hi everybody and welcome to ap laser workshop i hope everyone's having a fabulous monday here
today and getting your work week started off right um i also want to welcome everybody to us doing
this live youtube for the very first time we're hoping to start pushing out uh to do it this way
in the future just to make it a little bit simpler and easier for people to register and sign up for
the classes and really open it up to have more people join us today so what we're going to be
doing today is we're going to be working with another one of our rotary tools our our newest
and latest on on the market and we're going to be using a stainless steel arctic tumbler and we'll
be using the cir mark spray to actually engrave on it we'll also be working with our light burn
program and walk you through how to just kind of set up a real quick simple vector image there
so without further ado let's go ahead and jump over to my laptop here and let's get started
so the first thing i'm going to do is go ahead and open up my light burn program and the image that
we're actually going to be working with today as this little jpeg here and i got this jpeg from a
a program called dover publications and basically what dover publications
is it's a place to get a high quality clip art and things like that
it comes with a nice booklet showing you the images and also shows you a little cd-rom
that you can download all the images into your laptop so you can always save them for future use
so we're going to go back to light burn here and we're going to import in our image
oh great here and i figured we're getting close to halloween so a nice little skull image would would
probably be a little bit fun to do now what's nice about light burn is it does bridge both designing
aspects and an operating program into one platform it does a great job on tracing out vector images
and it's really nice again just to be able to design something or trace something in this
program and send it right to the machine so now that i've got my jpeg in here what i'm actually
going to do is i'm going to right click on my mouse and come right down here to trace image
so i'm going to zoom in here a little bit so we can kind of see and we can kind of see
this kind of purplish pink line going around showing us where our trace is at
you can always come down here to this threshold and you can adjust this more or less to try to
get a little bit of a tighter trace zoom in a little bit more i'm sure if you can see that
but when i bring this up we can see those lines kind of manipulating and coming in a little bit
um it does do a pretty good job of just bringing it in and tracing it without a whole lot of
adjusting so i'm gonna go ahead and hit okay here and then i'm going to move my traced image away
from my original image just like that so again we can see how we got almost
a carbon copy here going to go ahead and select my original one and delete that
and i'm going to select my image here and from here is where i'm just going to start sizing
it up a little bit make sure it's going to fit on my tumbler i did measure things out a little
bit beforehand and so i know i've got right around three inches three and a half inches to work with
as far as my placement goes so i'm going to come up here to the top left hand corner and the first
thing that i want to do is i want to click on my lock ratio button what that's going to allow me
to do is adjust my height and it will self self adjust my width here so i don't distort my image
at all so i'm just going to come here to my height i'm going to hit 3 and go ahead and hit enter
the next thing that i want to do is i want to go ahead and rotate my image
so my rotate is right here and so i'm going to rotate this a negative 90 degrees
so a little bit more there we go because the lip of our tumbler is going to be on the left hand
side here and then going to go ahead and i'm going to double click where my speed my power
is and this is what's going to allow me to adjust my speed my power i can tell it if i wanted to
do a line which will be cut if i wanted to do a fill which will be an engrave a fill
and a line so engrave and cut and do an offset fill so i want to make sure that i'm selected
fill i can adjust my interval here just like in rd works i can either do lines per inch so i could
type in 300 or i can do a line interval of a point zero zero three three three um another important
feature you wanna make sure is that you want this to say fill all shapes at once or fill groups
together and then we have fill shapes individually make sure fill all shapes at once is selected
if any of these other two are selected what's going to happen is it's going to engrave part of
the image and can jump around and especially with working with the rotary tool just basing on how it
spins and everything it can throw your engraving off having this fill all shapes at once will make
sure that it just does a continuous engraving i'm going to go ahead and hit ok here i'm
going to select my laser origin for left center again this is just my personal preference here
other customers prefer the center center or the the right center um any one of these
center locations is more than perfect to use again i just prefer the the left center now
um i went ahead and did a little bit of prepping beforehand so i've already engaged my rotary tool
um if you're setting this up for the first time you just want to make sure that your
machine is powered on and then you want to come up here to tools come down here to rotary setup
you want to make sure that you're selecting whether you're using a chuck rotary or a roller
and we're going to be using a roller you want to enable rotary and then you want to make sure that
your steps per rotation and your roller diameter are set we don't need to worry about object
diameter or circumference and again i've kind of set this up ahead of time but if not i'm going to
exit out of here and we're going to bring up our handy dandy little cheat sheet and so this here is
the rotary tool we're going to be using today our brand new black extender rotary tool i'm working
with a three-phase motor so i want my circle pulse to be 7505 and my roller diameter to be 2.62
our rotary and so we've got 7505 and we've got our 2.62 now typically once you've engaged this
in your light burn system and hit ok is when you want to go ahead and power off your machine
and go ahead and hook up your rotary tool and flip your switch if need be again i've already
gone ahead and done those steps so i'm going to go ahead and send my file over to the machine here
all right and we'll jump over to our machine
so again what we're using today is going to be an arctic tumbler it is a stainless steel tumbler and
i've already gone ahead and marked or sprayed it with my surmark spray the stir mark spray
that i'm using is going to be the lmm 6000 works great for a variety of different types of metals
brass copper stainless steel before you actually go out and buy the cert mark make sure that you
are are looking because they do carry different types um some specific to certain types of metals
so again you just want to make sure that you're buying the correct type now before spraying the
stir mark onto your product it's always a good idea to clean the tumbler ahead of time
what i do is i use a little bit of denatured alcohol along with some paper towel and i
basically just kind of drip it on there and wipe it off what that's going to do that's going to
get off any kind of oils or residues or anything like that that may get in the way of my engraving
so once i've done that and i've actually sprayed my surmark on here now this isn't like spray paint
you don't want to spray a lot of it on there doesn't need to be a real thick coating a nice
even light coating will work you just want to make sure you don't have any empty spots in here
to where it's spraying off to leave a the silver still shining through so again a nice even coat
um staying around four to six inches away and spraying it will help make sure that
that's getting coated evenly so after that i'm gonna go ahead and jump inside my machine here
and i'm going to go ahead and load up my rotary tool
now with this particular tumbler here very similar to our yetis is i've got a stamp
right here of the arctic logo so what i've done is i've actually measured out and figured out that
in between this t and the i is kind of my center positioning i'm going to go ahead and move my
laser head over and using my red dot just kind of ensure that i'm staying within that area there
i would bring that up to my top left
down just a little bit here
again if you're having trouble with getting your laser to go exactly where you're
needing it to do using the arrow keys you can press the speed button on the control panel
and slow that down a little bit again that also helps with the framing speed as well
especially with the rotary tool it makes it a lot smoother of a test speed
and look to it you can really kind of follow where it's going to be at nudge it over just
about there and i'm going to go ahead and hit my origin button and then go ahead and frame out
and we look good we're not going super big today so we'll go ahead and close our lid
and go ahead and hit start now it's just going to take a few minutes for that to run but in
the meantime we'll go ahead and jump back over to our computer and answer any questions you may have
feel free to type in any questions that you have in the chat dialog box there and i'll be
more than happy to answer them why this is running again just in case anybody is just now joining us
i kind of missed the beginning part here where i got this image from was actually a book
called dover publications available online on amazon they have a variety of different types
of things you can get real specific they have holiday things so christmas thanksgiving halloween
it has a lot of different other types too as far as like celtic art
and again just just a really great easy to use uh file um a place where you can get files from
um so i've got a michelle askin um how did i do the math for the art
um and did i have to do any kind of special equations no i did not need to do any kind
of special equations on this one here um i simply needed to match up my uh circle pulse
along with my rotor roller roller diameter uh to match with the rotary tool that i'm
using um and then it was just simply of just measuring out where i wanted my image to fall at
um i've been richard askin uh what do i use to clean the tumbler um i typically just use a little
bit of denatured alcohol um and a paper towel uh just kind of put it on there and wipe it off
rub it down just again make sure you get any of those oils or greases that may be on that tumbler
now sir mark is a great product again very easy to clean off a little bit of water
and a paper towel i'm just going to go ahead and use a little bit of windex here
some of my paper towels
there you can kind of see it i said just something very simple very easy to do
and i do see that we have a couple other questions on here um
and i've got craig um asking and he's uh new to laser engraving and welcome um asking the purpose
of the sir mark uh kirk with the co2 lasers on bare metal they do like to reflect off of that
uh so the sur mark is actually is what's creating a bond uh between the paint and the
metal so as soon as the laser hits it it's going to permanently bond that material to the metal
and the rest of it the access is just going to wipe right off
it's not going to stain your clothes or anything like that either
i have a lisa can you get different colors of the spray or does it all engrave black
i believe surmark does have a few different types of surmark the black is by far the easiest to use
um some of the other types that they sell are you have to mix up yourself
and the chemicals or the solution they want you to mix it with can be everything from ethanol can be
denatured alcohol and then it's a self-application as well whether it's painting it on um i just find
it again with the lmm6000 just a very quick simple straightforward process there and we'll go ahead
and leave this open a little bit longer today was kind of a quick video um like i said i just
kind of wanted to to show you the applications i know we've gotten a lot of questions over light
burn and how to do certain things in there again lightroom is a great program very easy to learn
does a great job with vector art we will be doing more videos over light burn as well
but again you can see how quick and easy it was just to bring in an image
trace it um and send it right to the machine all in one program
um i've got richard asking uh what focus lens um length am i using i'm actually using the two inch
lens um so i've got a two inch focal distance there the two inch lens is kind of like a
universal lens it works very well for a variety of different things from cutting to engraving on
different types of material when i get to a little bit more finer detail work i do like switching out
my lens um even running portraits i typically like to run that like an inch and a half lens um
if you haven't already i do believe we have some of our larger lens kits available for purchase
if you don't find it on our store please give us a call at 844-364-8211 and any one of my
service technicians will be more than happy to help you out with that as well
oh michelle was asking um what settings were was i using uh for my rotary tool i was using a 10 speed
and a 50 power and that is a great point to bring up too especially with stir mark ii you don't want
to hit it with too much power especially on flat metal what can happen is that metal can actually
start from the heat start bowing up and warping also you can get a over burn with it as well
going too much high power and almost get like a shadow line or an extra line
alongside like your attack store your image um i have craig asking how often do i use the two
inch lens versus the three or the four inch lens my two inch is pretty much my go-to lens
the three inch i do prefer to use when i'm doing glass work or i'm doing brick work and then my
four inch lens is typically only for large curved surfaces so things like the side of a whiskey
barrel for example or a casket we do have plans on getting some of those materials in here as
well to kind of showcase those um other aspects of the different lenses and again um if you've
seen some of our other previous videos um you have any questions about any of those processes there
we always have technicians standing by that are more than happy to help you out
our ap laser university is also filled with a lot of great information under our download sections
where you can find out different things as far as adjusting for tapered cops
um speed and power settings things like that okay well if we don't have any more questions
for right now we're going to go ahead and wrap it up again i do appreciate you guys all joining
us today i hope you found this informative um until next time you guys have a great day bye you