training Manual TUTORIALS GravoStyle 98 2S F E incorporated a Gravograph Company New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Introduction This tutorial presents a series of lessons for each level of GravoStyle 98 The lessons are designed to be followed in order While there is necessarily some redundancy we try not to bore the reader by laboriously repeating the details Where appropriate you are directed to the page s containing information previously covered This tutorial is not intended to detail all the features of GravoStyle 98 Nor is it a comprehensive representation of those features discussed For complete coverage of each command refer to the separate GravoStyle 98 User Manual For instructional purposes the applications presented in this tutorial may be more complex than real world applications When laying out a Job the designer has the ability to use either artistic or technical methods or a combination of both Artistically the user can create and manipulate objects and text interactively If more precise layout is required the whole job can be created through precision dialog boxes This tutorial helps to introduce and familiarize the user with both aspects of the software Each lesson is a guided tour through creating a particular job The jobs have been selected to provide an introduction to most of the features of the software In each you will find a brief introducti
40. OVER Lesson 2 Simple Plate Step 6 Apply Italics cont d F7 Click on the Italic icon 2 on the right side of the Text Toolbar Tech Note Fine tuning your superscript text The offset amount from the baseline can be adjusted by clicking on the yellow quadrant on the Pinwheel y Sa Fs sl e mos do El Any selected text can be adjusted above or below the baseline by the desired percentage with this text tool The percentage from the baseline figure is relative to the character size When using the superscript icon the selected text is automatically reduced 50 and raised 100 above the baseline Hit Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the change Step 7 Superscript Text Select just the word above Remember you can double click it for fast selection b a Click on the superscript icon in the Text Toolbar a i Hit Enter or click anywhere in the per design to apply the change Step 8 Adjust Margins Let s increase the left and right margins slightly Click on the Material Definition icon ID l Same magns chattare by the kat one O On the Material Dialog box uncheck l Lett 100 0 in Masgira aulo comechor E Tech Note Line length compression Righi 0 in In automatic mode compression is automatic You can view the compression ratio Top ETT on the Text Toolbar 5 Badia o LOD in Eu 2 700 0 0 81 m me 3 000 0 1 39 50 es EXE L J When there is no comp
41. Receive Step 6 Save Your Work Hit Ctl S or click File gt Save on the menu Tech Note Tool Order Closed contours are machined before open contours The machining order is determined by the order in which the objects are created This is optimized only in so far as all contours using the same tool in the same pass are grouped together New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 53 Lesson 6 Tool Management by Color Tool Management by Color Summary Step 1 Open the Simple Plate job from an earlier lesson Step 2 Color assignments Open the Tool Properties window by clicking Select the text to be colored and double click a color bar to assign the tool by color to the object to be engraved Repeat for any other objects Any objects not selected will use the black tool 0 by default Step 3 Tool and color association Click on the properties button to invoke the Properties Sheet Click on a tool color bar and double click on a tool from the library to associate the actual tool with the reference color tool Step 4 Machining or Pass Table Click the Mechanisation tab and set the XY feed and Z plunge rates Dwell Spindle enable and Tool pause enable Do this for each tool in the job Click OK Step 5 Setup Job for Machining Click on the Machining icon Choose target engraver Choose vise or flat plate For each tool e Click on speed dials to set speed e Set cutting depth e Enable disable spindle
42. To move the entire line up or down place the cursor over the right red dot Click once to free the line Move the line up or down as required Click once more to place the line You can repeat this process as many times as you need to on any line As the lines are moved down a new panel may be automatically added at the top When you are satisfied with the cut lines click OK The Machining dialog is presented Notice that the vertical orientation ABC icon has been automatically selected to engrave the job vertically Select the XY speed Z speed depth dwell time and Z lift if not New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial button singleToolpromptCmd bmp that can be deselected Tool path selection If you click on the Toolpath Select button you Doe E Pan see four toolpaths defined one for each panel If o you need to re engrave a single panel after the MD La N _ Cancel job is engraved this is the dialog where you select only the panel to be engraved The job is engraved in toolpath order from top to bottom Gel al in this list Unsel all Tool 0 1 Pan3 Tool 0 1 Pan2 THDAY ay NEW HERMES The correlation between the toolpath name Tool 0 1 Pan1 and the actual sign is shown at left Tool 0 1 as do 5 ES L E EL You have the opportunity to change the speeds and depth on the Machining dialog if you wish Click OK to keep the machining job parameters that yo
43. ar height di b 8th Line FUTURA 3L 0 25 char height Lines 3 amp 4 150 Proportional Line Spacing Lines 7 amp 8 150 Proportional Line Spacing Presented lo ha In Appreciation For four Standard Ol Excellence Loyalty And Friendship Creating the Design Plaques are easily created in Automatic Composition mode They usually have more text lines than either the Name Badge or the Simple Plate designs As you have already learned you can enter some text or all the text and format it after input In this exercise you will see that text attributes can be specified before entry Step 1 Open a new file and set material dimensions Use one of the several ways to open a new file as described on Page 2 In the Material Dialog Box enter dimensions of 6 W x 8 L Step 2 Enter the Text Click the Center Justify icon if not already selected Change the text size to 25 Select FUTURA 3L under Gravograph fonts in the font pull down menu Remember to Enter to apply the change Note If the Gravograph fonts list is already opened clicking on the heading will close the list New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 20 Tech Note Text Editing To navigate through text via the keyboard use Up amp down arrows to move vertically e Left or right arrows to move by letter Home and end respectively to Step 2 Enter the Text cont d move to the beginning o
44. argin value to 1 t command button Leli 1 000 0 in Edit the Right margin value to 05 OK ede 5 PECE outline it is the Right D 050 0 in Ignore the thickness parameter default Hitting Ton Enter has the 2 0 150 0 in Click OK to accept meets Bottom 0 1 50 0 in clicking on the You now see a rectangle representing Teens 0 1 36 3 in the plate area The dashed lines inside Cancel default button the plate are the margins Note Both the material size and margins can be changed after defining dimensions In the Main Toolbar click the IL icon or in the menu bar click Modify then click Material in the pull down menu Note The default plate size is the size of the table engraving area This default can be changed in the Material Tab of the Options dialog F10 Step 3 Enter and Format the Job Text The default cursor position is centered between the margins Now just start typing John Norris We will now change a few text parameters for this line before applying these changes to the design This will speed the design process since we will not have to wait for a screen refresh for each separate change Select all the text on the line by dragging the cursor through the letters You can drag left to right or right to left The selected text will turn red Click the Left Justify icon New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 29 DISCOVER Lesson 4 Name Badge Step 3 Enter and Format the J
45. ault margins and click OK Step 2 Create the Job New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 86 Hit F12 and set the character height to 0 35 Choose center justification and select Arial font Enter to accept Type GravoStyle 98 on the first line Select this text by dragging the text cursor through it Press the Ctl C key combination or Edit gt Copy to copy this text to the clipboard Click at the end of the first line and hit Enter to start a second line Press the Ctl V key combination or Edit gt Paste to paste this text from the clipboard Step 3 Raster or Vector Engraving Click on the View pull down menu right View Mody Machining The selected view will determine whether the job oe will be raster or vector engraved VERRA During raster engraving the laser moves back and Zoom material forth in a hatch pattern to do filling During vector engraving the laser follows the defined contours a Chia You would select Wire contours for vector Quick redraw Ctrl A outline engraving and select Filled contours for raster filled engraving In Discovery and Industry levels raster and vector engraving are separate operations as explained later in this tutorial To do o 207 view Ctrl 1 AD EZ view Ctrl 2 ED KE VIEW Ctrl 3 30 engraver Chrl 4 both operations simultaneously requires the NC ries vectorization option as detailed in the Advanced 2D a Chief Laser Plaque tutorial Vectorization is included in Graphic and
46. choose the directory in which you want to start the file Aar n mala at Click Find in dir to display all jobs in the selected directory or click Find in all sub dir to enable searching graphic industry scanan 1 New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 102 in all subdirectories as well Sorted by Choose the sort order for the job file list The Creator and customer data are entered by the Name designer when creating the job This dialog can be f Creation date found from the menu File gt Information Although it is optional it s a good idea to include this extra Modification date information with each job file to facilitate searching for the file later C Creator Highlight the job in the upper panel and you will see a C Customer thumbnail of the job below Find the simple plate vnd job VITAE 21 48 11 1 mi mf F E i CAD TUT ORLA OES DESC TS IMPLE SIMPLE PLATES YKD LAM 1050 Click Open to open the job Step 2 Viewing toolpath in WYSIWYRE Click the WYSIWYRE icon a on the Main toolbar to go into the WYSIWYRE function Every visual aspect of this job can be modified You can change the background color the material type the fill color and the engraving width If you have defined the tools to be used for each color of the design you will see the actual toolpath in WYSIWYRE See figure top of next page New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 103 4 104
47. create consists of two lines of text an imported logo and a symbol from the symbol library Learning Objectives Use Automatic Composition Mode Set dimensions of the material Set margins Change character height Select fonts Align text Use symbols Move and scale objects Import a graphic Design Specifications Plate size 2 by 1 1st Line FUTURA 3L 0 1 char height 2nd Line FUTURA 3L 0 1 char height Symbol graphic NHlogo syb Graphic golf eps Filename name badge vnd Creating the Design When beginning a job the software activates the Automatic Composition mode by default This mode makes it simple to set up a job by providing default margins automatic line spacing and justification Adding predefined artwork is very simple Step 1 Open a new file To open a new file click on File in the uppermost menu bar on your screen Then click on New in the roll down menu below it New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 28 Step 2 Set material dimensions A Material dialog box appears asking for the job dimensions es default the selected text has a blue background Just type the width 2 Co EH and the selected text will be replaced 1 000 0 in Press Tab to move to the next field The height text field will be selected Type the height 1 Uncheck the Margins auto correction Margins auto corection E checkbox B When a dialog Same margins determined by the left one E Edit the Left m
48. dd the machine to your driver list even if you don t have one What s important here is to learn how to do long plate You can adapt these instructions to your particular table later The IS400 engraver can be deleted from your equipment list later Step 2 Define the plate size Open a new file and set the plate size to 24 W x 6H Set all margins to 0 3 and click OK Since the width dimension is larger than can be engraved on this machine you are New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial prompted with two choices Either the job is 1 to be engraved as a long plate or on a cylinder or 2 the entry was incorrect and the program will adjust the material to the default table size The material definition i greater than the default machine area Tou must either Use the long plate function or engrave on a cylinder Or let we adjust the material for you Do you want to adjust the material To activate long plate when you see this dialog click No Step 3 Add the Text Press F12 and set the text height to 1 5 Select center justification and Arial text Enter to accept Type HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY on the first line and NEW HERMES on the second line Select the th after 60 and click on the superscript icon superScriptIcon bmp N EV Step 4 Add Corner Ornaments You can add corner ornaments and in the process learn how to use some of the other powerful design tools available
49. dle remains motionless after a plunge into the material before moving inside the material The spindle icon on the right should be enabled since we are using a rotary cutter The other icons below the spindle icon should be disabled X ed Click OK when done Click on the Machining icon a This invokes the Long plate definition dialog ajaja di coca irs 2 O an E rz On 5 I DE LL 3 ho ad Notice that the job is split into three panels by the dashed red lines These panels are defined starting from the bottom The program splits the design at the maximum vertical dimension of the engraving machine You are able to manually move the cut lines to avoid cutting through objects It is much easier to get a better quality job if the cut line does not break an object However if you have a large graphic object you may have to split the object onto two or more panels Notice also that the job is presented with 2D filled letters If the plotting option were selected you would see just the outline of the letters as shown below There are two ways to move a cut line You can control the line from the left red dot or the right red dot The left red dot allows you define a zigzag line while the right dot moves the whole line up or down You can zoom as you would in the design screen using the icons under the caption bar or with the right mouse button Click the right mouse button to zoom in magnify or New Hermes Gravosty
50. e below You now choose which one of two methods you will use to create the column object In the first method you define columns in terms of the first base line its position cell width text width vertical space between baselines etc In the second method you define columns in reference to the overall frame the number of columns frame width and height etc The parameters used in these two methods are interrelated so the choice of which method to use is a matter of personal preference Once the column object is created you can go through the wizard again using either method In fact even before the object is created you can back up to the beginning of the wizard and choose the other method Any parameters you set in the first method are remembered in the second method Using the Base line position method set the character height to 0 2 All the text in the column object will have this character height Later you can change the text attributes for each individual cell Click the Next button See figure left Set the left of the first baseline to the XY position of 0 3 This sets the position of the column object in your design as di E zaini New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial referenced from the left side of the baseline of the cell in the upper left Set the number of rows to 4 and the number of columns to 3 Make the Column width 2 the Text width 1 4 and the Line space 0 5 Click the left
51. e connected New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Tech Note Alignment Tools When using the alignment tools except for balancing and spacing the first selected object is used as a reference for all subsequently selected objects The example below shows each tool s specific effect on the objects selected in the order shown Action The original design 5 Align left Align the left of all selected objects to the left of the first selected object ig Align Top Align the top of all selected objects to the top of the first selected object Wo Align bottom Align the bottom of all selected objects to the bottom of the first selected object El Align the right of all selected objects to the right of the first selected object Align Center Center all selected objects vertically with the center of the first selected object Align right Hit Align Horizontal Center all selected objects Horizontally with the center of the first selected object Step 3 Set up for Raster Engraving cont d Action Result Horizontal Boxing Adjust the width of all selected objects to match the width of the first selected object H Vertical Boxing Adjust the height of all selected objects to match the height of the first selected object H Boxing Adjust both the height and width of all selected objects to match the height and width of the first selected object H Adjust the horizontal position of al
52. e dn w golf eps Choose the eps file type by clicking on the arrow to the right of the file type field and scrolling through the selections l A When browsing Browse to the a name badge design sub directory and select golf eps double click the directory or file to Click Open select and open the file in one operation je View the entire design by clicking the Zoom max icon Drag the graphic so that its lower left corner is near the lower left corner of the material margin Drag and drop the upper right corner of the graphic making it smaller to fit in the blank area of the badge Nudge a selected object using the o E directional arrows on Click on the Zoom To Material icon to get a closer view the keyboard Set the nudge distance in the Drag the graphic to its final position You can scale and position this by eye options dialog F10 Step 7 Save your work In the Main Toolbar click the File Save icon lr or choose one of several Save shortcuts shown on page 4 9 New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 35 Lesson 4 Name Badge Name Badge Summary L Step 2 Set material dimensions Set dimensions to 2 by 1 with a left border of 1 and right border of 0 05 Step 1 Open New File Step 3 Enter and format the text Type John Norris using FUTURA 3L font left justified with a character height of 0 15 Go to the end of the first line and hit Return to add a second text li
53. ecific font library Select FUTURA 3L New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 13 DISCOVERY Lesson 2 Simple Plate Step 4 Change the Font cont d Hit Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the changes al s a TIMES A ABCabci23 FUN HELVETICA IL ABCabeol 2 4 Gravograph fonts 9 FUTURA 2 ABCabcl23 ABCabel23 _ tI FUTURA CROAT ES FUTURA 3 CH Select the second line of text and change the font to US BLOCK 1L H Single words Hit Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the change l can be quickly selected by Now we will mix fonts on a line double clicking Select just the word cut and change the font to TIMES 8L the word Hit Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the change This is how the job looks so far Step 5 Underline Text Select the first line of text GravoStyle 98 if not already selected i Click on the underline icon E on the Text Toolbar Press Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the change To change the position of the underline open the Yellow Pinwheel to expose the line editing functions New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 14 Tech Notes Undo Redo A You can also choose Undo and Redo from the Main Menu a TH Ma te va DI i per Cham rie CT Bo Tas gra ll First open the pinwheel by clicking on the pinwheel icon a on the left of the Text Toolbar Click on the Yellow quadra
54. ed to control a vacuum il table or chip collector pm Enable Disable a tool pause When enabled the LCD on the engraver will I fil prompt you for the Tool Number This should be enabled for jobs with multiple tools The software can automatically calculate equal depths for multiple passes To see an example of this click the 4 icon on the Machining tab to set up four passes Click on the Tool Properties tab and set a depth of 0 1 Click on the Machining tab once again and you will see that the depths are equally divided for the four passes 025 0 50 0 75 0 1 Click on the Machining icon in the main toolbar This dialog has many elements so we will discuss it by sections Engraving table selection 1540 Erva i Tag Por If more than one model is installed choose it from the pull down menu If your machine is not on the list refer to Section 2 5 Installing a Table Driver in this training manual for assistance installing a new table driver Choose the Test option to check if any of the composition overruns the actual engraving area New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial The figure at right is an example Overflow on ir of an Error screen It indicates an object outside or overlapping the engraving boundary This could occur unintentionally if you change the origin or swap the axis The test mode is also used to view the engraving instructions sent to
55. eive click Run on the Machining dialog to send the job to the engraver When the first panel is finished a message on the pendant s LCD panel prompts you to move the panel a certain amount in the Y up axis Follow the prompts and press start for each panel Step 7 Save your Work New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial 5 23 LESSON PhotoArt This lesson shows how to create a 3D surface from a grayscale picture that has been scanned into a bitmap image Objectives How to set the parameters to create the 3D image The steps to use to create a tool path from the GravoStyle 98 software Design specifications A butterboard sample size 2 7 8 by 3 7 8 by 1 thick The bitmap image Ceaser2 bmp A gravoply cutter 42007005 STEP 1 Start a new job A Set the material size to 2 875 inch wide 3 875 inch high 0 inch margins all STEP 2 Import A bitmap and Scale it A Enter the selection mode by clicking on the Selection button k B Import the bitmap Ceaser2 C Scale the bitmap image from the center to a width of 2 75 How to Press the shift key and keep it depressed while clicking on a corner of the bitmap image and without releasing either press the F2 key now the shift key and the mouse button can be released Now enter 2 75 into the width window and press the Enter key D If the bitmap is not selected select it now How to Position the cursor pointer on one of the edges of the bitmap and pre
56. er and adjusted the Z Reference Also you must adjust the depth with a nose cone Refer to the machine manual for these procedures When the tool has been adjusted and the machine is Ready To Receive click on the Run button to send the job to the engraver Step 5 Save Your Work Saving Your Work Select File from the Main Menu then click Save from the Pull down list Ctl S to save or use either of the other options at right Alt F S Ctl S New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 9 Lesson 1 Beginner Plate Design with Simple Engrave Beginner Plate Design Summary Step 1 Open a new file and set material dimensions Set the plate dimensions LI to 3 by 2 with automatic borders Step 2 Enter the text Type GravoStyle 98 Hit Enter to apply Step 3 Change the Character Height Hit F12 to highlight the character height text box and enter 0 3 Step 4 Setup Job for Machining Click on the Machining icon Click vise or flat plate Click on speed dials to set speed Setup engraver with a tool Adjust Z ref on machine When machine is Ready To Receive click on Run Step 5 Save your work Use any of the methods described on Page 4 9 to Save New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 10 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 11 B FUISCOVER Lesson 2 Simple Plate This exercise will introduce you to the many ways to set character attributes T
57. etting Up The Job Open a new file and set the job dimensions to 2 wide by 5 high Make all the margins 0 Use the default Arial font at 0 25 character height Step 2 Composing the job We are in Automatic Composition mode by default Enter the text sn On the blue pinwheel place a numeric variable by clicking on mn l This presents the Variable dialog with the variable name NUM1 assigned by default New Hermes GravoStyle V98 Tutorial 4 61 MSCOWERY Lesson 8 Matrix with Serialization Click on the y Variable List button which presents the Series Dialog so you can define the series parameters Enter a starting sequence number of 000100 a step size of 1 and an ending sequence number of 000108 as shown below Click Preview to see what you will get E Era TE I dre l pme tae Here is an alternative Enter a starting sequence number of 100 a step size of 1 and an ending sequence number of 108 as shown below Click on Constant number of digits and change the format to Click Preview to see what you will get Here is another way we can use this dialog Click on Alphanumeric Enter a starting sequence number of 100 a step size of 1 and an ending sequence number of 108 as shown Enter sn into the Text before box Click Preview Ft Ll io Fie oe mia a free MA im 106 rom at I Corsari rumos si dolo attore ss 100 rea FF api aero Tat
58. graphical elements Create and place text boxes Use Vertical text Design Specifications Filename basic sign vnd Material size 8 W x 6 L Margins all 0 3 from edge Heading CLARENDON 3L 0 5 high Street No CLARENDON 3L 0 5 high Tenants CLARENDON 3L 0 3 high St Address CLARENDON 3L 0 2 high Ellipse 2 19 x 3 Rectangle 5 213 x 3 Arrow 4 96 long Creating the Design Guidelines are a powerful design tool In conjunction with the F2 dialog design elements can be placed accurately The designer has many shapes and combinations of shapes and lines that can be used in an infinite number of ways Text boxes are like primitive automatic composition objects There are special tools available to place text on an arc on a spline on the vertical and on a diagonal We will use the vertical text tool in this job New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Step 1 Open a new file and set the material dimensions Open a new file and set the material dimensions to 8 wide by 6 high Step 2 Add Guidelines Click on the Manual mode icon pu Manual mode must be used for text on an arc diagonal text and vertical text In Manual mode the margins default to O Also each line of text is independent of the others Invoke the Material definition dialog by clicking on IL and set all margins to 25 using the same margins checkbox as shown CO ir S E o ong ato re er E Es mg tm ig
59. he letter y on the first line and turn off underlining by clicking the underline E icon to its off out position Step 6 Apply Italics al Select the second text line if not already selected Click on the Italic icon Step 7 Superscript Text Select the word above on the second line and click on the superscript icon Step 8 Adjust Margins Click the Material Definitions icon IL and set left and right margins to 3 Click anywhere on the first text line Adjust the Line Length value to 3 Apply Step 9 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 18 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 19 DISCOVERY Lesson 3 Simple Plaque In this lesson we will create a simple plaque consisting of eight lines of text one of which is on an arc We will also learn how to easily create mounting holes E 4 Learning Objectives Modify Line Spacing O F Working With Text On An Arc pe A Align Job In Center Of Plaque gt Add mounting holes r oe pe RA Design Specifications David Da dd e ple Plaque vnd Plate size 6 by 8 1st Line CLARENDON GL 0 4 char height 4 arc chord 1 arc height 2nd Line FUTURA 3L 0 25 char height 3rd Line SCRIPT 2L 0 35 char height HEW HERMES INC 4th Line FUTURA 3L 0 25 char height 1998 5th Line FUTURA 3L 0 25 char height 6th Line FUTURA 3L 0 25 char height 7th Line FUTURA 3L 0 25 ch
60. he simple plate shown here uses three different fonts underlining italics and superscript Learning Objectives Use underlining Use Undo redo Use italics Use superscript Adjust margins Design Specifications Filename Simple Plate vnd Plate size 6 by 2 Ist Line Futura 3L 0 5 char height 2nd Line US Block 1L Times 8L 0 4 char height Creating the Design By default when you open a job you are in Automatic Composition mode This mode makes it simple to set up a job by providing default margins automatic line spacing and justification Step 1 Open a new file and set material dimensions Open a new file if you ve forgotten how flip back to Page 4 7 the material dimensions dialog box appears asking for the dimensions of the plate By default the width text field will be selected Type 6 then Tab to the next field anal Lei aa The height text will be selected Type 2 gi TTT ra La Ignore the thickness parameter tee Click OK or Enter to accept e tm DEI New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 12 You now see a rectangle representing the plate area The dashed lines inside the plate are the margins which are automatically defined by default Note Both the plate size and margins can be manually changed after plate definition by choosing Modify gt Material Note the default plate size is the size of the engraving area This default can be changed in the Material Tab of the Optio
61. i ti ap st a New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial X 5 Appendix TOOLBAR FUNCTIONS BY LEVEL X 6 Green Pinwheel Text Toolbox DAR a 0 A 100 00 amp ai 0 00 Deg y 00D akfa ooo of asi sl K Cee aa femea fofo ESC TT RE IE e ome o o o femme o efa p o Te fm o Te fome o o Tu fase o o IE ERC DO E RE IE o fa Po o o o Te freni o o o New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Yellow Pinwheel Text Toolbox me pres ico op nm Proportional base line spacing Typographic base line spacing Automatic compression equal for all lines New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial X 7 Appendix TOOLBAR FUNCTIONS BY LEVEL X 8 Blue Pinwheel Text Toolbox EDS ES E E e feti o Too e femme e presa o Dj o po Pe foe o o o efe o o o De feria o o o o fee PP IE i frese o E e fer o o oo New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Red Pinwheel Text Toolbox A TT Default Delete Save Apply E B C D Features Discovery Industry Graphic Dynamic New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial X 9 Appendix TOOLBAR FUNCTIONS BY LEVEL Alignment Toolbox E fee o o m O O IEC fem po o em cem o EC RS A o resse TT esmo II NL EEC I IEC ese I E LI cf O TO NE CC SEE q E New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial X 10 Special Effects Toolbox RES New Hermes GravoSt
62. in Industry level and above In most commercial Windows based design programs there is usually more than one way to create a design element GravoStyle98 is no exception This program is very flexible making it possible to accomplish many designs and to be able work in different ways suitable to your individual style For the purpose of instruction we will discuss adding ornaments by various methods Pick one or go through them all as a learning exercise Click on the Manual mode icon Click Yes at the prompt Now the two text lines are separate text objects and additional text can be placed anywhere on the material New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial 5 13 wy Lesson 16 Sign with Long Plate Option 5 14 Step 4 Add Corner Ornaments cont d 1 Using the border method First we must reinstate the borders since entering manual mode automatically eliminates them Click on the Define Material icon and set all borders to 0 3 At the long plate dialog click No Place the cursor anywhere in the lower left corner of the material From the Green pinwheel click on the Character list icon El This presents a chart listing all the characters in the font whose name can be selected from the listbox located in the lower left of the dialog Choose the Ornaments font from the Gravograph folder When you rest the cursor over a symbol you will see a magnification of that symbol Click on any lower left corner ornament like this
63. in the lower left corner has just been copied to the lower left corner Click in an unused white area to deselect all objects Select the two bottom ornaments While holding the Control key drag a selection box around the two horizontal markers Press and hold the Shift key and click on the Mirror along axis tool mirrorOnAxislcon bmp You have just copied the two left ornaments to the top Delete the four markers New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial 5 15 bl RIVE DI ISTRY Lesson 16 Sign with Long Plate Option Step 5 Set Up the Job for Machining Since we will route the letters we must set the tool properties in order to select 2D fill If we were to only Tool properties route the outlines we could proceed directly to the LL Machining dialog So for 2D fill click on the Tool Color MS Tool 1 properties icon toolColorIcon bmp so we can set the HS Tool tool properties This job uses the default Tool O assigned EH Tools to the black color Click on the Properties button on the Toa 4 Tool Properties dialog Tool 5 Select 2D on surface from the pull down menu in the DS Tool E next Tool Properties dialog The depth should be set to Tool 7 0 008 if you are using the nose cone This is because EN Tool amp the standard engraving tools defined in the provided a Tool 9 tool library have their tip sizes defined at 0 008 up from the bottom of the tool By choosing this depth the Properties
64. ince all user defined parameters are stored with the job Each element in the column object can be individually formatted The user has control over the presence of lines separating the elements You can create multiple column objects in your design Objectives Text on arc Alignment Columns Drill holes Design Specifications ILL Filename Plaque with Columns vnd e fo Cl Material Size 6 W x 8 L o 1st text line 0 25 height US BLOCK 1L 2nd text line 0 25 height US BLOCK 1L ch Ln A 3rd text line 0 35 height US BLOCK 1L nus ii 4th text line 0 5 height SCRIPT 2L a Column object 6 wide by 2 high 4 rows 3 columns center at 3 2 i left justified text 15 left and right text border Creating the Design This is a basic plaque design with the addition of text in columns We will start in Automatic composition mode since it s easier to layout the text on the material in this mode Then we will put text on an arc which forces Manual mode Next we will add the columns object and text entries The columns function also forces Manual mode And finally we will add the mounting holes Step 1 Define the plate Open a new file and set the material dimensions to 6 W by 8 L Accept the default margins Step 2 Add text to the plaque Starting in automatic mode press F12 and enter a character height of 0 25 Choose center justification and change the font to US BLOCK 1L Hit Enter to apply Type the text
65. ion You Type Right click in the data section Edit Name of Variable Name Right click in the data section Add a Variable Department Right click in the data section Add a Variable Ext Right click in the data section Add a Variable Empl Step 4 Import the Data Place the cursor in the Name column and click Import Import the text file databaseList txt Click OK to accept automatic extraction Add a series of numbers from 1 to 16 in the Empl column Step 5 Compose the Master Plate Open the Select Variable dialog Action You Type Select Name variable Tab Select Ext variable Enter Select Department variable Enter Enter Enter Select Empl variable Select line Left justify character height 0 1 Add 7 pt star Step 6 Inspect with Live Data Open the Edit Variable dialog Y View live data by changing the Show State value New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 75 PDISCOWER Lesson 10 Complex Matrix Design Putting It All Together Step 7 Generate the Matrix AJE Click on the Matrix icon E Select a 2 by 4 matrix Select All for Axis Cutting and click OK Step 8 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 76 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 77 4 78 Lesson 11 Plaque with Columns This job will introduce the column function This function formats columnar text in the engraving area The column object that is created is fully editable s
66. is always left to right To obtain the best optimized cutting order for the shortest run time click the Optimized option The result with no axis cutting is Step 3 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 58 Simple Matrix Summary Step 1 Open a New File amp Set Material Dimensions Set dimensions to 3 x 1 with no margin Step 2 Design Type in the text GravoStyle98 in the HELVETICA 1L font at a 15 character height Open the Matrix dialog from the blue pinwheel Select a 3 by 2 matrix with a border offset of 0 25 and the space between elements set to 0 15 Step 3 Save Your Work New Hermes GravoStyle V98 Tutorial 4 59 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 60 ISCOVERY Lesson 8 Matrix with Serialization In this lesson you will learn many ways to create a matrix with serial numbers en 100 sn 102 sn Tihs Ay en 105 E I Ti sn 108 em 107 en 108 Objectives Use matrix with automatic numbering Design Specifications Filename serialization matrix vnd Material size 8 x 2 Plate size 2 by 0 5 0 margins Text Arial at 0 25 height Matrix 3 by 3 0 25 offset full axis cutting no optimization Creating the Design Again this design is trivial so we can concentrate on matrix serialization Like with Simple Matrix you could design a job as complex as desired In the next lesson we will use variable list Step 1 S
67. l elements Rectangles Create the outer boundary of the panel by selecting the L icon from the Shapes toolbox Hit F2 for the precision dialog Enter a width of 8 a height of 6 and the XY lower left origin equals 0 0 To create the large rounded rectangle click the rectangle tool again and enter the following data into the dialog at the top of the next page To create the smaller New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 3 wy aa MUSTRX Lesson 15 Control Panel Using Vectorization Option Rectangle Rounded rectangle x rounded rectangle click C again press F2 and enter a 0 125 radius 2 2 width 7 height and a center origin of 4 3 3 The smaller rectangle will be placed precisely in the center of the top line of the larger rectangle by snapping the center of the small rectangle on the midpoint of the large rectangle s upper side Open the Transformation Toolbox Al and click the Move icon nat Hit F3 for the Snaps dialog and choose the Gravity Center button Click OK Rest do not click the cursor on the upper edge of the small rectangle until you see a small red hint circle in the gravity center of the small rectangle Click and release the left mouse button to place the origin reference of the move operation As you move the cursor you see the object move with respect to its center Hit F3 and choose Center element Click OK Rest the cursor near the upper side of the larger rectang
68. l in effect New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Tech Note Adding a Symbol to the Symbol Library Import a logo from the floppy and save it as a symbol in the GravoStyle 98 symbol library Starting in Select mode go to the main menu click File gt Import Navigate to the a drive and choose files of type HPGL This is how the job has progressed a el fs ml Fiona John Norris Ti 4 di Double click the filename to import the logo While still selected red export the logo to the symbol library From the main menu click File gt Export Navigate to c NGravoStyle98 Symbols Click Create _ gt New Folder icon and type MySymbols Change directory to MySymbols Type the filename Step 4 Using the Symbol Library o S as type Symbol syb Of clic i Exit text mode by clicking on the Select icon k ae tOGIbOxOb wan aviso fol the left sl Al al le gl Click on the Symbol Library icon ah top of the screen on the shape toolbar on the The Symbols Library Dialog Box appears Library 19 Sprtols Libra STHEBOLS DI EMVELOP y MARIE FE Click on plus signs in left library hierarchy widow to reach the desired library then A Double click the click on the library to view the symbols contained in that library E symbol to Select Click on symbol to select and click OK and Enter in one step Shortcut You now have a dashed box representing the symbol ready for placement Positi
69. l selected objects between the two outermost selected objects for equal spacing El Adjust the Vertical position of all selected objects between the two outermost selected objects for equal spacing Horizontal Spacing Vertical Spacing Click on one of the points Then click on the disconnect icon Notice that the color of the contour changed to black indicating that this is an open contour The disconnected corner consists of two points overlapped Change the view to Filled contours from the pull down menu The outer border no longer fills the design as expected However the 98 is obscured by its surrounding box see figure next page Go back to Select mode Drag New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 95 DISCOVERY Lesson 13 Advanced Laser Engraved Plaque Using Vectorization Option Step 3 Set up for Raster Engraving cont d a selection box around this black rectangle Click on the Link icon s This action groups the 9 8 and G i S rectangle which in turn allows contours r avo ty e to be filled in the proper order below Note Grouped contours are filled in an alternating order starting from the outside So if you have four grouped contours fully containing in one another the fill pattern is as shown in the example right Select the outer border Click n on the Color icon in the Main toolbox to open the Machining tools dialog left Double click
70. le 98 Tutorial 5 17 mM MN Lesson 16 Sign with Long Plate Option Step 5 Set Up the Job for Machining cont d Control click the right mouse button to zoom out shrink the view Before clicking to zoom place the cursor in the center of the zoom area To control a zigzag line hold the cursor over the left red dot until the cursor arrow changes to a pencil Click once on the left red dot You ll want to use the zoom feature to facilitate placing the cut line in narrow spaces You can now move the red dot down to set the start point of the cut You are prevented from moving the start point upward due to the limitation of the engraving area Click once to place the start point A You are free to move the next point hand Ls Click to place the next point B Continue a a a E placing points as required To finish click in SA E the gray area on the right side 5 ig BIRTHDAY already selected For E E a sil further discussion on setting these sea parameters refer the Fat Tool Management by Color tutorial dee com bil Since you do not need the engraver to prompt you for the tool only one T i S CI tool used click off the tool prompt a w command buttons There is the a Global tool pause command button ir Ki allToolpromptCmd bmpand and the a m individual tool pause command E w sea re Ta OL EL amp Es Ci LLI L bu r
71. le until you see a small red hint circle at its midpoint Click to place Circles Now we create the circles Click the circle icon from Circle the Shapes toolbox Hit F3 and choose snap to Grid and o o o e 2000 Din guideline Move the cursor _ to the 2 4 X Y 4 000 0 in intersection When you see Di Ee e that little red hint circle 1 25 click to place the center of 3 7 i a a the circle You can now visually size the circle by moving the cursor Click F2 ok Cra and enter 0 125 for the x circle s radius Click OK Click on the Linear duplication tool icon DOO ooo DOO in the Duplication toolbox Enter 5 columns and 1 row Click OK Click at the guideline intersection at the Columns Canal center of the circle to place the move Fam fi origin reference point Start moving the Lore an duplicati New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 4 cursor to the right You see a total of 5 circles with the original anchored on the left We place all the circles by defining the interval between the two leftmost circles Move the cursor to the right until the little red hint snap circle is at the guideline intersection of X 3 00 y 4 00 Click to place If you have been holding the mouse button down during this operation then just release to place the copied circles Go to Select Mode and change Snap to None Click in the white area to deselect the circles Select the leftmost circle C
72. lick on the O Duplication icon O inthe Duplication toolbox Enable Snap to Intersection Click in the center of the selected circle move the cursor to the X 2 5 Y 3 25 intersection and click to finish the copy Square Click on the Create Rectangle icon on the Shapes toolbox Place the first corner at the 2 2 intersection Start dragging the cursor to the right and up a little Hold the Control key while dragging to force a perfect square When the cursor snaps to the vertical guideline at Y 3 you see a perfect 1 square Release the mouse button to place the square This is our progress so far Step 4 Type and place the text Select the Text icon to enter text mode and click to place the text marker on the bottom guideline near the center Guideline snaps should still be active Set the 2 00 0 baseline length to 8 Type master control 0 48 high in ARIAL font New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 5 ajdi Ea MWISTRY Lesson 15 Control Panel Using Vectorization Option AB Select this text and click the caps icon on the Green pinwheel to force text to upper case Be sure to hit Enter or click in the white work area to apply the attributes Click anywhere inside the small rectangle Make character height 0 4 X distance from left edge equal 4 and the font US BLOCK 1L Click in the white work area to apply Type VALVE Place the cursor between the V and A Press the Control Minu
73. lope object and delete New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 5 7 CT MUSTRX Lesson 15 Control Panel Using Vectorization Option 5 8 Step 6 Welding Move the distorted M near the A overlapping it slightly Zoom in to make it easier to Ta see Select the letter A in MASTER Click Uncombine 22 on the Master toolbar to separate the parts making up the letter Select both the outside part of the letter A and the distorted M click the Join icon in the FX toolbox Step 7 Final touches Draw a thin rectangle under the words MASTER CONTROL with dimensions approximately 7 long by 0 03 high Open the Alignment toolbox E and select Horizontal balancing a to center the selection horizontally Repeat for the words MASTER CONTROL Select the Digitizing toolbox b Click on the large rounded rectangle to select Zoom in to the intersection to the left of the V in VALUE Hit F3 and select Snap on intersection Click on the intersection to the left of the V You should see a solid red dot This is a placeholder for a point Click on the icon to add a point here Careful not to inadvertently select the small rounded rectangle If you are having difficulty placing the dot on the proper contour zoom in some more Or you could use the Snap along contour snap Click on the Disconnect icon T to break the closed contour Notice that the contour color changed from blue to black Repeat to disconnect at the o
74. master plate The design is very simple consisting only of a single variable A list of names will be imported from a file Step 1 Define the plate Open a new file and set material dimensions to 2 by 1 5 The plate dimensions must be small enough to allow a minimum of two plates to fit in the engraving area If not the software will prohibit the matrix operation Step 2 Assign a variable Press F12 to select the character height box Type 0 3 and hit Enter Click on the Y variable list icon fil on the blue pinwheel Click OK on the Select Variable dialog to accept and place the VARI variable New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 67 B se AUISCOVER Lesson 9 Matrix with Variable List Step 3 Import the Text Tech Note Text List Creation You can create your own list in Notepad Type each name on its own line Each line should end with a carriage return except for the last line Click on the variable edit icon ad on the blue pinwheel Click the Import button on the Variable dialog Look in the Matrix subdirectory of the lesson diskette and select the file names txt A message box pops up and asks if you want automatic extraction Click OK You should now see a list of 16 names You can edit add or delete in this list Sorting is not supported at this time So if you need a sorted list be sure to sort before importing Select the number 1 from the Show State pull down menu This instructs the soft
75. n WYSIWYRE Vie window Help If desired select a fill color from the pull down menu or F T a E by clicking the 8 icon on the main toolbar lt a Status Bar Background Slide the horizontal control bars for the red green and Ml l Fill colour blue colors to get the color desired Step 5 Change the background color in WYSIWYRE If desired select a background color from the pull down menu or by clicking the icon on the main toolbar The background is behind the material This could be useful to simulate the environment where the sign or plaque would be placed Step 6 Compare multiple versions of the same job in WYSIWYRE There may be a need to show a customer different materials from which to choose From the pull down menu choose Window gt New window Then choose Window gt Tile You now see a duplicate job Choose the material fill color and background desired for this new window a EESTI Mtns ff fe lei la am tm GravoStyle 98 A cut ee the rest GravoStyle 98 sn oft hoe Fe cmap copes DI Step 7 Save your Work Press Ctl S to save the file New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 105 DISCOVER Lesson 14 WYSIWYRE WYSIWYRE Summary Step 1 Open the Job Open the simple plate vnd job Step 2 Viewing toolpath in WYSIWYRE Invoke WYSIWYRE by clicking on the icon Check the design carefully for use of the proper tool If the toolpath
76. ne Type President Step 4 Use the Symbol Library Import the New Hermes logo NHLogo syb from the Symbol Library Step 5 Move and Resize Resize and place the New Hermes graphic into the upper left corner of the job Unlock the cursor to work outside the margins al Use the F2 key to scale the symbol proportionally so that the width is 0 9 Using the Move Object tool cy on the Transformation Toolbar a place the upper left corner of the symbol precisely at 0 05 in the X and 0 95 in the Y Snap to control points F3 to find the exact corner Step 6 Import a graphic Click on File gt Import from the main menu Find the proper subdirectory select and open golf eps Resize and place anywhere in the lower left of the job Step 7 Save your work Save to disk ll or use any of the other save routines shown on Page 4 9 New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 36 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 37 4 38 DISCOVERY Lesson 5 Basic Sign There are many ways to create signs depending on the design requirements and the level of software you are using In the Discovery Level we will design a sign by combining individual elements such as text boxes and graphic objects PROFESSIONAL BUILDING 2 Nm Welby MD 100 9 i B Casey MD 200 O T Magnum FI 300 Northment FEwy Duluth GA 20022 Objectives Manual Composition mode Set up job using guidelines Create and place ellipse and arrow
77. ned in the tool library to get accurate 2D fill and 3D tool path calculations For Discovery level without the 2D fill option only the tip width is important to get a good representation on the WYSIWYRE screen Otherwise this information is useless for Discovery since the depth in most jobs is set with the nose cone Tal ren Zi micrometer and the engrave depth is set im i I to zero in the Machining dialog foto cupim ties stars Eme For 2D operations using tool color management the program is only interested in the name shaft diameter pinin cutting angle and tip width For good results using 2D fill and 3D the actual tool must match these parameters precisely Fredi El The tool dialog can be invoked two ways The first way is by clicking the Add Change tools button from the Property Sheet dialog The second way is from the main pull down menu Machining gt Tools data base You select the tool from the dialog pull down menu You create a tool by typing a new Tool name in the pull down menu modifying the parameters and clicking save The Reference and Supplier text box entries are optional and are not used elsewhere in the program The parameters to modify when creating a tool are e Tool type choose a type of tool from the shape tabs The software supports engraving cutters end mills ball mills rounded conical tools and user defined For most all jobs not in Dynamic level you will be using
78. ng buttons in this order Selection Closed contours then the SEND button to open the tool path creation window In order to view the image the view must be changed to an isometric view HOW TO Atthe top menu choose the view option and scroll down to the 3D ISO View option NOTE When this window is opened the view is from straight above the part and no z information will be visible At this point we have to select the type of tool path 1 At the top menu select the TOOL PATH option 2 Scroll down to the TypeArt option to open the tool definition window Select the tool 42007005 Grply 005 30 in the TOOL NAME window In the allowance window enter 0 000 In the Stepover window enter 004 Set the sweep angle to 000 might read Hatch angle Set the Mode to Sweep might be Hatch Click the tools Database button so that you can set some tool parameters Click the Plus icon to open the tool Fam window AAN gt D 7 Inthe FEED RATE portion of the window you will make two entries a Set the nominal speed to 25 sec b Setthe plunge feedrate to 2 sec No other changes or entries are needed in the window NOTE On some machines the XY or Z axis will stall because of high rapid feedrates resulting in loss of position This can cause goughing or crashes The feedrates recommended above will be safe for most attempis 8 Close this window 9 Click the save button to save the changes that were made in
79. nment tools next These alignment tools are available in Industry and higher levels Click the Select tool to exit the Rectangle tool Select the outer rectangle Open the Alignment toolbox Click on Vertical and Horizontal H balancing to center the selected object in the material Select the text 98 Add the rectangle surrounding the 98 to the selection by Control clicking on it Click on Vertical and Horizontal HE Center icons to align the second selected object to the first selected object Step 3 Set up for Raster Engraving o Click on Convert to curves to convert the selected text object to lines and arcs This is necessary for reverse engraving Change the view to Filled contours from the pull down menu Notice that the area inside the border is filled obliterating the design All closed contours are filled by the laser raster engraving mode So we must open or break this border contour so that it will be vector engraved Change the view back to Wire contours Select the outside border rectangle and click the Point mode icon Notice the four square points defining the corners of the box One of the corners actually consists of two overlapping points The larger square point is the start point for this contour This is where engraving will start for this contour Notice also that the color of the contour is green or blue indicating that this contour is closed that is the start and end points ar
80. ns dialog F10 This is discussed more fully in the options discussion Step 2 Enter the Job Text Click on the Center Justify sl icon if not already selected Now just start typing Gravostyle 98 Hit Enter or click anywhere on the white graphics editing screen Type A cut above the rest on the second line The text position line spacing and character spacing are automatically adjusted to fit the text inside the margins We are working in the Automatic Mode In another lesson we will be working in Manual Mode Oops We need to capitalize the s in GravoStyle Select just the s Type an uppercase S to replace selected text Step 3 Change the Character Height Select the first text line by clicking and dragging the cursor through the text You can start at either end The selected text will turn red To edit the text height value click in the text height box on the Text Toolbar Edit the text height value to 5 Now select the second line of text and edit the field to read 4 A A A Press Enter to apply the change Step 4 Change the Font Select the first text line by clicking and dragging the cursor through the text Change the font to FUTURA 3L Click anywhere in the font selection box and scroll through the pull down menu Notice that a representation of the text is to the right of the font name Click on the Gravograph folder in the font list to access a font in the sp
81. nt inside the Pinwheel Now you see the Line Attributes toolbar on the bottom of the screen Notice that there is a description of what you are about to Undo or Redo GravoStyle 98 also allows you to set the maximum number of redo s di See Opti F10 The first line of text should still be selected SORA SCRISSE Click in the Underline Position text box and change the text to 20 Ctl Z to Undo Press Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the change CHA to Redo The underline just shifted upward slightly a Click the Undo icon to cancel the last operation Tu Click the Redo icon to repeat the last operation By alternately clicking these icons you can better see the effect of the Underline Position operation cc 2 Select just the letter y Click on the underline icon to turn off underlining for this letter Note that the underline feature is not a toggle All selected text will either be underlined or not depending on the state of the this icon regardless of the previous underline status Tech Note Fine tuning your italics The default value of slant degree is 15 You can change this by clicking in the in the Green quadrant of the Pinwheel o A poms PECE M0 Dag T ali al A negative value will slant the text to the left Step 6 Apply Italics Select the second text line A cut above the rest if not already selected New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 15 DISC
82. ob Text cont d To edit the text height value click in the text height box on the Text Toolbar gt el Dir Dis Su foe tafe lf a ma if hia aj 2 2 There are three ways to scroll 1 Click on a font name and drag up or down through the list Releasing the mouse button finishes the selection of the highlighted name 2 Or you can use the scroll bar on the right side of the pull down menu to navigate through the list You must then click on a name to finish the selection 3 Or you can press one or more letters corresponding to the first letter s of the font name to quickly jump to the first font name beginning with the letter s For this to work though you must highlight any font name before typing 4 30 nl Edit the field to read 15 Click anywhere in the font selection box and scroll through the pull down menu Notice that a representation of the text is to the right of the font name Click on the Gravograph folder in the font list to access a font in the specific font library Select FUTURA 3L Hit Enter or click anywhere in the design to apply the changes tI FUTURA CADA ES TIMES E eI HELVETICA IL ABCabci2o 4 Gravograph fonts ES FUTURA 3 ABCabel23 EI FUTURA 3 CH ABCabcl23 _ This is how the job looks so far Now we will add a second line of text Hit Enter Type in the word President Notice that all previously set text attributes are stil
83. ocation of the guideline When you click Change the dialog box disappears Click on the left ruler and drag and drop a vertical guideline near the center of the plaque Double click on this guideline to again bring up the guideline editor Type 3 half the total material width into the position text box Click Change to fix the location of this guideline The intersection of the guidelines indicates the exact center of the plate Click on the Edit menu and Select All ul Mii En Click drag the selection to the center of the material asso As best you can align the dotted box outline to fit inside the solid border of the material Make the vertical sides of the selection equidistant from the n Apprpcimilos vertical sides of the material and the horizontal sides cor Your Standard of Excalenca of the selection equidistant from the horizontal sides ny A W of the border Use the arrow keys to align the selection s vertical a E and horizontal midpoint control handles with the guidelines See figure at right New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Step 7 Add mounting holes Click Drill icon ai on the shapes toolbar to bring up the Drill Hole Dialog Box Change hole depth to 25 Tech Note Line Spacing Hit Tab Change drill diameter to There are three modes of spacing for lines fixed proportional and typographic The 259 distance between two adjacent baselines is determined by adding the text height and
84. olor Assignments The method used to engrave a job with multiple tools is to assign a different color to each tool much like a pen plotter If the job uses only one tool you can skip this step and use the default EE black tool 1 Machining tools MO Tool 0 Open the Machining Tools window by clicking on the ER Tool E E Machining Tools icon in the main toolbox ES Tool 2 Il l his job for th l es We will use two tools in this job one for the multi line font and another for the single line font Select MN 1001 4 the first line of text GravoStyle 98 Remember that Tool 3 you must be in text mode to select the text A quick Tool 6 way to go into text mode from select mode is to Tool double click on the text object E Tool E Now double click Tool 2 in the Machining Tools SE window to assign Tool 2 to the selected text Click anywhere in the white design area to deselect the Properties text Notice that the text is now green Select the word cut on the second Tech Note Editing Tool ti line Machining Tools OO properties Shortcut double click the word to Labels EA Tool select Assign this text to Tool 2 by MA Tool 1 double clicking the green bar You can rename the label associated with e 020 A cry le the color but only in A 150 Acrylic the Machining Tools Do Tool 4 window First select Tool 5 Repeat this process for the remaining text assigning it to the blue tool Tool 4 It s irrelevant which tool
85. on in the Shapes toolbox Enter a drill depth of 0 13 and drill diameter of 0 25 Select four holes and enter a spacing of 0 5 from the edges Step 6 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 84 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 85 Lesson 12 Simple Laser Engraved Plaque In this lesson you will learn the basics of laser engraving with GravoStyle 98 You will learn how to do both vector and raster laser engraving You will learn how to use the laser drivers provided with your laser engraver and how to use the various GravoStyle 98 print options TOM al a ji 1 LS A il i a Sl A i Ros Ro A A par IIS a alti 5 i RT T n L UT a PA OL LS ML I za i nmmr ma 3 GravoStyle 98 Objectives Raster or vector laser engraving Select laser driver Choose printer options Setup job in laser engraver Design Specifications File simple laser vnd Material Size 4 x 4 Text lines 1 amp 2 0 35 character height center justified Arial font Creating the Design This design consists of two lines of text It is intentionally very simple in order to concentrate on the steps required to complete the laser engraving process A more advanced laser engraving tutorial follows this lesson Step 1 Define the plate size Open a new file and set the plate size to 4 x 4 Accept the def
86. on the box and click to place New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 31 Lesson 4 Name Badge Step 5 Moving and Re Sizing Notice that the symbol is too large for the plate so its size needs to be reduced Click the Lock icon on the bottom status line to toggle locking off PR When the Lock icon is on the cursor may only move freely inside the material margins Press F4 to toggle on and off a preview of the To view the entire design click the Zoom max icon dI Waie itis pemg Click over any line in the symbol to select the graphic object it turns red 1 Now resize the symbol by dragging any corner handle toward its center As the symbol is being resized you see a dashed line representing the symbol size Release the mouse Press F2 to specify button when the object is at the desired size within the margins exact values for when precise dimensions are Click on the Zoom To Material icon to get a closer view required for scaling or moving Click and drag the corner handle of the object once again Before releasing the mouse button press the F2 key This brings up a scaling dialog LI E Tech Note Resizing Objects After selecting there are several ways to l resize an object or objects E a k i x a a a i cl ji i Proportional Scaling Click on farai AA IT TU i any of the four corner handles and su a drag in or out ii x i DELLA Symmetrical and Proportional Scaling wee Po
87. on the red bar Tool 1 to assign these selected contours to the color red Later we will assign a specific laser power level to this color Step 4 Setup to Engrave You should still be in Filled contours view Remember this painted view is required to do any raster laser o El na r engraving Select all objects in the a Baad y Toston LPT design using the Ctl L hotkey Click ee 557 Lute Prinsa Praza lakbone Pee SA Variati III Do gado LUPI BL on the printer icon in the Main toolbar of GravoStyle98 Click on the Setup command button on the Print dialog Choose the appropriate laser engraver from the pull down list oi J_ ces New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 96 If your laser engraver is not on this list you must go back and install it from the disk provided with the machine Refer to the instructions in the laser engraver manual also provided with the machine Choose Landscape orientation Click on the Properties command button Click on the 1 black color property item Set the power and speed to be appropriate for the material to be engraved Click Set Click on the 42 red color property item Set the power higher than that for black since this is a very thin line Click Set Make sure that Clipart Mode is unchecked The PPI and DPI settings are your choice 500 is a good starting choice In the Pen Mode field on the left side of the dialog you can choose between
88. on to the scope of the job a list of learning objectives naming specific features you will by using and the job specifications Then the job is explained step by step Finally there is a brief summary of the steps as a quick reference guide New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 3 DISCOVERY Plate Composition Automatic Mode Manual Mode Text in Arc Vertical Text Angle Text Matrix Columns Digitizing Functions Basic Shape Library Moving re shaping Functions Drilling Point Library Help Functions Grid Guide Lines Layer Color WYSIWYRE Spell Check Access Import Export Import HPGL BMP TIFF EPS DFX IGES ISO Export DFX HPGL EPS Laser Drivers Scanning Vectorizing Dials and Rules Filling and 2D Tool Management Drivers for competing tables Single amp multi line engraver s fonts PhotoStyle engraving a photo New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 5 COVERY Lesson 1 Beginner Plate Design with Simple Engrave This exercise will show you how to set up a very simple one line job in automatic composition mode Then it will take you through the process of preparing it for engraving Soup to nuts at the most basic level Objectives Use automatic mode Set plate dimensions Enter text Change character height Design Specifications Filename beginner plate vnd Plate size 3 by 2 Ist Line Arial 0 3 character height Creating the Design We will use automatic mode to
89. onger than higher the motion of the laser will be more efficient in Landscape orientation Click OK twice until you see the Print dialog left Vengo OF TIS on LPTT Prini Forge i a fe Gairis gt DA Pora sabe High l Pit Fl MT Card Cara I delusi to page m pise 100 000 3 Step 5 Engrave Engrave line 1 ar wae Tie an LT Foa of the dialog you can choose between raster skip none for the associated color You Lace atinga Enga Field prapiici Erede O in 3 ht pk Ft a PET 4 0000 q 000 Pucha Icha Henao E Port Es de Landas Hoe puede giro do deste l Ha herrado In Print Range click Selection Note If you want to also engrave the material border then set the print range to All Be sure to check the border color It must match one of the colors in the Laser Settings tab of the laser driver properties dialog above The border color can be changed in the Color properties tab of the Options F10 dialog Uncheck Print to File Center and Info Make sure the scale is 100 By unchecking Center the job will be engraved in the upper left corner of the engrave area By unchecking Info the filename will not be engraved Click OK to send the file to the laser engraver Put your 4 x 4 material in the upper left of the engrave area of the laser engraver at the intersection of the two rulers Press the Next File and the Sta
90. plate and place variables eView live data Step 1 Define the plate Open a new file and set material dimensions to 3 by 2 Step 2 Set text attributes Press F12 to select the character height box Type 0 15 Select US Block 1L font and hit Enter Step 3 Set up the variables In this step the variables will be added and their names customized Click on the variable edit icon ad on the blue pinwheel Right click the VARI column heading and select Edit Name of Variable from the pop up menu Highlight the heading text and type the word Name followed by Enter Right click the area again and select Add a Variable Type the word Department followed by Enter Right click the area again and select Add a Variable Type the word Ext followed by Enter Right click the area a final time and select Add a Variable Type the word Empl followed by Enter Step 4 Import the Data Wanablea Click to place the cursor EEE anywhere in the first column import Sera Short i tra Click the Import button on the Tier Chon rph bodies lo pel coni rama act pou to coca pra Variable dialog Look in the si Matrix subdirectory of the lesson M Compii diskette and select the file Une epa Ea Frei databaseList txt A message box alice Oraret Fecha 3 me dj Sises Lada Dgr in pi pops up and ask if you want gt T aap Diay raida talee FM automatic extraction Click OK Aj lu andan Paid Sars 472 E code Ciad
91. r design The default arc selection was text above a raised arc which can be changed on the right side of the dialog Click Ok to accept The arc text parameters for an arc text object may be modified at any time by clicking the Arc Text icon while the text cursor is on the arc baseline Note that the arced text is partially off the material This is due to the Y coordinate value having been automatically set to the selected text baseline s Y coordinate We could have edited this value in the Arc Text Dialog but it will be easier to reposition this object visually Click on the Select icon to exit text mode Click and drag on any part of the Tech Notes Moving Objects To constrain the movement to a single dimension either horizontal or vertical hold the Control key while dragging Hit F4 to preview the object while dragging Use the keyboard arrow direction keys to nudge incrementally move the selected object in any of four directions Set the arrow key nudge amount In the main menu click Edit then Options or hit F10 to open the Options Dialog Box Change arrow move value to 1 or any value you prefer Click OK Ima text inside the material A rectangular outline of the EI mi 1 ASE A object is shown Drop the object when in position n f Fa di n tar Aa Now let s increase the arc angle of the text to make it E al mi Tacoma look more balanced Since we are still in Select Mode j
92. r end Press the Caps Lock key for all upper case text entry Type AWARD OF MERIT then Enter Text placement is automatically centered The cursor is now on the second line of the line e Ctl Home or Ctl End respectively to move to the first or last character in the Press the Caps Lock key again to turn off upper case text composition Continue typing the following lines of text hitting Enter after each line When selecting text keep the cursor except the last AWARD OF MERIT Presented To David Dafne For four Standard CH Ercallence Lovalty And Friandskip HEW HERMES INC 197E AWARD OF MERIT Presented To la Apprezialian Far Your Stetdord I Excellence Loyalty And Friendship HEW HERMES INC 1598 inside the baselines In all other respects selecting text is similar to methods used in most Windows text editors For more specific information see the GravoStyle 98 User Manual Presented To David Daffner In Appreciation For Your Standard Of Excellence Loyalty And Friendship NEW HERMES INC 1998 AII lines are now center justified in the center of the plaque see figure at left Step 3 Modify Text Attributes Now to enhance the appearance of the plaque we ll apply different attributes to some of the lines Select the text AWARD OF MERIT Change font to CLARENDON GL and the character height to 4 Hit Enter to apply these changes Select the tex
93. ression the value is zero When the text line can no longer fit between the margins this value goes negative Both the character width and intercharacter spacing are automatically adjusted You can further manually modify character width and intercharacter spacing New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Step 8 Adjust Margins cont d the Margins auto correction checkbox so we can manually determine the margins Edit both the Left and Right margin text box values to 3 Click OK or Enter Notice that the second line of text expanded to fill the space between the left and right margins This second line had been too large for the space and so was automatically compressed By increasing the margins the compression was reduced The line length can be reduced to exactly fit a line of text into a precise width This can result in text compression For example Click anywhere on the first text line and edit the Line Length value to 3 then Enter A new compression ratio of 39 50 for this line has been automatically set O S Dro Dose 3 000 0 EE Notice that all the text on the line now fits the shortened baseline by reducing the character width and intercharacter spacing Step 9 Save your work Tech Note Paragraph level compression Another compression feature forces all selected lines to be compressed to the maximum ratio of any one line in the selection This will make the characters appear more unifo
94. rm and more visually pleasing To see this in action Click anywhere in the first line and drag to anywhere in the second line eae Click on the Compression by Paragraph icon El Hit Enter to apply Now click on any baseline and you will see that the same compression ratio has been applied to all selected lines New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 17 Lesson 2 Simple Plate Simple Plate Design Summary Step 1 Open a new file and set material dimensions Open a new file LI Set the plate dimensions to 6 Lx 2 W with automatic borders Step 2 Enter the Job Text Add text to the first line GravoStyle 98 Hit Enter and add text to the second line A cut above the rest Step 3 Change the Character Height Select all the text on the first line and change the character height to 0 5 Select all the text on the second line and change the character height to 0 4 Step 4 Change the Font Select all the text on the first line Go to the font pull down menu CC E and select the FUTURA 3L font Select the second line of text Change the font to US BLOCK 1L Step 5 Underline Text i Select the first line of text Click on the underline icon E on the Text Toolbar to underline the first line Apply Open the Yellow Pinwheel by clicking on the a icon Click on the Yellow quadrant inside the Pinwheel Edit the Underline Position text box ELE and change the text to 20 Apply Select t
95. rs on the fourth line in SCRIPT 2L font at 0 5 high Click in the first line of text and click on the Text on arc icon on the Blue pinwheel Enter a radius of 2 5 Select all the text on the arc and change the character width to 125 Add a horizontal guideline at the bottom of the arc text Add a vertical guideline at 3 Add a rectangle around the bottom three lines of text Select these three lines of text Start a Move operation and Snap to Gravity center Finish the move operation with Snap to Grid and guides at the intersection of the two guidelines Delete the rectangle Step 3 Define the Columns To setup the default text attributes to be used in the columns type a letter in the lower half of the job Set the font to US BLOCK IL Click on the Column icon EE on the blue pinwheel For Position of frame enter X 3 and Y 2 Click on the center reference Change rows to 4 and columns to 3 Make the column width 2 and cell height to 0 5 Edit the bottom border to 0 1 With the text cursor in the baseline of a cell click the Column icon to edit the Column object Select the Borders and strokes tab Click the All borders icon to turn off borders Step 4 Column Text Entry Click in the top left cell on the text baseline Manually enter all the names Hit Enter to move to the next cell Hit Tab or Shift Tab to move to the next or previous column respectively Step 5 Drill Holes Click on the Drill hole ic
96. rt buttons successively on the laser engraver to begin the engrave process If your laser has a spotting beam you can do a test run of the job by leaving the door open before pressing Start New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 89 DISCOVERY Lesson 12 Simple Laser Engraved Plaque Engrave line 2 Select the second line of text and switch to Filled contour view mode In the Pen Mode field choose raster only for the black color With this setting the engraving time is shortened since the engraver will not vector engrave after raster engraving Click the Print icon and click OK to send the file to the laser engraver Press the Next File and the Start buttons successively on the laser engraver to engrave the second line of text Step 6 Save your Work Press Ctl S to save the file New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 90 Simple Laser Plaque Summary Step 1 Define the plate size Open a file and set plate size to 4 x 4 Step 2 Create the Job Type GravoStyle 98 with character height of 0 35 center justification and Arial font Add a second line identical to the first Step 3 Raster or Vector Engraving From the View pull down menu select Wire contours for outline vector engraving Step 4 Setup to Engrave Select the objects to be engraved which in this case is the first line of text Click the print icon Click the Setup button in the Print dialog Select the laser engraver from the pull do
97. s on the keypad key combination to manually reduce the kerning Zoom in with the right mouse button Repeat as necessary Do the same for the L and V pair You can increase kerning with the Ctl key combination Adjust up or down visually to center as required Click the cursor at the 2 5 4 5 intersection Set the text height to 0 25 Type MAIN Type AUX at location 5 5 4 5 If the letters are too closely spaced you ll have to select the letters and manually reverse the kerning Sometimes the kerning is remembered for new text Click at location 2 0 4 25 Set the character height to 0 1 Type LEFT Type RIGHT at 3 0 4 25 Deselect RIGHT text Hit F2 and enter 4 25 Hit F3 and enter 4 0 Type MASTER and hit Enter Click to place the text marker in the center of the circle at 2 50 3 25 Type 12345 Choose Text on Arc from the Blue pinwheel Enter a radius of 0 25 and hit Enter Hit Shift End to select this text Change the intercharacter spacing to 200 on the Green pinwheel This is the job so far I i LP MAINS AUX A PAR PPP agla A SAA An LEPRI Ra BASTIR I pro Fra mim posse de a ie siii Are as o is gg a dal iaia i i i i li E ioni nae E cla Eb A m mn mm mm mn m I I I a im L I I F mm I New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Note You can pick up certain text at
98. s allow you to define an exact XY 0 000 0 n o 26r In New Hermes GravosStyle 98 Tutorial 4 51 DISCOVERY Lesson 6 Tool Management by Color Step 5 Setup Job for Machining cont d origin floating origin referenced to the upper left or center of your job Axis Swap ABC HA This section allows you to send a rotated and or inverted job to the machine Be careful using this feature It is advised that you engrave in the air BC gy the first time you use this since there is no way to verify the results in the software C JJA JAY AB FEL Also in this section you define the Z lift parameter which is the how far the tool is raised before moving to the next area to be engraved 0 078 7 in Tool Path Management Click on the Tool Path Select button to choose Tool path sel one or more tool paths to be engraved Collate This invokes the tool Path Select Dialog box Un plate Di This provides you the ability to fine tune what you output Note For a design that contains multiple objects only those objects selected before invoking the Machining module will be engraved If no objects are selected then the system defaults to processing all the objects Collate Hore by tool path This dialog allows you to further z cere refine how the job is output C Bp Lape Choose none if you want the job fe ql sent to the table one tool at a time Choose B
99. since we are using a rotary cutter The other icons below the spindle icon should be disabled X ed Click OK when done E Click on the Machining icon This invokes the Long plate definition dialog Now define the cuts for panelizing the job To control a zigzag line hold the cursor over the left red dot until the cursor arrow changes to a pencil Click once on the left red dot You ll want to use the zoom feature to facilitate placing the cut line in narrow spaces You can move the red dot down to set the start point of the cut Click once to place the start point You are free to move the next point Click to place the next point Continue placing points as required To finish click in the gray area on the right side To move the entire line up or down place the cursor over the right red dot Click once to free the line Move the line up or down as required Click once more to place the line Repeat this process as many times as you need to on any line As the lines are moved down a new panel may be automatically added at the top When you are satisfied with the cut lines click OK The Machining dialog is presented Select the XY speed Z speed depth dwell time and Z lift Click Run to send the job to the engraver New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial Step 6 Engrave the Job Put the tool in the spindle and set the Z reference Position the work piece in the lower left corner of the machine When the engraver is Ready to Rec
100. ss the left mouse button only one time Caution Double clicking the edge of the bitmap will open the bitmap editor which we don t want to do D Save the file STEP 3 Start Styl Art and create a 3D surface A Press the Styl Art button on the top tool bar o B Set the dark elevation to 060 C Set the Bright elevation to 005 D Press the enter button to close this window and generate the 3D surface NOTE It is not necessary to to select any of the other buttons as the software defaults to the Replace mode Page 1 of 4 STEP 4 View the surface and smooth the surface details A Click the Fast View button to view the 3D surface NOTE By positioning the mouse cursor in the right hand window and left click and drag the image can be rotated and tilted for various viewing angles Right clicking and drag will cause the image to be zoomed in or out Now to smooth out the roughness of the surface 1 Exit this window by selecting from the top menu FILE then QUIT To smooth the entire image click the MEAN FILTER button 1 Enter the number of times you want the image to be smoothed use 4 times 2 Press the Enter key to accept this number and do the smoothing operations 3 To view this smoothed image again repeat STEP 4 A amp B STEP 5 Enter the tooling information and create the tool path A Page 2 of 4 Click the tool management button to open the tool selection options Select the followi
101. t David Daffner F12 selects the text height field in the text toolbar Change character height to 35 and change the font to SCRIPT 2L Remember to Enter or the changes won t be permanent Your plaque now looks like the picture at right Step 4 Modify Line Spacing see Tech Note page 25 The text has been modified but the line spacing needs to be adjusted to set the recipient s name apart from the rest of the text Click anywhere on the line containing the words David Daffner and drag the red text cursor to any position on the following line In Appreciation We just need to include the two baselines Open the Yellow Pinwheel If not already open click on the Pinwheel icon a Then select the yellow vane of the Rapid Choice Pinwheel located in the lower left corner of the screen New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 21 DI ae DISCOVER Lesson 3 Simple Plaque Tech Note Viewing your work Zoom in to a closer view by positioning the cursor over the center of the text line then pressing the right mouse button Zoom out to a wider view by holding the Ctl key and clicking on the right mouse button 4 22 AWARD OF MERIT Presented To In Appreciation For Your Standard Of Eucallenca Loyally And Friendship HEW HERMES IHC 1978 Step 4 Modify Line Spacing cont d Click on the Proportional Line Spacing Icon and enter 150 Hit Enter to apply We just doubled the amo
102. t drag to the second point and release A Click on the arrow icon on the Shapes toolbar Tepe of Anos Avice 6 Drhogonal Anoa O Fila ati Select Orthogonal Arrow and Click OK Click at the guideline intersection C to place the start of the arrow Drag stretch the New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 40 arrow to the right Click at D to place the tip of the arrow Drag the cursor up to modify the width of the arrow head Drag the cursor to the left to change the angle of the arrow head When satisfied with the preview click to place the arrow head Move the cursor up and down to vary the thickness of the arrow shaft Click once more to finish the arrow creation If the arrow doesn t live up to your creative expectations you can easily undo and start over An alternate method of creation is to hit the F2 key after clicking the arrow icon This presents a dialog where you can define precise values for all parameters This is how the design looks now Step 4 Create And Place Text Elements Click on the Text icon in the toolbox to enter text mode Remember we are in Manual Composition mode Click on the blue vane of the Pinwheel and click the Text into Rectangle Icon a i Click and drag the text box in top area of the material above the ellipse Between E amp F set the character height F12 to 5 and the font to CLARENDON 3L as shown ic ai di Cee EE T RE E Ea E ESCEE TST EEE E O OM
103. t be engraved Click OK to send the file to the laser engraver Step 5 Engrave the Job Put your 4 x 4 material in the upper left of the engrave area at the intersection of the two rulers Press the Next File button and then the Start button on the laser engraver New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 97 DISCOVERY Lesson 13 Advanced Laser Engraved Plaque Using Vectorization Step 5 Engrave the Job to begin the engrave process If your laser has a spotting beam you can do a test run of the job by leaving the door open before pressing Start Notice that the entire job is engraved with one data transfer to the engraver This is in contrast to the job discussed in the Discovery section for Simple Laser Engraved Plaque Step 6 Save Your Work Press Ctl S to save the file New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 98 Advanced Laser Plaque Summary Step 1 Define the plate size Open a new file and set the plate size to 4 x 4 Accept the default margins and click OK Step 2 Create the Job Hit F12 and set the character height to 0 35 Choose center justification and select Arial font Type GravoStyle 98 on the first line and 98 on the second line Go into Manual mode 4 Draw a small rectangle around the 98 and another larger rectangle near the edges of the material Select the outer rectangle and click on Vertical and Horizontal Hl balancing to center the selected object in the
104. t by Color In this exercise we will learn how to manage jobs with multiple tools We will learn how to define and select tools We will also cover setting the speeds feeds and depths associated with each tool And finally we will learn how to use the Machining dialog we saw briefly in the first lesson Objectives Open an existing document Assign color to objects Tool color associations Configure the engraving parameters Set up the job for machining Design Specifications Plate size 6 by 2 1st Line Futura 3L 0 5 char height 2nd Line US Block 1L Times 8L 0 4 char height Filename Simple Plate vnd Creating the Design We will not actually create a design in this exercise We will use the Simple Plate job created previously Step 1 Open An Existing Document Sil Click the file open icon L in the main toolbar or select File gt Open on the menu New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 45 COVERY Lesson 6 Tool Management by Color Doublecliicethe If you do not see the Simple Plate job Simple plate vnd in the displayed directory you need to navigate to the directory where the file can be found Click in the Look in pull down menu at the top of the dialog Use the scroll arrows to choose the directory Click on the directory to select Click on the filename in the list box below and click Open to bring the selected file into GravoStyle 98 filename to select and open in one operation Step 2 C
105. tangle object enclosing the bottom three lines of text Adjust as necessary This will be used as a reference object to find the center of the selected text Now select only the bottom three lines of text If you have inadvertently selected the rectangle as well Control click on it to deselect Click the Move icon on the Transformation toolbar Hit F3 and select Gravity center Click OK Hold the mouse cursor over the rectangle until you see the small red hit circle Click the left mouse button Notice as you move the mouse cursor you have positioning control of the selected text referenced to the center of the selection Hit F3 and click on Grid and guides Click OK Move the mouse cursor near the intersection of the two guidelines Click the left mouse button when you see the small red hit circle Select the rectangle and hit Delete See figure at the top of the next page New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 79 4 80 DISCOVERY Lesson 11 Plaque with Columnns Step 3 Define the Columns a A column object consists of an even number of cells organized in an XY grid pattern Click on the Text mode icon to go into text mode Click the cursor anywhere in the bottom half of the material Choose the font to be used in Lia gA h L the column object Press Enter to apply Now click on the Column icon EE on the blue pinwheel The Text in Columns wizard is presented which allows you to create a column object See figur
106. tep 3 Change The Character Height Select the text line by clicking and dragging the cursor through the text You can start at either end The selected text will turn red To edit the text height value click in the text height box on the Text Toolbar or hit F12 EEE EEE Loo cc il Edit the field to read 3 then press Enter to apply the change Step 4 Setup Job for Machining Click on the Machining icon E in the main toolbar Teni path mi Da pista a N sel 4 7 Make the machining dialog on your screen match the one displayed here We will not go into a detailed explanation of this dialog in this exercise This dialog is discussed in detail in the Tool Management exercise Lesson 6 This default machine is displayed at the top If you do not see your machine name try New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 8 clicking on the down arrow to the right of the box If you see your machine on the list select it now Otherwise select any machine for this exercise but don t actually engrave anything To add a machine later see Page 2 5 Installation Click the vise icon on the left if using a vise or click the icon above it if using flat plate Click the XY dial twice so that the little red indicator is at the far right of the dial This is the fastest XY speed setting Do the same for the Z dial This job assumes you are using a single tool Tool O It also assumes you have set up your tool in the engrav
107. the previous window then click the OK button to close this window 9 Close the TypeArt milling window to start the tool path generation process Watch it build the tool path first in white then in yellow When the yellow is finished the information is ready to be sent to the machining module STEP 6 Setup the job for the machine and send it to the machine A Click the machine icon to set up the orientation and position B Select the machine that the job will be sent to C Select the orientation of the job D Set the spindle to run with the job E Select the vise as the work position that will hold the work piece F Set the Z clearance to 075 075in G The Z depth should be set to 0 00 because we are machining to a surface H OK OK Now click the run button to send the job to the machine Page 3 of 4 STEP 7 Set up the tooling on the machine and run the job A Set the tip of the tool to the surface and use this point as Z Ref B Start the job and enjoy It will take a while to cut this piece Page 4 of 4 Appendix TOOLBAR FUNCTIONS BY LEVEL MAIN FUNCTION TOOLBAR ii O ca ais D E Open document ES ICI CI ICI na pea pps ES pra RR ps EM pra RR RR ES pr RR poso EM pr pops EE LL ILE LL ps MO pum Y Peomprevous ot IM A E E emee MN N rete o ARE odi A e A A e ar aE eee ee a sm pa pr po MA E ss E a cil RR EEC J
108. the Control point button and click OK or hit Enter Without clicking a mouse button hold the cursor over the selected object As the cursor hovers near a control point or intersection you see a small circle This indicates where the cursor will snap when the mouse button is clicked Position the cursor on the upper left corner of the graphic Jor MOES Pre Oly 20 E atevograph Rees New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 33 DISCOVERY Lesson 4 Name Badge Step 5 Moving and Resizing cont d Click and start dragging Before releasing the mouse button press F2 to invoke the coordinates dialog This allows you to enter a coordinate for the final position of the reference point Positioning point E Cartesian Coordinates o 050 0 in p 350 0 in Polar Coordinates E 099 31 Angle 26 987 deg Z 0 000 0 in T relative coordinate cea Enter 05 into the X box and 95 into the Y box Since the relative coordinate checkbox is off the object s top left corner will be positioned at absolute X Y coordinate position of 0 050 0 950 as referenced from job zero in the lower left corner of the material Click OK or hit Enter to accept a l E Step 6 Importing a Graphic Click on File from the main pull down menu then click on Import The File Import Dialog Box appears New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 34 File impor Ei Look Fi Y Hama Badge Deny amp er F
109. ther side of the small rounded rectangle Choose the Delete object icon rad and click on the horizontal line segment through the word VALVE Note the blue and green contours are clockwise and counter clockwise closed contours respectively Black contours are open Step 8 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Control Panel Summary Step 1 Define the plate Define a new plate 8 by 6 Step 2 Create the guidelines Drag horizontal and vertical guidelines into the design into the precise positions as specified Step 3 Create the graphical elements Create an 8 by 6 rectangle for the panel border Create a rounded rectangle with dimensions of 6w x 3 5h x 0 25r at a center origin of 4 3 3 Create a rounded rectangle with dimensions of 2 2w x 0 7h x 0 125r at a center origin of 4 3 3 Snap center of smaller rounded rectangle to the midpoint of the upper side of the larger rounded rectangle Create a 0 125r circle at a center origin on 2 4 Duplicate four more identical circles to the right with 1 center to center spacing Create a 1 square between 2 2 and 3 3 Step 4 Type and place the text Type MASTER CONTROL center justified at 0 48 high in ARIAL font with baseline at 4 4 84 Type VALVE center justified at 0 4 high in US BLOCK 1L font with baseline at Y 0 4 Manually kern letters as required with the Ctl and Ctl key combinations Type MAIN center justified at 0
110. toe Maghi ii Top Ge T Timi resa Diss CE ce Job zero is by default in the lower left corner of the material Now we will set up some guidelines to help place the individual design elements k While dragging a guideline from the left ruler hit F2 to invoke the Precision dialog Click on the Select tool Type 2 5 in the X coordinate box This will move the vertical guideline to exactly 2 5 from the job zero e pre A Cr Y PLE 4 e pra adh 2 tomo E mig madera CEO ei New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 39 DISCOVERY Lesson 5 Basic Sign Step 3 Add Guidelines cont d Drag a guideline from the top ruler and hit F2 Type 4 5 in the Y coordinate box Drag another guideline from the top ruler and hit F2 Type 1 5 in the Y coordinate box Last drag another guideline from the top ruler and hit F2 Type 75 in the Y coordinate box Here s what the design should look like now reference letters excluded OD Step 3 Create and Place Graphical Elements Click on the Ellipse tool _ in the shapes toolbar Hit F3 for the Snaps dialog and click on the Grid and guide button ree Click OK Hover the mouse cursor over intersection A until you see the small red hint circle Click once Move the mouse cursor down and to the right to the guideline intersection B until you see the red hint circle again Click once more to place the ellipse Alternatively you can click at the first poin
111. tool Now you have all four corners created New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial 5 21 k NR USTRY Lesson 16 Sign with Long Plate Option Step 4 Add Corner Ornaments cont d Simply drag each corner ornament to its appropriate corner fitting each snugly against the borders Step 5 Set Up the Job for Machining lt p Click on the Tool properties icon e so we can set the tool properties This job uses the default Tool O assigned to the black color Click on the Properties button on the Tool Properties dialog Select 2D on surface from the pull down menu in the next Tool Properties dialog The depth should be set to 0 008 if you are using the nose cone Choose Island or Hatch fill and the desired overlap and hatching angle if using hatch fill You must assign a tool to the color black Simply select the color first and then click on the tool in the Available tools window This tool color association is stored with this job Click on the Machining tab The black tool Tool 0 should still be selected on the right The tool s specific machining properties are set in this dialog speeds spindle enable tool pause etc Select the XY and Z speeds by clicking on the speed o meter toolMeterButton bmp One more click cycles back to low to start the sequence again You can over ride the default speeds by clicking on the rabbit icon and entering your own values The spindle icon on the right should be enabled
112. tributes for new text by first selecting the existing text Then place the text marker where you want the new text to go It will have the same character height justification and font as the previously selected text Select the square and circle with arc text Select the Duplication tool Click in the center of circle for the copy origin reference Move the cursor to the right to location 5 5 3 25 Click again to place the copy Hit Escape to exit the Duplication tool Select the text LEFT and RIGHT Select the Duplication tool Click on the intersection between the two circles Move the cursor to the intersection at 5 5 4 0 Click again to place the copy Hit Escape to exit the Duplication tool Step 5 Envelope Fit to Shape On the Shape toolbox click on al to enter the Symbol Library Navigate to the Envelope directory and choose ARC SYB Lisy gt Symbol Library SYMBOLS 3 ENVELOP D MARKERS JJ Hy Symbok Place this symbol in the design and scale it down in size to roughly 1 square Place the envelope near the letter M Select the text MASTER CONTROL and click Convert o into curves on the Main Toolbox Select the letter M then add the arc envelope to the selection by Ctl clicking it with the left mouse button Click on the Envelope function s from the FX da toolbox Now the letter M has been distorted to fit the arc sumbol Select just the enve
113. u have set in this dialog This is useful for example if you need to leave this dialog and return to it later without first engraving the job Click Run to send the job to the engraver Click Cancel to exit this dialog Click Spooler to invoke the Windows spooler dialog where you can pause or delete jobs that Windows is processing for output to the engraver New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial 5 19 h CT MUSTRX Lesson 16 Sign with Long Plate Option Step 6 Engrave the Job Put the tool in the spindle and set the Z reference Position the work piece in the lower left corner of the machine with the long end of the material sticking out the back When the engraver is Ready to Receive click Run on the Machining dialog to send the job to the engraver You can start engraving on the 15400 When the first panel is finished a message on the pendant s LCD panel while it is receiving data by pressing prompts you to move the panel a certain amount in the Y up axis This is me Sen trono e can mou towards the front Follow the prompts and press start for each panel can increase and decrease the speed of the 15400 while it is engraving by pressing the up or right and down or left arrows on the pendant Engraving Tip Step 7 Save your Work Press Control S to save the file New Hermes Gravostyle 98 Tutorial Sign With Long Plate Option Summary Step 1 Choose the Engraving Machine We will use the IS40
114. unt of line spacing around the line David Daffner Repeat this line spacing for the line New Hermes Select any portion of the two lines starting with New Hermes Click on the Proportional Line Spacing Icon and enter 150 Hit Enter to apply Step 5 Working With Text On An Arc Click anywhere on the first line Click on blue vane of pinwheel Click on Text on Arc icon ps A dialog is presented informing you that you are about to enter Manual Composition Mode Once Giawo s te ES Entering in manual mode Mangas ml be pel ho D Ho undo avalible you start working in this mode you will be unable to return to Automatic Composition mode for the remainder of the job Click the Yes command button to accept The Arc Text dialog is displayed next This dialog give you two ways to define the arc dimensions and four ways to put text on the arc Hit Tab to put the focus on the Length Of The Arc Chord field Enter 4 This will leave 1 inch on either side of the plaque Hit Tab Enter 1 for the Arc Height Hit Tab This sets the arc curvature which Are Tex E a i Su E fioi EJ Fiset New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial can be previewed in the lower left box of the dialog Notice that the arc angle and radius are automatically calculated based on the previous two values entered Alternatively you could have entered the radius and angles if it would make more sense in your particula
115. ust double click on the arc text to select it and enter Aerea Ci ae Dani Ga ME text mode in one step n Appracgiation f Excallanca Far our Sandan Loyalty And Friendship Click on the Arc Text icon to bring up the Arc dialog The arc chordal length should still be 4 and the arc height should be 1 Change both the left start and HEW PERMES E taj right end angles to 65 from 53 13 Click on the green vane of the Pinwheel Change the a Es intercharacter spacing Si value to 110 Now doesn t that look better See figure at left Step 6 Aligning the Job in the Center of the Plaque There are a number of methods for aligning objects In the Industry and more advanced levels of GravoStyle 98 special Alignment tools are available In this lesson we will use the guidelines to approximate centering the job in the material Click on the top ruler and drag and drop a horizontal guideline near the center of the plaque Double click on this guideline to bring up the guideline editor New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 23 4 24 Lesson 3 Simple Plaque In Select Mode Ctl L to select all the objects Step 6 Aligning the job in the Center of the Plaque cont d Edit quide lines Position din Type 4 half the total material length into the position text box Other dialog boxes expect you to hit OK to apply changes Here you must remember to click Change to fix the l
116. ware to display the actual text rather than the variable name Click End to accept the list Step 4 Generate the Matrix Click on the Matrix icon dragging the mouse cursor in the grid Choose Axis Cutting equal to All Click OK to accept The finished example shows one name per plate on one piece of 8 x 6 material If necessary any plate can be edited Malm 16 Hem EN Hb sE Hb Y Hb Laps JE 22 on the blue pinwheel Select a 4 by 4 matrix by Total pad Total haghi Onest 000 0 n Sere tear 0 000 0 in haar culirg Hora C Puia fa All ode _ tres Step 5 Save your work 4 68 New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial Matrix with Variable List Summary Step 1 Define the plate Set the plate dimensions to 2 by 1 5 with automatic borders Step 2 Assign a variable Change the character height to 0 3 Click on the variable list icon wi on the blue pinwheel and click OK Step 3 Import the Text Click on the variable edit icon ad on the blue pinwheel Select import and find the text file of names Show State 1 and click End Step 4 Generate the Matrix di Es Click on the Matrix icon Ei on the blue pinwheel Select a 4 by 4 matrix Select All for Axis Cutting and click OK Step 5 Save your work New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 69 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 70 ISCOVERS Lesson 10 Complex Matrix Design Putting It All Together
117. wn list Choose Landscape orientation Click on the Properties command button Set the power and speed for your material using the black line item Click the Engraving Field tab in this dialog and set the size to 4 by 4 Click OK twice until you see the Print dialog Choose the following settings Print Range Selection Print to File none Center none Info none Scale 100 Step 5 Engrave Put your 4 x 4 material in the upper left of the engrave area at the intersection of the two rulers Press the Next File button and then the Start button on the laser engraver to begin the engrave process In the Pen Mode field choose raster only for the black color Select the second line of text and change to Filled contour view mode Click the Print icon and click OK to send the file to the laser engraver Press the Next File and the Start buttons on the laser engraver to begin the engrave process Step 6 Save your Work Press Ctl S to save the file New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 91 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 92 Lesson 13 Advanced Laser Engraved Plaque Using Vectorization Option In this lesson you will learn some advanced laser engraving techniques using GravoStyle 98 You will learn how to do both vector and raster laser engraving in one operation You will also learn to do reverse laser engraving GravoStyle Objectives Alignment tools Raster and vector laser engraving
118. wo rulers Press the Next File button and then the Start button on the laser engraver to begin the engrave process Select the second line of text and change to Filled contour view mode Click the Print icon and click OK to send the file to the laser engraver Press the Next File and the Start buttons on the laser engraver to begin the engrave process Step 6 Save your Work Press Ctl S to save the file New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 100 NOTES New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 101 DISCOVERY Lesson 14 WYSIWYRE What You See Is What You Really Engrave This tutorial shows how to use the WYSIWYRE function for viewing your job with photo realistic materials showing representations of actual New Hermes materials that can be purchased This exercise will also show how to perform a side by side comparison of the same job using different materials e nes bo pe e o GravoSiyie 98 A cut the rest GravoStyle 98 i above Ka A ut a ie e op Poo pi FT Objectives Use File Find Use WYSIWYRE Design Specifications File simple plate vnd Material Size 6W x 2H Creating the Design We will use the Simple Plate design from Lesson 2 to demonstrate WYSIWYRE c gga tutorial obs Step 1 Open the Job From the file menu choose Find This file utility helps you to find a file if you don t remember the directory in which it is stored In the navigation box on the left
119. y Layer if you want to segregate toolpath transfer by layer Or choose All the New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial 4 52 default to send all toolpath selected Generally you will ignore the Collate button and use the default Automatic Stock Feeder and Job Tool Pause You can enable the post processor to output a special command for an automatic stock feeder The icon to the right overrides the tool pause settings for all tools with a WS 020 Acrylic single control for the job to be transferred EE 0150 Acrylic Tool List You first select the tool from this list before modifying the tool s attributes These attributes include XY speed Z speed depth dwell spindle enable and tool pause OR Spooler OK Run Cancel Click OK to apply changes to this dialog If you Run subsequently click Cancel the settings are remembered the next time that you enter this Cancel dialog Click Run to actually process the job for test or to send to the port Click Spooler to invoke the Windows Print Spooler dialog From the Spooler dialog you can pause or cancel a job that is being transmitted to the table Before you click on the Run button make sure the machine is properly set up refer to the machine user s manual e Clamp the material e Use a depth regulating nose cone Put the cutter in the spindle e Set Z ref Adjust the engraving depth with the nose cone micrometer e Make sure the machine LCD reads Ready To
120. yle 98 Tutorial X 11 Appendix TOOLBAR FUNCTIONS BY LEVEL O Duplication Tools 2 O BBB sa f gH DOO Doo a A B C D Duplication Linear duplication Circular duplication Duplication on a curve Move object O RR Proportional scale Po qa a a Rotatation vale Stretch o for doc do Vertical mirror re RAS A Horizontal mirror Pole a 1 Mirror along axis ro EA E E Vertical alignment Po dele O LL Horizontal alignment New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial X 12 Wrapping Tools A D FERNE C F ME nee e e T po pm 114 Dt a pre eee New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial X 13 Appendix F1 F2 F3 F4 F10 Ctl 1 Ctl 2 Ctl 3 Ctl 4 Ctl 5 Ctl 6 Ctl A Ctl C Ctl L Ctl M Ctl N Ctl O CtHR Ctl S Ctl V Ct W Ctl X Ctl Z Del Help Precision dialog Snaps Preview Options XY View YZ View XZ View Engrave View ISO View 3D dialog Redo last operation Copy selection to clipboard Select All objects in select mode Open model file New file Open file Fast redraw Save file Paste selection from clipboard Redraw Cut selection to clipboard Undo last operation Delete selection New Hermes GravoStyle 98 Tutorial XX 1

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